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Comment on SNSD boob dance by TW

TW — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 22:26:17 +0000

Of COURSE Korean girls are going to copy that dance. They copy every pop dance move, no matter how risque. Even young children imitate sexual ritual mating dance, and sexy agassi can do ANY sexually provocative move on MC Yoo’s show. And society pretends it is innocent.

Comment on Korean Moms are Scary by Subho

Subho — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 02:23:15 +0000

Wow … its so cute and funny

Comment on Yuna says Be White by Jay Lee

Jay Lee — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 04:31:47 +0000

I hope you guys don’t think that I am attacking Yuna Kim because I am not. I adore her immensely just like all her other fans, I have jumped on her band wagon and I intent on stay seated enjoy the journey with her and I will always be there even if the wheels have fallen off the cart. What I am simply saying is that I do not want her to damage her own brand and instead of the old adage that a person that seeks opportunities must always look towards the West I would like to remind people that now is a case of looking everywhere and especially to the East and be always true to yourself and accept yourself for who you are. It is one thing to make oneself look prettier but quite another story altogether when one is doing it to look like another race.I did not read Wendy’s comments prior to my earlier emails but now that I have I agree with her completely. Contrary to what I said before in my earlier emails I believe the Japanese are denifitely doing it to look more like Europeans just take their cartoons for example none of the cartoon characters resemble any Asian features – all very Western looking and when I first look at the cartoons I saw people’s reaction like what the #2*&? Is this Japanese is it realistic? Now one can easily argue the motive for doing it is purely for commercial purposes but then again the Japanese did declare during World War II that they are not Asians they regard themselves as Whites which is beyond ridiculous to say the least. Now I do not mean any offence to the Japanese people but I am simply stating the facts and these facts can be traced back to history.

Jay Lee

When I wrote my earlier emails I did not read though what Wendy was pointing out what now that I have I completely agree with her.

Comment on Yuna says Be White by Jay Lee

Jay Lee — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 16:44:21 +0000

And in case anyone is wondering no my mum is not a racist. When she tells my sisters to keep their skin fair she simply wants them to be acceptable by men especially if they are Chinese (primitive thinking). As has been mentioned in my earlier email that traditionally Chinese men prefer their Chinese wives to have fairer skin complexion and that this ideology or shall I say idiotlogy will continue to exist and there is nothing I can do about it. I believe the Vietnamese women are safeguarding their skin complexion in Vietnam also just like a lot of their Asian cousins elsewhere in the world like sisters in Australia. What can I say ….. but one thing is for certain that I would like to think that Yuna is not sending the wrong message to the masses at large.

Hoping for someone’s reply.

Jay Lee

Comment on Yuna says Be White by Jay Lee

Jay Lee — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 16:13:05 +0000

I’m from Australia and a big fan of Yuna Kim I regard her as one of our local super stars here like my idols: names you may not have heard of before: cricketers like Allan Border, Steve Waugh and Ricky Ponting and Olympians like Kierin Perkins , Grant Hacket and recently Ian Thorpe. I love Olympic champions and great international athletes period regardless of backgrounds. Now before I talk about the ad I would like to say that I am Chinese Australian and my mother would always tell my sisters to stay out of the sun so they do not look too dark and ugly – so that their skin complexion would look very fair and make them prettier. But at no stage did my mum or aunties ever say to my sisters or cousin sisters to try and look like westerners. I Guess this is like the English expression that “gentlemen prefer blonds” and our Asian cultures may have probably demanded that our men should seek women with the lighter complexion. Because this line of thinking has been in existence in China since time began – like thousand of years ago. And since Korea, Japan, Vietnam, Malaysia and Singapore for example is so close to China the influence may have initially derived from there – atleast I like to think so for Yuna’s sake. Otherwise it does not look good on her, it is like she is implying that her own race is inferior to others.
I mean the name “Yuna Kim” sells and she is tryng to sell the product(Be White Smoothie) to the female population in Korea but may be some of her obssessed male fans might have thought that it is cool to do what Yuna is doing without thinking too much about it. What makes is worse is that Smoothie King does not mind either – especially not about the extra cash they are generating from the male population- to them it is more money for them (isn’t that what is all about these days?) But yes it can easily be interpreted in the West that what Yuna is doing is portraying the image that Koreans love to make themselves look like westerners. May be the only way to find out is from the horses mouth – Yuna herself because I sure would love to know the truth.

Jay Lee

Comment on Kim Yuna vs Mao Asada in speaking English by admin

admin — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 01:21:18 +0000

I guess you didn’t watch the video. Yuna speaks English, Mao knows some words. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder so let’s just say they both are cute

Comment on Kim Yuna vs Mao Asada in speaking English by Kim

Kim — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 21:59:05 +0000

Mao is pretty, a better athlete and speaks English better. Plus she’s not a boring robot.
Mao wins.