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12:14 pm - 05/11/2012

SHINee ignites RACIST scandal with anti-Native American performance



Boy band "SHINee" from SM Entertainment has been spotted being RACIST in a new performance in Fukuoka, Japan.

The boys are seen in the beginning being attacked by some supposive Native Americans who are dressed in tacky and stereotypical native outfits. They are then placed in shackles and taken captive by these backup dancers who are mocking the Native American culture. They make calls reminiscint of the time when Native Americans were jokes and ridiculed as barbarians. Onew and the boys then continue to dance with them in a Native-mocking fashion that is both untalented and unattractive and uncouth because of its racist undertones.

The video has already garnered 3 dislikes and it's becoming a major controversy on places like Twitter where one user said, "SHINee bein racist as fuck what else is new" and "u think after korea recognized their racism when i made my first editorial they change? no they just find another culture to degrade"


Another fan cam can be seen here:


smh


source - Tay Symone (ifuaskedmeto), Video One and Two and My Twitter

SMH at this... didnt Korea get the message the first time around???? Japan don't need this racism
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uledy 11th-May-2012 04:07 am (UTC)
LOL girl, you funny. Apparently you've never been non-Japanese living in Japan.

(and you never know about your biases...i thought my babies were saintly too now look what happened...)
kamelover101 11th-May-2012 04:12 am (UTC)
My parents are foreigners (of a darker complexion) who lived in Japan for 15 years, and my dad had a thriving salary man life were he interacted with clients and friends on a daily basis.

My mom was befriended by everyone in her neighborhood.

There wasn't an iota of racism..

I know that's not the case everywhere tho
uledy 11th-May-2012 04:15 am (UTC)
I know that's not the case everywhere tho

It sure isn't and it definitely wasn't the case for me.

I'm glad your parents had a good experience, though. Nothing's worse than feeling racial or ethnic prejudice in a foreign country, especially in one that's so ethnically homogenous. Were you born there (sorry all up in your business)?
kamelover101 11th-May-2012 04:20 am (UTC)
Well yea I didn't want to generalize there, but maybe we were just lucky to have not witnessed racism ...lol idk.

And no, I was not born in Japan, my grandmom made my mom fly back to my country to have me =_= still bitter to this day.

I feel really bad for you if you had to witness racism :( I'm sorry.

I'm from India btw.
uledy 11th-May-2012 04:23 am (UTC)
Oh, it's fine. I'm Black living in US, Jpn was nothing. You encounter stuff like that everywhere.

But dag mom! Couldn't she have waited? You could be living it up in Jpn! Think you'll move there?
kamelover101 11th-May-2012 04:27 am (UTC)
Haha, we moved to the US after I was born, though we lived in SoCal which is pretty much free from racism, so I guess I was just lucky.

I hope that you have recovered from those experiences tho :( Why do ppl have to be s judgemental idek. =_= we're all humans gwah.

Well even if I was born in Japan idt i would have gotten citizenship so its ok...but I just don't get the fun of telling everyone i was born in Japan *sigh* haha

Idt we'll be moving back there, my dads business got hit from the slump and he was doing rly bad there, so that in part contributed to our move.

We're muslims, so yeah, not much halal (stuff we can eat) food in Japan. We live in Malaysia now. XD
uledy 11th-May-2012 04:40 am (UTC)
Dag! How many countries have you lived in? You must have had some interesting experiences and gained some unique insights. Well, I'm glad that your fam was able to get out of Jpn before your family got hit too hard.

TBH, I don't feel bad about any of my experiences. I embrace them. I think without them, I wouldn't have such a strong racial and cultural identity, or at least I wouldn't have developed it so soon. So, no worries ^__^

kamelover101 11th-May-2012 04:45 am (UTC)
Ummm XD *counts on hand* I've lived in India, the US, and Malaysia, also Japan (just for a year though ;_;) My parents and older sisters (who are 7 years older than me) have also spent quite a long time in Hong Kong (my sisters were born there) and Japan... sooo yeah, quite a lot @_e

And yeah, growing up in different places makes me appreciate other cultures more, which is why I probably love eating lots of different food that most Indians would scurry away from, or learning different languages (I know 5)

But yea...I think you're stronger than most. I'm sure if I had experienced racism, I would have curled up in a corner and never gotten up again (;_;)
Soo...I admire you TT_TT It must have been hard though...
meiachii 11th-May-2012 04:42 am (UTC)
lol I'm actually agree with you on so many of your comments over here. I already experienced some racist stuff before even going there. Even when I visited there the last time, it wasn't so bad as it did recently.

Then again, not everyone are angelic as we think. I love the boys very much, but this is just plain disappointing...
uledy 11th-May-2012 04:19 am (UTC)
*looks at username*

*recalls previous comments*

I'm not so inclined to believe anything you say
uledy 11th-May-2012 04:30 am (UTC)
Let's not take it that far, I don't need your IP...

It just sounds completely ridiculous to say that almost no one in Jpn is racist (unless that was a joke). Either you've got extreme blinders on, you're of a more "acceptable" ethnicity/race to many Japanese people, or you live in a freaking oasis if you hold true to your previous statement.
uledy 11th-May-2012 05:17 am (UTC)
Oh, I see. I can't speak to whether or not that's how they truly are, but I will say there are fewer who are as overtly racist (but, tbh, I don't follow many mainstream Japanese musicians and I don't look into idols' activities enough to speak any further).
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