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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:


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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
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...
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