Asian (specifically South Korean) transracialism is a far bigger problem than thought of.
Why? Because many do not actually consider themselves transracial(It’s the minimum) but show “symptoms” of it in their DRs:
The practice of modeling their own personal appearance is not understandable. Even changing names and sometimes even profiles (where they have lived on etc) basically creating an alter ego and dream self/dream past.
But they often make themselves east Asians , at least half or fully.
On one side I heavily criticise this but on the other side I think that this is unfortunately a hidden self belief of “adjusting” themselves to Kpop. You see how people complain that non Korean artists shouldn’t be in kpop? It is all because they do not fit the average image of an East Asian person. People think that a fully and clearly non EA person is like a “fish out of water”. That they might lower the visuals of the group or the industry overall. It’s like a fetish without the segsual connotation to it.
There was a video made by a YouTuber, I can’t find it but I found out another similar one that said the similar things. And the argument is always that they risk wasting time(especially if they start training older, many SKorean trainees themselves “waste” many years into it) and facing discrimination. But it’s like that for almost everything all over the world with any person who becomes a minority in preferred country. If everyone acted on that, there would absolutely be no revolutionary people to look up to. People who “pass” as South Koreans to the international eye, are far more allowed. Think of light skin Vietnamese and Thailandese people. Because it’s still passable as “fetishizable”.
Anyway, these people who do DR, just feel like they would be uncomfortable in their own skin and body in such a fantasised environment, and that’s why they make themselves Skoreans, Chinese American, half Chinese half Thailandese etc. Me too, when I think of my ideal life, it all comes in a package or improved appearance.
Personally? I don’t do DRs, I don’t even know how they are done, but I fantasize a lot and sometimes get “help” from DR promos/scenarios, many times I fantasize being a whole other person with different skin colour, born and grown up on the other side of the world, but if I think “Ok, let’s seriously fantasise a bit actually putting myself in it!” I can barely purposely force myself to change such things.
DR means “Desired (alternate) reality” right? , so you DO desire to actually be East Asian, at least in the reality in which you are a kpop idol. Maybe not in your others DRs as you have “confidence” in yourself.
You are literally inserting your real world deepest concerns and insecurities in your fantasy that you do hardly claim doesn’t have those problems regardless if you are a minority or not. (You can clearly be a minority without facing “problems” for it).
For this reason I truly hope that you all find peace upon yourself. It’s your DR, right? You can literally scripts that things such as discrimination etc do not exist at all.
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