Korean-Japanese Idols
Korean-Japanese Idols
I was looking to see if I could find any actors or actresses with mixed Korean&Japanese background. Its not easy to do on a search engine. Does anyone know of such people in any of the Kdramas or Jdramas? And my mixed, I mean one Japanese parent and one Korean parent, Not someone like Bae-sama, though he is a cool guy and all...
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The actrress/singer Sonim is actually of Korean descent but third-generation born in Japan...not of mixed heritage but a woman who speaks Korean and Japanese fluently...she appeared in KouKou Kyouhi 2003, Moto Kare as well as having a cameo appearance in the Densha Otoko Special
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it was sometime when they were preparing a single in Japanese or something but I may be wrong...Hey, its not like there is no one out there (Ito Yuna is truly mixed), but I'm sort of surprised there are no others...
I mean, I heard that Japanese people are culturally very exclusive, but I thought that was only against non-Asians, especially non-Whites. But Not even Korean people seem to b able to integrate their culture and community into Japan at all...Maybe I'm wrong.
I mean, I heard that Japanese people are culturally very exclusive, but I thought that was only against non-Asians, especially non-Whites. But Not even Korean people seem to b able to integrate their culture and community into Japan at all...Maybe I'm wrong.
"cultural isolation" and "racial purity" are themes that are well represented, historically, throughout japan's development. the modern time in which we live in is but one logical consequence of these historical antecedents. given the particulars of japanese history, did you expect anything different?shtyr wrote:Hey, its not like there is no one out there (Ito Yuna is truly mixed), but I'm sort of surprised there are no others...
I mean, I heard that Japanese people are culturally very exclusive, but I thought that was only against non-Asians, especially non-Whites. But Not even Korean people seem to b able to integrate their culture and community into Japan at all...Maybe I'm wrong.
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In some ways Japan is more racist against other asians... there's an old category of people in Japanese history called eta, which are, if I recall correctly, partially Japanese, partially other asian. They might have also been born in japan of foreign ethnicity, not sure.
But they were treated like dirt, banned from many things in the past, the Meiji constitution officially obolished the eta classification, but the racism isn't entirely gone.
All foreigners in Japan are discriminated against. White culture, especially english speaking, has the advantage of being "cool," and thus recently, whites are probably better off than asians.
Though racism is a lot less in japan than it used to be, it's still strong.
But they were treated like dirt, banned from many things in the past, the Meiji constitution officially obolished the eta classification, but the racism isn't entirely gone.
All foreigners in Japan are discriminated against. White culture, especially english speaking, has the advantage of being "cool," and thus recently, whites are probably better off than asians.
Though racism is a lot less in japan than it used to be, it's still strong.
okay i have a quick question....not technically about an idol but it concerns a japanese-korean model.
i know that japanese male celebrity yutaka takenouchi is currently in a relationship with hawaiian born japanese-korean model Brenda....i attempted to look up a photo of her out of curiousity but i couldn't find one...does anybody have one by any chance or, if not, could you point to a website that does? thanks.
i know that japanese male celebrity yutaka takenouchi is currently in a relationship with hawaiian born japanese-korean model Brenda....i attempted to look up a photo of her out of curiousity but i couldn't find one...does anybody have one by any chance or, if not, could you point to a website that does? thanks.
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