Tom Holland accused of racism by Koreans

[Morphine Prince 106,462]

Eh don't think this was racist. Tom just assumed he was Korean born and raised and was curious about how his English is so good. Innocent assumption. 

[dlioncourt91 765]

People get offended over everything now. Jeez.

[Harry 26,836]

Lol it's awkward but he was in Korea doing an interview for a Korean media outlet with someone also fluent in Korean. It's a very easy mistake for him to assume that the interviewer was ... Korean. I don't see how this is problematic. He was trying to compliment the guy and clearly wouldn't have asked the question if he knew that he was American.

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2 hours ago, Dominic Marc said:

You expect him to research each countries educational system and curriIculum? Who does that though when going on holiday or visiting somewhere?

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Not really, but like that's surface-level information to me? A cursory read on Wikipedia will yield plenty of chauffeur knowledge that will combat against the type of mini-backlash that Tom is facing. I don't expect him or anyone to read such material before visiting any place. I'm just saying that it helps to do that. That's all.

[OBEY 57,109]

The world is a ****ing mess

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47 minutes ago, Harry said:

Lol it's awkward but he was in Korea doing an interview for a Korean media outlet with someone also fluent in Korean. It's a very easy mistake for him to assume that the interviewer was ... Korean. I don't see how this is problematic. He was trying to compliment the guy and clearly wouldn't have asked the question if he knew that he was American.

preach

[Fernster7 7,923]

Yawn.

[Rifek 51,753]

Thank God he's hot 

[JGD 12,042]

Okay, but not when South Koreans can be very racist themselves.

Spoiler

http://www.scmp.com/news/asia/east-asia/article/2102143/south-koreas-first-black-model-faces-racism-nation-where-white

Most foreigners in the country are from China and Southeast Asia, migrant workers or women who marry rural South Korean men unable to find local spouses willing to live in countryside.

Discrimination against them is widespread. Many are openly mocked at public transport for being “dirty” or “smelly”, or refused entry to fancy restaurants or public baths.

A government survey in 2015 showed that 25 per cent of South Koreans do not want a foreigner as a neighbour – far higher than the 5.6 per cent in the US and China’s 10.5 per cent.

Mixed-race children are bullied at school and constantly taunted as tuigi, a derogatory term that literally means cross-bred animals.

“When I was playing with other kids at school, some mothers whisked them away from me, saying things like, ‘Don’t play with a kid like that’,” he said.

He was regularly stared at in public, with an elderly woman once asking him: “What are you doing in someone else’s country?”

 

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9 minutes ago, JGD said:

Okay, but not when South Koreans can be very racist themselves.

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http://www.scmp.com/news/asia/east-asia/article/2102143/south-koreas-first-black-model-faces-racism-nation-where-white

Most foreigners in the country are from China and Southeast Asia, migrant workers or women who marry rural South Korean men unable to find local spouses willing to live in countryside.

Discrimination against them is widespread. Many are openly mocked at public transport for being “dirty” or “smelly”, or refused entry to fancy restaurants or public baths.

A government survey in 2015 showed that 25 per cent of South Koreans do not want a foreigner as a neighbour – far higher than the 5.6 per cent in the US and China’s 10.5 per cent.

Mixed-race children are bullied at school and constantly taunted as tuigi, a derogatory term that literally means cross-bred animals.

“When I was playing with other kids at school, some mothers whisked them away from me, saying things like, ‘Don’t play with a kid like that’,” he said.

He was regularly stared at in public, with an elderly woman once asking him: “What are you doing in someone else’s country?”

 

How did you get the tweets embed?

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3 minutes ago, Lanius said:

How did you get the tweets embed?

I clicked the "see more" button/down arrow thing on the tweet and selected copy link to tweet.  Paste it onto GGD but wait for it to embed before pressing return.

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If people are really getting offended by this... yawn.

[uo111 5,265]

13 hours ago, Lanius said:

 

I wouldn't say he's racist but he definitely made an ignorant/problematic statement. Telling Asians that "they speak really good English" or "where are you from? no, where are you REALLY FROM." when they were born and raised in America is a micro aggression.

He was talking to a Korean in Korea.

It's not a micro-aggression to assume that a Korean in Korea is from Korea, and learned English as a second language, and then compliment that. It's just a misunderstanding.

 

If a white person was born and raised in China, and learned Chinese and English, and then came to America, and a Chinese person complimented their Chinese, would that also be a microaggression in your mind?

 

You need to be able to discern a real microaggression from a misunderstanding if you don't want people to roll their eyes at you. I'm not saying that to be rude. I know microaggressions are real, this just isn't one of them.

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4 minutes ago, uo111 said:

He was talking to a Korean in Korea.

It's not a micro-aggression to assume that a Korean in Korea is from Korea, and learned English as a second language, and then compliment that. It's just a misunderstanding.

 

If a white person was born and raised in China, and learned Chinese and English, and then came to America, and a Chinese person complimented their Chinese, would that also be a microaggression in your mind?

 

You need to be able to discern a real microaggression from a misunderstanding if you don't want people to roll their eyes at you. I'm not saying that to be rude. I know microaggressions are real, this just isn't one of them.

White people don't face micro aggressions. Here's a interesting video to watch.

 

[Lion Heart 15,041]

This is a literal nothing-burger. 

I'm getting sick and tired of deranged SJW making a fuzz about nothing.