“You possibly can see she’s so uncomfortable…”
Korean comic, actor, and YouTuber Moon Sang Hoon (identified for cameo roles in reveals like Extraordinary Legal professional Woo) has been hit with criticism for cultural appropriation in an change with aespa‘s Giselle.
Lately, Giselle and Karina appeared on Moon Sang Hoon’s YouTube channel, and there was a state of affairs of a faculty setting and being lecturers.
At one level, Karina left, leaving Giselle and Sang Hoon collectively to proceed the skit.
In the course of the video, Giselle flaunted her multi-lingual expertise by displaying immediately switching from Korean to Japanese…
Earlier than immediately switching to fluent English.
Moon Sang Hoon then switched to English, utilizing phrases that shortly sparked anger amongst followers.
Most followers couldn’t assist however reward Giselle for her language expertise.
this entire scene is so humorous and giselle simply casually flexing that she is polyglot is my favourite factor to observe like switching from korean to japanese to english to french and to spanish??? you go queen pic.twitter.com/zGBln4iJsl
— 13 ✿ (@uchgaeri) October 31, 2024
Nonetheless, many netizens hit again at Moon Sang Hoon for his response as a result of he had a “Blaccent” (Imitating the methods Black individuals communicate) all through.
Followers shared their anger at how normalized this sort of factor appears to be and the way the actor switched to the accent instantly when it got here to talking English. Others additionally identified how Giselle didn’t reply and even appeared uncomfortable with the interplay.
his fast blaccent when talking English is killing me 💀 https://t.co/RQRdkAGfQ0
— kim | SUPERSONIC (@blacckpop) October 31, 2024
The look of distaste on her face
— 𝙳𝚎𝚎𝙽𝚊 (@_Blue_Moonn_) November 1, 2024
south korea’s obsession with african american tradition must be studied. they take as they please however on the identical time will not hesitate to look down on any individual of colour. what’s worse is that it is normalized to the purpose that they will not discover any fault on this video. https://t.co/QW7fY7gVnC
— Okay 🍉 (@cxokira) November 1, 2024
it’s unattainable for them to only say hello like a traditional individual why should you immediately swap on the stereotypical compelled blaccent https://t.co/wQiRcX3pLR pic.twitter.com/dlKuECmavq
— sol 🎀 (@gunpanchu) October 31, 2024
You possibly can see she’s so uncomfortable 😭
— Follyyyy (@wtffolly_) November 1, 2024
“oh forreal what up dawg” https://t.co/fM8S3GGUx8 pic.twitter.com/p9qkkeEzIz
— ☆ rin (@127HIVEMIND) October 31, 2024
Netizens have shared their anger on the fixed cultural appropriation and stereotyping Black tradition.
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