Ep 42: On Diaspora Supremacy w/ Eastern Bound

So it's really, really cringe to see Korean Americans make fun of South Koreans.

Or like really like brain rot, like anti-Korean takes like plastic surgery and suicide and stuff.

Or hyper capitalism or whatever.

Even with like, like they don't even add the nuances.

Like they don't say, oh yeah, there's high plastic surgery, but 50 to 40% of it is foreign.

You know, they don't add these little details.

We like at our podcast, we go of our way to get these little details and share them, you know.

We don't come off like we're trying to be an authority either.

We're coming off like we want to learn and you can learn with us.

That's our whole, like, take.

It reminded me of this one creator.

I forgot her name.

Nuri?

Well, she was all like, I don't...

See, like, Koreans, they're actually kind of backwards.

Like, they don't even have words for, like, intersectionality.

And they don't understand what it's like to be a Kyopo.

They don't understand what it's like to be a Korean in America.

Whereas we have the context.

The argument

basically is Korean Americans that don't live in Korea talk too negatively about Korea without knowing the language.

We don't know the culture or the history, and we only benefit from looking Korean.

when we left or our parents left they left a korea that was in a disparaged state and ravaged from the war our parents and our grandparents brought an outdated version of korea to the states i would actually say that koreans have an outdated and archaic way of thinking and perceiving what it means to be korean i do see a lot of korean americans talking mad shit on this app and in real life too a lot of koreans especially the older generation like flatten korea into trauma of beauty standards k-pop misogyny plastic surgery but they also act like we don't talk shit about our country which are all valid critiques that we're not only critiquing in korea but also in america as well i think i've seen many different expressions of this like i shouldn't even say i'm hate maxing truly i'm critique maxing On the flip side of all of this, I do see Korean Americans, and I have met Korean Americans, try to eradicate the Korean-ness in them and assimilate so hard.

To act like Korean Americans have no right to critique Korea just because we live outside of Korea willfully misunderstands what diaspora means.

I think we Korean Americans, when we have these conversations in English, I don't even know if Korea has intersectional language like this because this has been developed through many diasporas.