if youre gonna be a koreaboo at least read up on our history and spread awareness of the tragedies that south korea has faced because of japan. stop glorifying japan’s history if you don’t know it in full.
ive lived my whole life hating my heritage because no one cared about south korea since kpop and kdramas weren’t popular back then. i lived knowing that people were cheering on a nation that committed countless war crimes (cultural genocide, raping hundreds of thousands of women, torturing/beheading/massacring innocent civilians) against my country and other asian nations. i lived in that shadow knowing no one cared about my culture and its history.
since korean culture is becoming so popular nowadays please at least know how badly south korea has been treated by japan and how this shit still affects south koreans today.
one last thing: do NOT say that the korean and japanese cultures are similar. im sick of hearing it and other koreans are sick of hearing it. japan tried to wipe out our culture and history in WWII when we were colonized by them.
here are some links:
Unit 731, a human experimentation death camp, primarily filled with Chinese and Korean citizens, absolved of all wrongdoing in exchange for the data they collected over 40 years of practice
Tag: genocide
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Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day by quietly remembering that Native Americans sent more aid to Ireland during the famine than Britain or the US.
specifically, it was the Choctaw nation that sent aid to the Irish during the famine
1. “more aid to ireland during the famine than britain” okay let’s clear this up, again– there was no famine, it was a genocide, commited specifically by the british. ireland was literally packed with food. the only crop that failed was the potato crop. the british had no problem with ships FULL OF FOOD leaving british ports on british ships from ireland to other places to make money. IT. WAS. NOT. A. FAMINE. IT. WAS. A. GENOCIDE. and that probably explains why britain didn’t “send aid”. britain was literally using the “famine” they manufactured to clear the land of indigenous irish people.
2. which lends poignancy and power to the attempt by the choctaw nation to send food to starving irish people.
3. there was much fanfair about this in the british press at the time, because of course the british government was lying to its own people about what they were doing. it’s convenient to blame natural disasters like “famine” when in fact it is mass murder– kinda like what’s going on in yemen right now. but to conclude, what didn’t receive a lot of fanfair in the british press is the fact that much of the corn and other food the choctaw nation attempted to send did not go to starving irish people, it was essentially hijacked and went to feed british pigs and livestock.
4. which is why every saint patrick’s day we remember the genocide (one of many the british attempted in ireland) of black ‘47. and we always remember the native americans who responded in such good will and with such generosity to starving people an ocean away from them.
And – all through primary school (until age 12) it was taught as a famine; only in secondary school did we learn that the British caused it deliberately. There’s a fair amount of Irish YA novels about the Famine (can’t remember titles off the top of my head), and they’re all pretty brutal with the facts of what happened. Not to mention most people’s great-grandparents probably lived through it – it’s not that far back.
Also there’s a monument to the Choctaw nation somewhere up the country for the help.
Here’s a link to an article about the monument
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