I agree with most of your points, but I have no idea why you think this attitude is specific to "the trailer-park variety" of white people. From what I've observed, the mockery and pre-judgment of Asian female-white male couples come from not just white people, but people of all races who otherwise think of themselves…

It's helpful to recall just how ghettoized the US still really is. Until college most of us exist in communities that look primarily the way that we do.

Hmm, I'm not sure what you are implying by education and household income. Most of the Asian-Asian couples I personally know are highly educated and have a higher-than-average household income. But I definitely agree that Jezebel posters are likely going on experiences circumscribed by the Brooklyn/Manhattan hipster…

It's not only true in Asia, it's also true in the US. I keep hearing these proclamations on Jezebel that ALL Asian American women prefer and are with white men, but it very much sounds like confirmation bias is at work there. I live in NYC and I see Asian American couples (not Asian tourists, not recent Asian…

It's bizarre to me that you are so insistent on proving the point that nobody really likes K-pop all that much and its few supporters are delusional Korean nationalists, but, like I said, people who go out of their way to completely undermine something as trivial as a country's pop culture output are usually motivated…

It seems like the "US debuts" of Asian pop groups are awkward efforts that are marketed with the hopes of breaking into the US mainstream - audiences which know nothing about K-pop, so naturally, these don't sell very well. It's a not reflection of the groups' existing fanbases, who already have the groups' Korean…

Well, that's the problem with an internet-voting system - it opens it up to anyone's interpretation of merit and relevance. What I don't understand is your insistence that these votes don't come from a genuine place of enthusiasm, but are some sort of concerted nationalistic effort to push Korean culture on the world.…

Oh, I agree that the overwhelming impact of Hallyu has been on other Asian countries. And it wouldn't surprise me if the majority of the votes for this video, apart from Korea, came from fans in those countries. But I don't doubt they are legitimate votes (so far as the rules of this internet voting contest go), as…

Unless one has some familiarity with East Asian languages, then no, I wouldn’t expect just anyone to be able to identify that as "obviously" Korean. However, one IS an idiot if they don’t know that there are Asian countries besides China and Japan, and dismissively calls that script “Chinese” or “Japanese” without…

I can believe that they won this award without attributing it solely to nationalistic-minded netizens. K-pop is not the international sensation that some seem to think it is, but it does have sizable fanbases in other countries – how do you think people learn about these bands? All K-pop groups have a very strong…

Uh, no. Nothing about these tweets indicates that they have any clue who Girls’ Generation are: that’s the source of their outrage. Their tweets aren’t expressing anger about Jenny Hyun; they're not accusing Girls' Generation of being racist. They’re angry that an “unknown,” “irrelevant,” “Chinese,”…

It's so funny, right? Julie Chen's before/after surgery pics have been circulating for years, and I remember my first reaction to them was, "well, nobody can say she got surgery to look more white." Regardless of her actual intentions, she doesn't look white. At ALL. It's BAFFLING to me that some people are saying…

Well, see, the problem with the (extremely common) argument of "Asians only excel in test-taking and are weak in critical thinking/leadership/creativity" is, how does that explain the majority Asian population at UC schools, with their race-blind admissions process? Their admission system doesn't just consider test…

When it comes to NYC, I really wouldn't characterize the discussion of ethnicity as a matter of being less "taboo/offensive," as if other people in other places are being oversensitive or something. It's just that a question relating to ethnic background takes on a COMPLETELY different tenor when it's being asked by…

If someone has an accent that stands out from the population in your area, I don't think it's unreasonable to guess that they are, in fact, originally from someplace else. But the point is that many people get this question based solely on their racial appearance and not their speech. The way you talk is a much more…

Even setting aside the interminable debate over whether Korean plastic surgery is "Euro-inspired," is Jezebel officially uninterested in fact-checking, to the point where it repeatedly ignores another article in its very own media network which debunked the "Korean beauty pageant contestants all had the same face due…

Maybe this was unclear—my comment about writers challenging themselves was more of a general response to the common defense of the extreme paucity of POC characters in TV and movies in general, which is usually expressed in comments similar to yours. (I think that this article, and to a greater extent, the Colorlines…

Well, the fact that people angrily react to the mere suggestion of including POC characters as a shallow concession to "diversity metrics" as if "meaningful, human experience" can only be expressed through white characters is part of the problem. Seeing more multidimensional characters like Tamayo would help dispel…

I'm really glad you brought this up. The actress, Katie Chang, is actually a quarter Asian. This is her.