What the heck is wrong with being brown and black anyway?? I'm just confuse why the heck they view it as low people, can't they blame it on the sun? People's skin evolve that way to adapt harsh and hot climate.
They are so narrow-minded, I am brown and I like actually, make me look healthy and not pale
I think part of it stems from nobility vs working class back in the day, like in the dynasties? Even when it wasn’t towards foreigners but their own citizens.
Like the working class had darker skin due to working the harsher/rougher jobs outside in the sun and getting naturally tan, and nobility and higher status individuals didn’t normally work outside, so their skin was fairer. I think I read somewhere they linked darker skin to being ‘dirtier’ due to the fact most people in that time were working in fields or just generally working with materials that would normally be considered ‘dirty’ to nobility and higher classes, so they would strive to have farer skin to prove/show off their status. It was like propaganda to show the divide/rift in status and wealth and I think part of it is why darker skinned individuals tend to be thought of as ‘less’? I think this is just one aspect and like don’t quote me or anything cause I could be wrong. I also know it’s not just this as to why racism is so strong in Korea but I think this might be part of it - like it was past down generationally
I heard something like this about China too. There's also the fact that back people are very rare there compared to other places. In the western side we are way more mixed than there, they are little mixed even with Asians of other countries. They have such homogeneous looks that anything a little different pops out.
Some Koreans are racist as fk