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No. 1488647

Thread about all Asian ethnicities and nationalities
All asian nonnas are welcome
Thread rules
>do not race bait
>no religion shaming
>be respectful that not every Asian country has same laws
>talk about your frustrations

No. 1488652

nasi lemak represent

No. 1488663

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>>1488652
nasi goreng here. my sister…

No. 1489129

i'm a shukti maach / dried fish variety of asian. whats a food or ingredient thats popular in your region that you're not a fan of? lets discuss

No. 1489145

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>>1489129
i'm a disgrace to the entire continent but i honestly cannot stand peppers and anything spicy. i hate spicy paste and i hate feeling like my face is on fire all the while leaking. it's really not fun for me at all, but i'll endure it quietly if the food is especially delicious…
another question to exchange, what are your preferred methods of eating? as in, with your hands, fork and spoons etc, or chopsticks? i was raised on silverware but i just use my hands anyway to autistically absorb everything including the texture. it enhances the flavor somehow and just is more comfortable to me. i'm so westernized my weeb acquaintances knew how to use chopsticks and i still don't, probably never will

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>>1488652
>>1488663
my sisters can i please join you….

No. 1489307

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>>1488652
>>1488663
>>1489161
ahh my fellow SEA nonnies! i'm so happy beyond words!

No. 1489308

I have a question to ask as a non korean ?
Korean Manhwa's are unique in that I never seen this many series where material wealth is often such a big factor, yes characters often start out poor but the end goal is always to get money(not just to live comfortably but to be wealthy)
like I can't imagine a Japanese series where the MC's "drip" is an important factor for the story

how much of this materialism extend to general korean society

No. 1489379

>>1489308
Not a koreanfag but I see it a lot in chinese web novels and manhuas too. Also in online novel platform popular in SEA (e.g Dreame). There are perhaps a subgenre of those so-called 'revenge' story where the MC is a desitute and abused failure of a person until it's revealed that they are secretly rich or they manage to snatch themselves a CEO. From that point on, the story revolves on how the MC flaunt their wealth and using it to get back at people who wronged them. I hate this materialistic shit.

No. 1489394

>>1489379
interesting, we see a lot of urban types do this as well, this culture of "flexxing" their material wealth such as cars and brand name clothes
my father calls it "khusra"(eunnch) behavior

No. 1489404

>>1489394
paki-chan…..

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No. 1489433

>>1489427
kessi ho?

No. 1489443


No. 1489446

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>>1489443
spoiler broken, now our top secret convo is leaked

No. 1489527

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>>1489446
don't worry bhan, I just had forgotten

No. 1489547

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>>1489527
shukriya bhen♡

No. 1489551

Thread pic goes massively hard

No. 1489552

>>1489551
>a bunch of surgically altered Koreans and two token middle eastern girls for a fashion shoot is supposed to be "badass"

No. 1489602

>>1489307
i feel like an imposter… my family is from SEA but i am an ABC…. i want to be reconnected with my roots

No. 1489986

if you're an ABC you don't belong in this thread, srry
>>1489602

No. 1490159

Not gonna lie but this is a shit thread

No. 1491175

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Is korean culture really as fucked up as manhwa makes it look? there hasn't been a single korean comic that I've read, regardless of genre, where korea isn't depicted as the worst shithole imaginable with seemingly the worst aspects of western and eastern cultures

No. 1491189

>>1491175
Having your MC go trough rough circumstances while maintain a hopeful attitude makes them look inspirational, that's just my theory tho

No. 1491458

>>1491175
It's a mix of soap opera plotlines with whatever brand of NLOGism the author wants to sprinkle in. The MC can get revenge, but they need you to know that the MC is a Mary Sue first and foremost.
But yes, Korean culture is shit, though not quite as shit as your picrel for most of the population.

No. 1491512

Does anybody even do really long hair anymore?

Tower princess on how I saw a few girls on YouTube

I liked the sharp look of Asian tomboy though

Sorry for vid related, that's not even really as long as hair can get(lolcow.farm/rules)

No. 1491594

I also have a question about manwha. Whenever I read romance manwha from Korean creators, the man is always drawn like 9 feet tall and 6 feet wide. These are almost always from female creators and seem to be aimed at women, is there a preference for gigantic men in Korea?

No. 1491635

>>1491175
Nah it’s really not, the western media constantly tries to report it as being this terrible place and tries to make it look as bad as possible, partly out of racism and western superiority complex. Sure it has its social issues and culture clash as any country of 52 million people on the other side of the world will have, but generally it’s much cleaner, safer, more civilized (at least on a face to face basis) and convenient than the west. 99.9% of the people I met and interacted with were polite and pleasant, I never had any trouble. In fact, I find Korean men way more more polite than Japanese men.

When I went to Tokyo I felt less safe, as some of the men there were actually starey, felt malevolent and creepy, and I kept worrying about what would happen if I passed out from the heat (it was like 38C while I was there and on the subway it was incredibly hot) I was starting to think I was gonna get molested, raped or even dragged off if I fainted on the train and I ended up having a panic attack.

Anyway I went to Seoul and the Korean countryside in 2018 for 6 months and it was fantastic, makes living in the west feel like absolute shit tbh, I wish I could go back. Miss the food and the shopping, especially the skincare and makeup stores, like you wouldn’t believe.

No. 1491638

>>1491594
Pretty sure height is generally attractive around the world, no? Anyway most Manhwa drawings are intentionally exaggerated and drawn to look like supermodels with extremely long slim bodies and tiny heads. It’s just an idealized image and exotic to Koreans, same as huge eyes and boobs with Japanese.

No. 1491642

>>1491635
Oh and I think with regards to Korean manhwa authors depicting Korea as bad, Koreans in general are quite dramatic about social issues and tend to get very riled up about injustices. In Korea for instance, if you are a celebrity and someone says you are rude to staff members or were a bully in school, or even tat you just smoked and drank when you were in your teens etc, you automatically get cancelled and pretty much everyone hates you. They’re just generally very dramatic about ‘bad behavior’ in people.

You have to exaggerate to make a story interesting, most Koreans perception of the west comes from Hollywood movies so they probably think America is some utopia full of skinny attractive model looking people, they don’t really understand how bad it is. There of course have been a few shocking crime cases in recent Korean history but they pale in comparison to even everyday American news stories tbh.

No. 1491647

>>1491638
nta but I notice it as well, most women prefer taller then but SK artists seem to really exaggerate it, to the point it comes across as ridiculous

No. 1491767

>>1491635
>>1491642
So that's why feminism is banned in SK and date rapes at clubs are almost a common accurance? SK is a shit hole for women. Let's not attempt to sugar coat it.

No. 1491915

>>1491638
ayrt that makes sense but it's just Korean romance manwha in particular that has these insane size differences. The lead man is always like Guys from Beserk sized

No. 1491983

>>1491642
America has a new disaster every day and mass shooting every week, but the korean girl being raped by 40+ scrotes nearly every day for over a year, abused by her own father, blamed and neglected by every adult around her, harassed by the parents of her rapists "for ruining their lives" that they even came to her school to harass and embarrass her, and even the courts weren't on her side, don't pale in comparison. Shit goes down in the states often, but when shit goes down in Asia, it truly goes down.

No. 1492057

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>>1491175
My faviaorate thing about Manhwas is how often they descent into gang wars in high schools
>How to Fight
>Lookism
>God of High School
>Manger Kim
>Reality Quest
>Quest Supremacy
>Study group
>Mercenary Enrollment
>The Boxer

All of these series despite their initial premises devolved into korean gang wars shonen fights after a few arcs, picrel are the protagonists from three separate manhwas mentioned above but you literally can't tell the difference

No. 1492065

>>1492057
Nta but I will never understand how in lookism they went from
>fantasy manga with slice of life in which a fat guy wakes up as a hot guy
To
>there's no fat guy anymore, hot guy is here 24/7, did you see this 200 parts side quest and backstory about these dudes that are barely interacting with main character btw? Special episode centered on the theme of shit and prison!!

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>>1492065
Yeah it's pretty insane. And also a pity that the main plot line about this problem quickly got dropped and it's jsut straght out "look how great it is to be pretty and rich and have powerful friends". It could've said something meaningful, like you haven't seen real Hell Joseon until you learn about their extreme beauty standards culture and the effort that they take to fulfill numerous immutable traits for social status. Parents in SK engage in arms races with their children against other parents as they preform numerous plastic surgeries and hook them up on HGH.

An entire country with the worldview & ideology of incels

No. 1492079

>>1492069
This is really fucking sad, and truly, this shit of starting with a story that could've been meaningful and then making it about anything else or trying to make plastic surgery seem like something common and that's totally not fucked up is just miserable.
It makes me tinfoil thinking that maybe the artists want to criticize the society but they either get boycotted or told to change the plot to something else or something bad will happen like getting censored or the sorts.
Because this happened as well in "true beauty" in which a girl learns to do makeup because she's "ugly" without it, and you see her struggles with having to learn all of these trends but then the story isn't even about how makeup isn't necessary if you want to have a happy life and such. If I remember correctly the artist/author goes to the "w-well, makeup will enhance your true beauty" cope.

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>>1491983
I wonder what might happen to Korea in the coming generation, their brithrate I think is the lowest in the world and their population might see a significant decline but people will still be having children, if the next generation will be mostly the children of mentally healthy people we might see some societal improvement

No. 1703441

I'm glad more foreign women are speaking about their experiences in Korea, it might help people actually realise the extent of korean misogyny.

No. 1703482

>>1703441
Korea seems to be a fucking shit hole, why is anyone working in that country? This will probably be seen as racebait, but whenever I see videos like the one you posted I keep thinking that maybe I don’t really want to go to Korea, China or Japan even for sightseeing, it seems like asking for trouble at this point, like why even go there if just for the fact that I look different to them, I will get purposely mistreated and/or even assaulted? And yeah, I know that pornsickness is a pandemic that will never stop fucking up the world, but jesus, it’s crazy how even the most low end media they also produce has at least some scenes with sexual assault, it really shows how common it is, I would rather go to the Arab Emirates alone, which is something I’ve done before (It’s not an amazing experience either), than go to China, Japan or Korea alone.

No. 1703560

>>1703482
Hell I can understand people going to China for job related reasons, but going to Korea and Japan longterm seem like massive mistakes and driven purely by coonsermism.

No. 1703631

>>1703482
>>1703560
the thing is, this happens to both local women and foreigns. The problem is that because shame is ingrained in asian culture so you don't hear about all the sexual violence that occurs there hence why they're reported to be "safe countries".

No. 1721223

>>1703441
>>1703482
Living in the west I get sexually harassed catcalled daily and have even been physically grabbed and groped by men. When I went to Korea absolutely none of that kind of stuff happened even once. I felt incredibly safe there. If you go to shitty cheap clubs full of creepy coomers then yeah maybe, but in my western country women literally get stabbed with hypodermic needles full of date rape drugs and even murdered after nights out, so it’s not even comparable.

No. 1721224

>>1703482
>hates east Asia
>would rather go to the UAE because it’s ‘safer’
Hahahaha. You must be a man.

No. 1872882

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So, SK passed a law that allows companies to make their workers work 21.5 hours a day.

No. 2191618

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>that third pic

No. 2191620

>>2191618
ew…why is faggotry so popular and important to everyone now? i dont think its a coincidence that young faggots are also extremely miserable

No. 2191671

>>1491175
2/10, manhwachad's head is too big

No. 2294041

>>2191618
Trannies always the most affected, even in Thailand - the ladyboy paradise.

No. 2297845

I really hate how my immigrant parents bootlick and worship first world countries and their peoples like burgerland. The concepts of racism or Asian fetishisation are just nonexistent to them despite them having faced that shit throughout their lives here. It's like they subconsciously cope so hard they believe it and it veers into victim blaming. Basically to them if you're harassed or even assaulted then it's your fault and you need to be smarter and better to integrate into society.

No. 2298664

The artist alley scene where I'm from in SEA is predominantly female and maybe a handful of gay men and a minority of nigels brought by their nonbinary gfs. And an organizer announced a Women's month AA. Of course they felt the need to say "TWAW btdubs owo". Who the fuck are you virtue signaling to, at most my country has hsts tims with no interest to AA. There's like one "lesbian" tif who asked if she was allowed to table because she didn't ID as a woman. Girl.

No. 2298758

>>2298664
>"lesbian" tif
she doesn't identify as a woman but claims to be a lesbian? wtf. i'd love for her to tell me what lesbian means kek

No. 2298920

>>2298758
She's one of those "lesbian" yaoi fans, so do with that what you will.

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>>2298920
>"lesbian" yaoi fans(antifujo outside containment)

No. 2301757

Malaysia, Indonesia, and Brunei should be unified, one faith one nation one general standard language bahasa



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