It's another case of an idol being deemed racially insensitive by some as a video of MONSTA X's Jooheon on the July 22 edition of 'Radio Star' is garnering some negative attention from international netizens.
In the clip above, Jooheon explains how he had wanted to be black when he was younger due to his love for hip hop, saying he would follow the way they dressed and even talked. He then showed an example by comparing normal English (calm "What you talking about?") to "how black people talked" ("Hey! What you talking about, man?" with accentuated speech and bodily gestures). He would go on to say, "I don't know what you talking about, mm-mm, mm-mm," with attitude, wagging his finger.
This, plus how MBC happened to label the video ("Joohun showed black man style english"), did not blow over well with international viewers, who wrote out their feelings in the comments section. In the few hours that the video clip had been uploaded, comments include, "Jooheon baby... be careful how u word these... First Wendy and now him... the way he says it sounds very ignorant for sure. He should have just said gangster, because quite frankly its not only black people and thats a huge stereotype for black people. I just wish Koreans were just a bit more familiar with westerners... they dont all follow the stereotypes u hear [sic]," and, "So unbelievably racist and ignorant. Just wow, and the people who liked it... slow clap."
However, some people defended him, saying, "Don't get all butt hurt people, it's not like this stereotype doesn't exist elswhere, it's not like it's something new and surprising. Plus, Koreans (or anyone who doesn't live around different races for that fact) don't really know any better. That's what they see in foreign movies an tv so it's all they know [sic]," and, "I don't think this is ignorant. He says he is into hip hop culture so he wanted to imitate their clothing and speech. It would be ignorant if he portrays them in a manner that is completely stereotypical and demeaning and disrespectful. He doesn't demean anyone in what he does. It is part of his subculture too. Plus, using American standards of behavior to Korean people who have little real exposure to American society is more ignorant."
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and yet yall are sucking RM dick when he did the same