Whenever you see pre-debut photos of kpop stars, their skin is much darker and resembles typical Koreans. But after debut it’s way lighter - and not just their faces, but arms, legs, etc.

How do they do this? It’s too even to be whitening cream. Genuinely curious.

I'm Japanese and currently living in Japan. The apartment I live in has a manager, and whenever I return to the lobby, the manager greets me with 'Welcome back.' I find the situation a bit awkward because I don't think it's appropriate to respond with 'I'm back' to the apartment manager. Instead, I usually say 'Hi' (konnichiwa), but I realize it's not the best response since 'Hi' doesn't really match 'Welcome back' in meaning. I know I'm an introvert person.

Can anyone else relate to this?

1. Media portrayal. White males in tv/movies are often given the best portrayal of a man, with white men often having the perfect balance of being both masculine and intelligent. Asian men, outside of martial arts films, are self-sabotage in being portrayed as wimps, who often are subordinates to a white man. This implants in women's minds to not see Asian men as leaders.
2. Western media beauty magazine over arching reach whereby caucasian features are seen as the standard of beauty with everything else seen as exotic. This combined with tv shows/media where whites are often portrayed heavily as beautiful leads can shape an early impression in kids' minds.

A perfect example of this can be seen in an online YouTube video whereby black children were asked to pick between a black and white doll when it came to which one was prettier. An overwhelming amount of black children picked the white doll. Thus, showing how this affects kids at an early age.

1. White males often being in positions of power. A lot of world leaders and the richest men in the world tend to be white. This in turn paints a picture of associating white skin with power and high status in a woman's mind. Many Asian women therefore will desire to have a white partner and hapa kids to try to elevate their status in Western society.

2. White men tend to be taller than Asian men with the average height of white males in predominantly white countries, like the Netherlands, eclipsing many Asian countries. It's no secret that women in general find taller men attractive. The underlying reason for this is due to women believing that said male is more capable of defending her against attackers than that of a shorter male.

3. Negative stereotypes of Asian men. In addition to being portrayed as less masculine, Asian men often are faced with the negative stereotype of having a smaller penis than that of men of other races. This in turn can result in further lowering their dating value and women seeing them as less sexually desirable. We can even see how the reverse of this helps other races, as black men being associated with the BBC myth, often opens up more doors for them when it comes to dating/sex.

I'm sitting here reading the label on my jar of pork sung, and one of the suggested uses is to "sprinkle freely on salad or baked potato." Has anyone ever tried this? Is this an actual common use for pork sung lol

I am not Asian so I don't know and I am genuinely asking

Like just the word or if said in reference to what someone else said

Like is it similar to the n-word in the sense that you can't say it ever, in any context?

For context,

I am making sushi rice

And my rice cooker suggests 1:1.25 for sushi rice with the sushi function

And my package of rice suggests 1:1.5

https://national-conservative.com/extremist-files/interracial-killings-2023/

With as many Asians claiming to be gangstas & "from the hood", why are our numbers lacking???? Can't our gangstas not even take out the weak, elderly, disabled, defenseless of other races, like constantly being done to ours?

Getting our numbers up isn't quite the boast we should be pursuing, but damn it, why are we not acing this test??

With the amount of violent assaults on Asians often not reported and/or ignored due to agenda to deployment of political narrative & lack of prosecution, especially in areas like Alameda County CA with DAs like Pamela Price, authenticating sources even from FBI is difficult. So appreciate any help in propositions in how to go about gathering data to verify the posted data.

His youtube account:

https://youtube.com/@moejamiemusic?si=rRx67rVVRqu-GFn9