#5. Bullying, skin color and other stuffs (Op-Ed)
I'm not a fan of Seolhyun or AOA to begin with, I don't listen to their music although I cannot say I haven't heard more than a couple of their songs (but I don't really find any of them suiting my taste). I have nothing against them though, in fact I sympathize on what's happening about them (the whole korean history controversy) and that netizens are asking to replace Seolhyun as Visit Korea ambassador (to all news sites let me correct you, for her it's ambassadress, please be more gender conscious). Not only that but she's getting hate for having deeper skin complexion (alongside the she-doesn't-know-anything-or-she's-dumb-controversies). Korea, SERIOUSLY? People in your country are so lucky to have incredibly fast internet connection but you're using your advantage to bad cause, which is to bully people and discriminate them simply by having a different skin tone.
Cyber bashing and bullying is very rampant in that country, I'm surprised the government had not taken any steps to prevent it. And this mentality that they have, the so-called beauty standard of being pale or white and then you're automatically beautiful is really such a crap. I remembered when Sistar went for a y tanned-skin concept and then netizens made fun of them for being too 'dark' and 'ugly' beside 'pale' and 'beautiful' Kim Yoojung. What the actual ? They are all beautiful and that damn status quo must be scrapped. sorry bout that But let's get back to the main subject of this rant (?), the fact that the poor girls of AOA weren't able to recognize a historical figure is not a shallow thing in which they could be easily forgiven, but I also feel like it has blown up so much that it all became too ridiculous and unecessary. If Visit Korea Comittee decides to change ambassadors, it's their call but since they cannot justify any acceptable reason (more than the controversies that were only blown up by probably jealous netizens) you can see that they haven't changed their mind.
And I really appreciate it, for them to recognize a beauty that's well beyond the standard of the contemporary society. (I feel sick writing that because it's the 21st century but still we cannot outgrow our old sick habits and become better and more global individuals). But what do people say? That she is still not beautiful because of her deeper skin tone. The poor girl has to use a foundation that's loads lighter than her natural skin color just to meet the expectations of the public, because then again, she needed to be pale in order to be beautiful. Now look what happened ... - _ -
I wish people would stop destroying her self esteem because she is beautiful and doesn't deserve the amount of hate she's getting. Let's put ourselves on her shoes, just for a 'fun' thought experiment, would you like to be treated like that? Would you like to compared to other people? Nobody deserves to be because we are all created uniquely. I hope we could stop forcing one to look like the others simply because an anomaly is unacceptable. If we keep doing that then we'd be no better than clones, right? Our world, this global society, is so colorful and bursting with life because each and every individual gives off a different and unique meaning to it. We are not perfect. We all have our own shortcomings but we are humans. We are smart. I hope we're not top of the food chain for nothing. Someone has to make a change and if it's not us then who is it going to be? It's a calling to wake up and reflect.
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