First of all, I have to admit that the thought of non-Asian K-pop idols always sounded weird to me (just like non-asian kpop fans talking about wanting to audition lol) but I would give them a listen and then decide whether I like it or not (otherwise I would never ever hate on someone in public without knowing them personally and just keep my thoughts to myself or rant with friends but never I would spread hate comments or something which they could end up seeing and be hurt). As a friend on here already said, Kpop is not about being Korean or even Asian at all, it is about the language. 

I gave the guys of Exp a listen when stumbling over an mnet performance clip on instagram and the boys are not really attractive to me but who cares, I was surprised about their good pronunciation and they have amazing voices! Even Suju (some members were there as EXP performed SuJu's U - gosh I love this song, good old kpop days ..) started to kinda fanboy about their performance! as well as the audience! 

Now, I already had quite a few discussion with haters and saw many hate comments and post (why can't you people just keep it to yourself if you don't like them?) and I can't relate to what they say ... One girl even said Asians were not welcome in the 'white' music industry and so they built their own? What about Asians going solo in America, what about K-idols working together with 'white' or also 'black' people? An unnie of mine even told me that Jay Park first came out in the US with mixtapes and started his career there which I didn't know about before. 

They are non-Asians 

A friend on here already posted a blog about this matter on here. Kpop is not about being Asian, not even about being Korean at all (all those Thai and Chinese idols and there will even be a Filipina idol next!) it is about the language! My Unnie also told me the boys of EXP learned Korean, so they seem to be able to read and speak it, hence also the pretty good pronunciation. Don't have Chinese trainees like Tao or Lay or other non Korean idols have suffered enough by bullying during trainee days? Everyone of us hates this fact that they have been bullied because of not being Korean or Kai who has been bullied a lot because of his skin tone, yet those fans are doing exactly the same with these boys? (I think it's the same issue with Jayden Smith) That's kinda hypocritical don't you think?

Their name sounds too much like EXO

Ever thought that it could be an abbreviation for something or been made out of fun? I heard from my unnie that it started as a uni project. Did Exo buy this name? You know that Exo also has different meanings depending on the field? Exo doesn't own that name and for example, in chemistry, Exo is an abb and describes a chemical reaction which produces heat (I could be wrong, I don't know the exact definition anymore, chemistry was 3 years back lol). 

They haven't gone through trainee period and suffered like all the other idols

Do people have to suffer and sleep on the floor with many other trainees or hide in the bathroom to eat cake in order to become a K-pop idol or singer? This is an Asian mentality and the fault of the companies themselves as well the delusional idol types in Korea. These people knew what they were getting into and still chose this period of their life voluntarily. I feel sorry for them, yes, but it's what they chose to become a K-pop idol. Also these boys are kpop singers not idols. The definition of an idol is different, they are trained in many different fields, hence why they have this trainee period before debut. These boys are just singing in Korean, nothing else. Maybe the life for trainees will also start to become better in the future. In my opinion, trainees are way too young nowadays anyway. They need to be allowed to be kids first (okay, then again many children in their teens already read and watch pronographic materialal or pretend to be adults ..), they need to know what this all means, they need to know what life costs (of course the companies can't pump hilarious amounts of money into them if they don't know will these kids really debut and be successful)..

I never thought people could be so racist (not only Asians but 'white' people themselves). Racism is wrong in any kind of place. You dislike them because of the things above and didn't even gave them a listen? Keep it to yourself and don't spread ill thoughts and fire among the community. You gave them a try and still dislike them? Okay, that's fine, at least you have tried, yay! Among you guys who are willing to give them a chance, please spread the word and some love for the boys. They still need to learn a couple of things in terms of performance to keep up with kpop idols but they are really good already. 

Or just spread the #noracism tag because that's what people are being right now, racist.

Personally, I will follow them a bit on their future path and see what else they will do:) Let's see what Jayden will do:3