Comments by "R K." (@DarkAngel2512) on "Oriental Pearl" channel.

  1. @Trinity M yes,everyone has their own traditions and reasoning. So why do SJWs try to change those traditions. Its traditional for all races who mix with black people to adopt the hairstyles and language. And same for other cultures. Its traditional to use the term oriental. Yet your other comments are saying it's wrong to do what we've always done and what we were taught to do BY black and asian people.. Can you mot see how illogical that is?
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  2.  @mercury_icarus  its SJWs who need to live in the real world. Nobody cares about diff cultures have diff names for it. The arrogance that you corrected me calling it canerow. I dont live in America. In UK we call them canerow. That's what Jamaicans call them. But pls continue with your American exceptionalism..
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  3.  @willcruz943  speaking as someone from UK this issue didnt exist here until 5 years ago. I grew up with black people and all us girls canerowed our hair and black people would compliment me and ask me to do theirs and would pay me. I used to wear clothing items that Joe I'm very aware are of diff cultures and again noone batted an eyelid. Our clothes shops sold asian jewellery and clothing or rasta clothing. African clothing etc. Noone stopped and thought anything about it atall ever. This has been inserted into weak minds and theyve lapped it up. It's quite sad.
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  4.  @jessintokyo  My Indian friend is a TaiKWonDo instructor and does the comps. Hes even met the guy who invented it and he didnt seem to mind my friend teaching it and "profting" off it. It's just SJWs being weird like they always do. They're like Mao's Red Guards.
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  5.  @thisiscendres  nope and nope. I grew up in UK canerowing my hair and doing black peoples' hair for the last 30 years and "profiting" off it. It was less than an issue. You guys need to stop making it one as it's set race relations back 50 years in western countries.
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  6. Same in UK. Older UK head here and I grew up canerowing mine and black peoples' hair for them. This was NEVER an issue and never mentioned atall as being a problem. This isnt a real issue. It's some ceap academia started and now its spread amongst young SJWs and people who dont really mix with many other races. They mean well but growing up with all races they honestly dont bat an eyelid when we assimilate their culture. Same way I dont even think twice when they assimilate ours and I domt even see it as them assimilating "our" culture. It's their culture too. Culture is and has never been bound by race.
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  7.  @mercury_icarus  not true. Theee are countless black people all over social media complaining about us wearing canerow and this was never an issue before 5 years ago.
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  8.  @AiyameXi  no its isnt kept at a minimum. Hip hop is one of the most succesful music genres and has spread worldwide and white people are the largest consumers in America. Stop repeating false rubbish.
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  9. The woke can make anything about racism or colonialism. They could make fruit racist.
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  10.  @nat3299  so you admit black people and black cultures are diverse. do you acknowledge not all black people think like some black Americans? In UK, JA and Africans they dont give a crap about us copying their hair. That's an American thing.
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  11.  @nat3299  give me ten examples of where people have been discriminated in the last 50 years for those hairstyles. Noone has renamed anything. Jamaicans call them canerow and Chiney buns instead of cornrow and Bantu knots. That's a black culture. Not all black cultures are the same. Americans are quite arrogant with this. That needs to stop. And Kim K didnt rename them. She was referring to the two plait style being how boxers wear their hair. She wasnt calling the plait a boxer braid. She meant the style of wearing two was how boxers wear them. She was giving reference. Same as with Bo Derek. Nobody assumes they're actually called Bo Derek braids. But they were dubbed that as a point t of reference for people who dont know their name. You're coming at this all wrong. Noone is renaming anything. And you need to respect diff cultures have diff names for things and stop with the American exceptionalism. Ita extremely arrogant and ignorant of how culture works. And as for dreads those belong to other cultures. Again you're being quite ignorant. If other cultures have diff names for them like how Ameircans call them locs, we dont get mad. That's just what you guys call them. But the anger that AAs project towards those of us who call them dreads is wild. I hope you grow out of this. I know social media is messing you kids up but now you guys are trying to mess adults up and we've had enough. We were doing ok until you guys started all this bs. We've honestly had it to the back teeth
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  12.  @WovenOcean5605  all I heard was parrots rhetoric in your comment. If person A over here wears canerow and doesnt stop person B over here wearing it then you have no argeument. Take you issue up with the individual who personally said you couldnt wear your hair that way.
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  13. That's not what it was. This newly coined term "appropriation" just meant to adopt cultures. It wasnt automatically via force. Misappropriation meant "colonial imperialism". Copying cultures is not colonial imperialism. Me copying a black persons' hair does not prevent them from wearing it regardless if another white person tells them they cant. Me profiting off doing other black peoples' hair who have asked me to over the years does not effect other black people. Its exchange. We have helped their culture by buying hip hop music as white people are the largest consumers in America and white dominant countries. People need to stop believing every postmodernist crap on social media. Unless they grew up with black people before social media then they're going to be lacking experience. Growing up since the early 80s, black never cared about us copying their hair. They taught us how to do these styles. Its an open culture as its most culture. If I wanted to mock a black person for whatever reason that still wouldnt mean I cant wear their hairstyles because 1. culture isnt race and 2. those issues are seperate. You can still mock someone AND it have nothing to do with their race. You can black up, or as Americand call it blackface, and that isnt mocking black people because if you are old enough to remember comedy from ten years ago black people were in those sketches. Sick and tired of kids on the internet talking about things they dont understand. Also its nothing to do with majority and minority as a minority can overthrow a majority culture. Other races are not these fragile beings just because they're are less of them in a population. Black people do amazingly well in The West. Their culture has been loved and spread far and wide by our support and if they want everything non-black removed from the culture and for them to segregate and us to stop supporting they can do that but they wont be as successful as they are now playing overseas and hitting the charts etc. Same goes for asians in terms of Kpop and anime and the export of their language
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  14.  @mercury_icarus  Kim called the ones she wore boxer braids because boxers often wear two braids like that. Same as Bo Derek popularised Fulani braids. And not everyone calls them Bantu knots. In UK and JA we call them Chiney buns. And making small buns can be called small buns. He isnt saying he invented the bun. You realise buns are Greek in origin. So are the Bantu people stealing by calling them Bantu knots? Do you not see how silly this all is?
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  15.  @jamesryder8305  no she isnt right. If hip hop is mainstream like you admit then black culture and history is clearly not kept to a minimum. And black culture is more prevalent than most cultures. You have hip hop in other countries with kids growing up emulating it. Kids who love Jamaican and African culture. It is admired and emulated. And there is a dedicated black history month. So to claim it isnt talked about atall is demonstrably not true. By "spoken about in hushed tones" do you mean not spoken about as much as white people? Its a white majority country, love. It's not going to feature as much as white history. Go to Africa or Jamaica and you'll get a diff story. It doesnt matter if I'm from UK. I can learn about what happened 60 years ago same way as you. Through reading. We literally have the same access to this stuff. Of course you wont be taught the full history. You do realise there is a limited amount of time to teach so they have to focus on the most relevant. They cant go through every detail of black history. They dont do it with white history either. What has some people not liking where hip hop comes from got to do with the bs claim the lady above made about "black culture is kept to a minimum". Off topic. Of course some people are racist. What do you want? No racism? That's a fantasy. If that's your goal then you're wasting your time. Be happy a lot of people love black people/culture. Be happy they love it enough to emulate it and stop being racist to them for emulating. And what are you on about? Where did I say I think all Koreans like black people? Of course they dont. You have racists in every race. That's just maths. A lot of black people dont like asians. Wth does that have to do with if black culture is kept to a minimum? And what do those few racists have to do with those who like black people/culture? Even in Korea black culture isnt kept to a minimum. I dont understand this insistence from people who think like you of putting some racists views onto those who arent racist simply because they share the same skin colour. That makes you the racist. Just get back to normal how we were 5 years ago when we all copied each other and didnt discriminate people based on others who happened to share the same race. Because truthfully these days the people coming off most racist are black people. You're not helping your case by putting all people of the same race under one umbrella and discriminating them based on their race. If you dont like asian people copying black culture then dont copy them. Dont eat their food or speak their language or listen to their music. Be consistent. Otherwise leave them the hell alone.
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  16.  @polari7658  how can you "whitewash" a cartoon. They're all fictional.
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  17.  @horsewings3561  cultural appropriation and cultural appreciation are the same thing. You might be confusing appropriation with misappropriation. It's a new term that came out mainstream about 2015 but stems from 2010 acadamia. It just means to copy something or adopt something. The people calling it "colonial" have swallowed too much academia. People speak others languages all the time and to differing levels. The only way to misappropriate a langauge is to redefine words incorrectly or something.
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  18. Big up Xiaoma. I love his videos.
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  19.  @nahla8328  same with Korean. Korean evolved from Chinese. Its like 70% Chinese. And they made their own characters but many words are from Chinese. Also Korean and Japanese share many words. Heck, Korea uses many English words. I once saw some idiots on a Facebook page saying Koreans were trying to, cant remember the word made up word they used, make their words more English and basically making out it was offensive and stealing. English is from Latin. Like this whole thing is so dumb it makes my head and heart hurt.
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  20. What do you mean "thought things had changed"? Assuming he isnt Japanese isnt a bad thing. The country is 98% homogenous. It's not like he was treated badly for it.
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  21.  @kaseyc9459  growing up in UK predominantly around d a black social circle I experienced racism. You talk about privilege as if being a majority in a country means you dont exprience racism. In North of England there are a lot of asians and many white kids arw outnumbered. You have fallen for woke rhetoric. Growing up in UK we never had this concept of privelege or minority disadvantage. Anyone could experience racism and did but for some reason wokeness decided to redefine that in the last 5-10 years. It's a fake reality. There are black people who are a minority in a country who dont experience racism atall and openly state that. It doesnt matter how many people exist somewhere. Racism happens in all directions.
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  22.  @kopxpert  in school we had culture days. We would cook a dish from a particular country and learn something about that country like a song or how to do henna or eat with chopsticks. Now I know people who consider that literal act racist.
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  23. I still dont get the issue. People like to dabble with diff languages to lower levels rather than throw themselves into just one or two. They can still have shop hindu or taxi Spanish or whatever they utilise the language for. If they are able.to achieve what they set out to do and people can literally see from.the video what their level is then I don't see the issue. We enjoy the vidoes and wouldnt watch if we didnt. I see mostly positive comments and rarely negative ones. We know what the videos are about when we watch them.
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  24. And people often conflate culture and race. They assume based on someones skin colour that they weren't born into a certain culture. As this point hip hop is so widespread we're all born into the culture to a degree. We're all born with Indian or south-east Asian culture around us. There are black and asian Japanese people. People might accuse them of cultural theft/erasure. It's silly when its an open and shared culture. Speaking of gender roles have you seen Oli London. He's really called their bluff. A Kpop fanatic who had surgery to look asian and calls himself non-binary and trans racial. It puts these SJWs in quite a quandary.
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  25.  @tenshi.kurama  😂😂 "toxic appropriation". Halloween costumes? Wow! I dont quite know what to say. Just wow!
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  26.  @dionysianapollomarx  The king Laoshu used to do those titles and they helped get more clicks aswell as his were hilarious. And if it werent for Laoshu we may not have Frankie Light as he said that black man inspired him. I click on Youtubers who put "My Korean husband ...." because I'm into Korean so it targets my specific interest. I dont have time you waste searching YouTube to find what I want when it can be labelled specifically. Many people are curious to see the white guy chat Chinese or the black man chat Hindi.
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  27.  @sebastianleloir6956  that's not what racism is though. Racism is if you are prejudiced or discriminate others based on race. In Jamiaca you have a guy called "White Yardy". Noone thinks he's less Jamaican for pointing out his skin colour.
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  28.  @elizebeths.8880  every human appropriates though.
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  29.  @elizebeths.8880  Fbk is great for cats and food videos. Just make sure you get a comment blocker or something and it will be less stressful.
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  30. It also encourages people who are at the same low level. People who are fluent look out of reach to those wanting to learn. Those at basic level look more attainable and it shows the awkwardness and struggles they go through and it shows we can do it too regardless of those struggles.
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  31. Yep. His skin tone and nose say black and his eyes say asian.
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  32.  @nat3299  that's interesting to know the Portuguese call dreads "rasta" as Kpop fans were complaining about asians calling them rasta hair. They arent wrong. It's a religious rasta hairstyle. Thank you for apologising and sorry if I read you wrong. Amongst the other commenters I can be on autopilot defence where they're on the attack or saying things that demonstrably arent true. As an old head it's hard seeing people try to rewrite history or misrepresent the present or what peoples' intentions are. There will be cases where dreads are seen as unprofessional or dirty as in many cases they arent done professionally and are infact dirty. Many people dont get them done properly and just let their hair locs up naturally so its unkempt and they dont wash and treat it properly so it gets gunky and dandruffy. So in many cases it is dirtyness and lack of care. You can look at diff dreads and see which ones are being taken care of and which arent. I used to do dreads so I knew the guys who took care of them and regularly twisted them vs those who looked like utter crap and didnt section them well or start them off well so they couldnt be fixed to look good later on. Some places may have certain hair and fashion policies so as to remain neutral for customers so as not to lose money. It isnt about the company discriminating so much as them wanting a neutral look so they dont lose customers who might not like the look. Companies put money first. Hence why I'm not allowed over the top tattoos or piercings at my work. When you say there is a high chance of people treating you diff if you had them done years ago you have to be talking beyond 40 years ago because I think I only ever heard one case in my life back in the early 90s and I'm pretty sure that was word of mouth so I never knew if that case was accurate. So this is why I always ask for evidence as I feel people keep passing these stories around and they dont seem to base them on any concrete examples. If it happened decades ago it isnt relevant anymore. Its beating a dead horse. In regards to hari being distracting if its distracting at school such as being too big and blocking the board for example then yeah the pupil needs to tie it back. School isnt a fashion show. You go there to learn.
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  33.  @Hiforest  we dont use the term Anglo-Saxon in England. We call ourselves English. He may have just been talking about where he thinks his generics stem from.
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  34.  @lusibeth  It came from postmodernism in western academia. Look up The Frankfurt School. It's where all the critical theories came from.
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  35.  @Teyisagirl00  Well, that's the culture I was raised around. I grew up in the 80s on hip hop culture and never once did any of the artists get upset about people copying their hair. Now if someone bit their style that was a other matter. But they had all races in their videos with their hair and fashion emulating the culture. Same in UK where I'm from. Black people shared the culture and liked us copying. To me this is fabricated outrage by racists, the brainwashed and woke saviours. And as it's a recent trend I dont intend to give in to these bullies. They can stay getting mad. I'm actually sat here about to go to an afro salon to buy extensions to canerow my hair for Easter. And these people I'm sure will gladly take my money. What the woke dont realise is their taking money out of these peoples' pockets and causing people to resent black people. Its a lose/lose situation. Enjoy your Easter:)
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  36.  @bluchismoon  you're conflating culture and race in your first paragraph. While cultures can be isolated to particular races you then went on to speak about diff cultures whilst I think you were thinking in your head "race". And while there might be some groups out there who dont like others sharing their culture I have yet to come across one. I dont know of any minorities who had an issue with other races copying them until 2017. Its social media driven. I dont really care for it as it doesnt reflect the reality majority of us grew up with. If Gen Z want to go round discriminating each other and being racist that's on them. Comparing copying to colonial imperialism or subjugation and theft is a reach and thinking in weird absolutes without any nuance or context and thus taking it to its logical conclusion simply copying a black friend's unique mannerism or a dance step they come up with is theft. Woke racists really need to understand the diff between colonial theft and cultural exchange. You're right. You cant go round telling others how they should feel about their cultural norms. Gen Z really need to keep that to themselves and their generation. Better yet those individuals need to keep it to themselves. As they cannot claim its theft when it's been shared time and time again and not to mention all races practiced these styles. To tell them to stop practicing their culture makes those people the racist oppressors. And I couldnt agree more with your last sentence. There was never any ill will towards me when I was hanging out with black people and copying them :)
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  37. @Trinity M the term oriental is an old term but it isnt outdated. And its subjectively offensive like most things. If it wasnt offensive back then then the only reason it can be seen as offensive now is because a small segment keep trying to force others to see it offensive when really that's your issue. We have oriental food shops and oriental medicine shops that are Asian-owned. Orient simply means "The East". There is nothing offensive about it. You're talking about East-Asian. And it isnt about "refusing to hear a "person of colour" ", hilarious you use this term when it sounds so similar to another term that was considered offensive, it's about not having exprienced anyone offended by this until very recently AND that it's a small portion of other races offended. It isnt about white entitlement. It's about sjw entitlement. You guys force your views onto others including others of your own race. We dont think like you. And you cant make us. You are in the minority even amongst minorities. You do you and stop telling others what to find offensive. You realise that's why you think how you do. Because some equally uninformed person told you what to be offended by and you accepted it rather than use reason and evidence.
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  38.  @elizebeths.8880  There are all diff ways we assimilate cultures. Food, language, music, dance, mannerisms, fashion, hair etc
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  39.  @OrientalPearl  there was one guy who used to make Korean bbq at a pub. He was taught by a Korean guy and peoppe got mad and they were also mad he put Asian drinks on the menu that werent Korean so mixing them. As if you dont have pan-Asian restaurants that mix diff asian foods.
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  40.  @Giminy  "fetishize" "clout" tow buzz words that show me you have picked the western concept of woke culture well. If only that was a culture people would stop appropriating.
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  41.  @clairea3328  dreads are rarely discriminated against. I think I've only ever heard it happen once in UK and I'm in my 40s. And you cant blame fashion designers for what some company somewhere does. End of the day theyd hold that rule for all races. My job doesnt allow us to dye our hair mad colours or have tattoos. Just how some places are as they know customers might not like someone with an unconventional look. But truthfully like I said I only heard about it once and that was in the 90s and it was secondhand info so not even sure if it actually happened or not.
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  42.  @clairea3328  my point is how many legal cases? Its extremely rare to the point noone ever hears about it. How has it taken me 25 years to hear something like this having spent all that time around black people/culture? And on regards to kids being sent home it happens to white kids too. Infact I've only heard it happen to white kids and that was after a google search. Two white kids to be exact. And it's not a societal stigma atall. How many times have you heard people talk bat about those styles? Not how many people told you others speak that way but how many have you actually heard speak that way? Because from where I'm standing it's people repeating baseless claims. I've never seen anyone talk badly about black hairstyles. You'd be hard pressed to find it. And if you do its likely because they were referring to the dreads being unkempt or the weave being put in badly so nothing to do with the actual style itself. You claim it's so widespread so give me some sort anecdotal stories you personally experienced. Just 5 will do. "And when that designer then says black people are "appropriating" straight hair". Wait! What? What designer? What's their name? Were they saying they as a retaliation to the person accusing them of appropriation? Then they were simply defending themselves. Of course it .makes his case. He used a style mostly worn by own race and vice versa. His accusation was like for like. Black people cant scream discrimaintion over hair when they are the ones being the lost discriminatory over hair. Perhaps we need a law against that too. You cant tell people not to copy each other. The only time it matters is when it comes to art and copyright. Those hairstyles are not from a closed culture and have been practiced for millenia by all races. People are dying in Ukraine and privileged westerners sit here actually getting upset over hair. I will look up The Crown Act but in the meantime if you can give me these widespread examples you've personally experienced that would be great :)
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  43.  @clairea3328  extensions arent necessary for school. Styling should be neutral. What do you define as a natural hairstyle as someone claimed that locs are natural when of course they're not. I believe there was ONE case where a child had their hair cut by a teacher. Not by the school. So The Crown Act passed without fanfare? Goes to show there wasnt really an issue then. I always see black women with their natural hair. Not sure where you live but it's common in western media and public life. As for copying black hair many black people dont have straight hair so are copying. So if they take issue with people copying their hair they shouldnt copy either. Although its utterly petty. Humans copy. That's how we function. The history behind perms is irrelevant. It's a bloody hairstyle that hairdressers have been providing for years without issue. Why you want to make it into an issue is beyond me. What has skin bleaching hot to do with other races copying hairstyles? You're all over the place. The beauty standard is not eurocenteic and you can keep saying that til the cows come home. It's simply not true based on evidence. Black people bleach. White people fake tan and her sunbeds. And all races put chemicals in their hair. What is your point? Black people are mot met with hurdle after hurdle. You guys keep saying this and there is little evidence for this. What has a take-over company putting what some people deem not the best choice of ingredients in got to do with discrimination or if people should copy other races? Again,you're all over the place. Why is it not ok to copy traditional hairstyles? They're also our tradition too. For what reason. Traditionally they are worn for the same reasons. I wear them for the exact same reasons as my black friends. If you want those hairstyles normalised even though they have been for years then why are you trying to make them not normalised? Where is the logic in that?.
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  44. I've been saying something similar only that its SJW culture or some of Gen Z culture. Nobody in The West was saying anything about others copying other cultures before. It's a postmodernist nonsense cooked up by acadamia. And it simply went viral on social media because SJWs latched onto it. Millenials and boomers alike dont care about this stuff and neither do many Gen Z. You see them in the comments saying how they're embarrassed of other Gen Z.
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  45.  @11mazatl  colonial imperialism (colonization is slightly diff) shouldnt apply outside of cultures where people came to such as UK where black people were not subjugated natives and were invited here so misappropriation of their culture shouldnt apply here. And it didnt until 2017 sjws picked up academia nonsense online.
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  46. Identity politics for you. People cant even think normally anymore. Someone above said how its racist to be shocked at a white guy speaking Spanish because there are white Spanish speakers. Its understood what is meant by that video title that its an English speaker. People are too literal.
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  47.  @ellvee4261  ahh thanks
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  48. English native here and I wouldnt know advanced words about economics. Am I not fluent? For the more abstract topics I dont think you need to include those as part of fluency.
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  49.  @kaseyc9459  you used the woke term "privilege". Its bs.
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  50.  @kaseyc9459  so by me repeating your wording that's what you consider irony? And you werent using it in terms of a number being left behind. You used it in terms of race. As I said that concept didnt exist before. Identarians made it up. Any one can experience racism in any setting regardless if how many white or brown or Asian or black people are in the room.
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