Post 5: K-pop fans and Respect

As fan, I experienced that there are people who do not respect us from who we are, it is either they do not know the reason why we like k-pop or they do not like k-pop at all. However, a fan or not, people should respect k-pop fans.

Like otakus, discrimination on k-pop fans began wildly, and since k-pop became wildly known, k-pop fans from all around the world appeared and discrimination became a huge topic . According to an anonymous author on the article You Only Like Korean Idols Because (Insert Weird Assumption Here): Being Branded as a K-pop Fan (http://angrykpopfan.tumblr.com/post/27414184901/you-only-like-korean-idols-because-insert-weird),  a certain stereotype on k-pop fans has been created since there are also fans who are "screwed up". This so-called fans target non k-pop artists and discriminate them, and in return other people branded k-pop fans. Us fans that have been called and labelled by our peers from some ridiculous names to some offensive ones:

• Romanticizer of Korean Products and Culture. A person who love only Korean products and their culture.

• Romanticizer of Koreans in General. A person who love Koreans and believed that   they would only marry a Korean person.

• A Korean Culture Supremacist. "If something or someone is not Korean, it sucks".

• "You Probably Wish You Were Korean". He or she would do anything to be a Korean, he/she would live in Korean and CHANGE their nationality.

To those who believe that ALL Korean fans are like this... think twice, I'll give you some examples of differences between a fan and a so-called fan.

FAN

• Loves Korean beauty products, food, productions and many more, but respects and thinks that non-Korean stuffs are also cool. (Uses also non-Korean products) 

• Dreamt  of living in Korea and having a career there but will not throw away his or her nationality.

• Fantasizes marrying his/her idol biases or a Korean but also welcomes the idea of being together with a non-Korean.

• Knows their limits as a fan.

• Also considers that Koreans have flaws.

SO-CALLED FAN

• Thinks that Koreans and their products are the best! Nothing else matters...

• Invades even the private life of their idols and often stalks them.

• Thinks Koreans are perfect.

So as a fan even though it hurts to say this: Korean and everything about it is not as perfect as it seems. We must know that we have to respect others people so that they will respect us. We do not have the right to say that we are superior nor anyone has the right to. A true fan must respect others first so that other people will respect us too.