For those that don't know who this guest is, she is the daughter of legendary comic book artist Jim Lee, who is the Publisher and Chief Creative Officer of DC Comics.

@Argentvs

Жыл бұрын

Wow!!!

@originalmikeythecat

Жыл бұрын

Jim Lee is like the evil boss from "My Mister".

@TheMontross

Жыл бұрын

And one of if not the best comic book artists of all time!

@boredom3646

Жыл бұрын

Okay but why did she say she’s half American? It’s nationality not ethnicity, unless she’s half real Native American. Why is that every mixed person with white parent be like, “I’m half Australian, Half Canadian, Half American, Half New Zealander etc” When their white parent is NOT indigenous at all!! Just say which ethnicity because why they said half American and half Korean/Chinese, Thai, etc but their white parent is American, but if it’s other non-white Americans, they never said half American. They be like Half Eritrean half Chinese, but is American citizen for example.

@angeloppa

Жыл бұрын

omg i love his artwork! he's the only reason i like the new 52 lol...

Not fitting in either culture (or the perception of that) is probably one of the worst parts of being mixed. Knowing the languages definitely helps with dealing with those feelings

@stuckintheblackholeofkpop2043

Жыл бұрын

Yes yes yes yes yes.....💔

@uzuma2115

Жыл бұрын

I'm Mexican American I hate when I'm around Mexican people and say you act more American etc, then when I'm with american people they say you're more Mexican and still idk what side I'm more but I'm both and that's my final answer I'm mixed that's it.

@SeaSeaGoddess1992

Жыл бұрын

She's overthinking it jus b both I'm Chinese, nd Alaskan Native, nd Black but identify as Alaskan Native you realize you can b all of them no one is stopping you #YOLO

@arrianadixon4910

Жыл бұрын

@@SeaSeaGoddess1992 shes not overthinking anything. to say words don't affect you is false we are human beings and everything we are is emotions. you can say you own both but if there are people (like she said) saying things like "you speak well for a foreigner" or "you don't look like us" it can take a toll on how you perceive yourself. and I also think it depends on the way one looks and how open-minded their culture is. your culture may be more "forgiving"

@mirai_reo

Жыл бұрын

Im Japanese and German and definitely relate to that

I’m also mixed raced and hearing her say learning both languages of her family is important to her is inspiring me to do the same. “I have to learn the language no matter what”

@sheng5269

Жыл бұрын

@@0xyGen_2.p0 not everyone is taught lol

@nandaschomakers6472

Жыл бұрын

Thats right please do because its really important!!!

@jaym4361

Жыл бұрын

People are still so prejudiced about mixed race people. "They arent 100%..... so what?

@jaym4361

Жыл бұрын

@@0xyGen_2.p0 I'm mixed Irish english and Caribbean... I get stress from all three of those... you're not pure english or Irish because you are brown skin... you're not black cos your mum is white... it's so jarring

@jaym4361

Жыл бұрын

@@0xyGen_2.p0 oh most definitely there are great advantages.. it took me a while to get to grips with my identity. But now I couldn't wish for anything better. I adore both cultures and indulge in them fully! It makes me a chameleon and I love ittttt! Ignorance is bliss for some... but that's them. I love who i am.. it took a while but I'm here now. I'm grateful for the journey.

I’m half Russian half Chinese, so this video is so relatable to me. In both countries I feel like a foreigner. Even tho I accept both of my sides, but sometimes it’s difficult to connect with other Russian or Chinese people. My boyfriend is Korean, and in Korea so many people said that I look 100% Korean. I think I finally found my home where I can feel comfortable

@ga5835

Жыл бұрын

So you livin Korea??

@lilyman7410

Жыл бұрын

@@ga5835 no 😭 just travel

@nikolai5012

Жыл бұрын

Hey that's cool, I'm half Ukrainian and half Chinese

I have met people from all over the world, some mixed, some not, and I have reached the conclusion that we are really all the same. There are 7500 varieties of apples in the world, but they are all apples, and we are all humans. A hug is good in any culture, and turning your back on someone is always bad, anywhere...we all want to be respected, appreciated, and even loved for who we are. So far in my almost 35 years that is the conclusion I have reached.

@matthewgraham2546

Жыл бұрын

Rokmin, I am 70 years old and agree with your analogy.

@rokmin8550

Жыл бұрын

@@matthewgraham2546 thank you sir

@celianeher7637

Жыл бұрын

I totally agree with you. I was born and raised in Jamaica where the races and culture haved been mixed for hundreds of years due to colonialism. The motto of our country is ' Out of many , one nation '. I am not saying that we are perfect but , after living for over fifty years where I haved lived in several countries and now in Europe, I see Jamaicans are more tolerance towards races. They will treat you with kindness but ,should you draw the ' race-card ' you will be punished. What I don't like is the ' colourisium ' where by some thinks the lighter skin tone regardless of what mixed you are a more beautiful ( which is not always the case in my opinion ). I haved also often be told that I am pretty for a black woman. And one thing that is true for Jamaicans that grows up to an age where critical thinking is developed is, no matter the race when asked where there are from , proudly say Jamaica and not say ,I an Chinese, Spanish, Indians or so Jamaicans but just Jamaicans.

@lunastella2323

Жыл бұрын

I wish more people would think this way.

@fundash5124

Жыл бұрын

​@@celianeher7637 What you said was beautifully stated except for the part about colorism the most and the worst thing in Jamaica is classism, not colorism. I don't mean to sound bad but the people who suffer from colorism in Jamaica are the people you will say come from the lower class, I don't know the reason why but it affects them a lot. However it is true Jamaicans that grow up to an age where critical thinking is developed, no matter the race when asked where there are from they proudly say Jamaica and do not say, I am Chinese, Spanish, Indian or so but proudly say I am a Jamaican. Even if you ask what race are you, they will say that they are Jamaican and the main reason why is that the word race does not make sense and because when people talk about black, white, etc... people they seem like they're only referring to American people, especially for the race that you called the black race, it seems like they're only referring to Black Americans.

I like how that girl really respects her Korean side and had the thought that she should learn Korean too as she's half Korean. Amazing respect from her to her other half language Korean.🙂

Holy!!! She's Jim Lee's daughter. What a surprise! Now that it's mentioned you can see the resemblance, especially the face structure, and she's so pretty. For the young people. Jim Lee is the legendary comic artist. Now he works for DC, but he really gained popularity in the 90s working for Marvel. The popular 90s X-Men cartoon was a big hit and Jim Lee was a big part in the overall look of the characters because he redesigned their outfits to the now classic blue and yellow look.

@NYCMonkey23

Жыл бұрын

I was a huge fan of his X-Men comics in the 90s and I have his WildC.A.T.S comics 1-6 ;) Jim Lee sold the most comic EVER with that X-Men #1 in the 90s, others don't even come close

As a half Korean half Norwegian who grew up in Norway, but studied in Korea for 3 years this video is so funny and relatable.

@jennylh1784

Жыл бұрын

oi, same

@vaar5758

Жыл бұрын

@@jennylh1784 😃

being half east asian and half latina this hits home. In america I am considered asian or mixed asian and in asia I am like either fetished or limitedly accepted ? being mixed is not easy but I love my cultures. But with that being said ....I was raised more with my asian father in asia so I made the efforts to adapt and connect more with my asian culture as an adult.

@sachelynzheng5631

Жыл бұрын

Im half Asian and half Latina too, so I completely understand you.

@Milo_D

Жыл бұрын

Uff being what they called “latino”, or more or more accurately from México center and South America it’s already in must of the cases mixted race so thats must be a lot of culture to discovering 🤩🤩🤩🤩

@shad0wCh8ser

Жыл бұрын

basically fillipina. 😅 It's all good, just accept your fate.

@Kelleyo

Жыл бұрын

I’m Asian and Latina too. I understand

@Kelleyo

Жыл бұрын

@@shad0wCh8ser doesn’t that completely dismiss our experiences as a mixed Asian and Latina living in America? Lol. Not equivalent to being Filipino

I respect her a *LOT.* Someone who perhaps by most accounts, had a pretty set life in the US to go out and discover her roots as Korean, separate from the rest of her family. Not only did she learn Korean to this fluent level (the first, very high bar), but also started to live in Korea to discover what is half her identity. And even to the point of potentially exchanging her US citizenship for a Korean one? That is a major, MAJOR commitment to the culture that few can match. I feel the way about my half Chinese roots, so this is nothing short of absolutely inspiring for me. Thank you for sharing.

I have a nephew who is mixed race so these are issues he will face as he gets older. HeeJae, SeungWoo and Seungri challenged each other in a good way on what it means to be Korean. Being mixed race doesn’t mean you can’t embrace language and cultural identity. Glad Seungri chose for herself.

@stuckintheblackholeofkpop2043

Жыл бұрын

So so true. As a mixed race young adult, I will tell you that the absolute most important thing is to make sure they learn both languages growing up. Not "oh we'll do it later" or sit down and teach it, but just naturally speak to them in both languages, all the time, growing up In addition to bilingualism being an incredible asset in life, not knowing the language of half of your family (usually the non-English side) can feel so incredibly isolating an devastating (to some) even if the child thinks they don't want to learn it at the time...

@fundash5124

Жыл бұрын

I think most mixed-race children have identity issue because were there were grown and the parents who grow them🤔

I love her outlook on it though! And I love that she plans to naturalize, it shows that she's really solidified in herself that she is Korean and wants to engage with that culture. I hope she lives a happy life and stays proud of who she is.

@Goldun-nah

Жыл бұрын

If she solidified herself, why do you speak of her as a foreigner like she’s still just pretending real hard to be Korean? We are Korean. That’s the end of it. So speak as such. If you can trace it in our blood… if we yearn for Korea bc of it and feel what “Han” is…. Then nobody should speak like we are separate from the “한” in 대한민국. -恨

Being half-russian, half-korean, I always felt like I don't completely fit into mentalities of these countries. But try to think of it this way: you took the best traits of both countries and can turn it into something new and magical, having a broader perception of the world without any boundaries and making better decisions

It made me a little sad to hear their answers. Being told I don’t look like or don’t belong to a community of people because I don’t look purely like them.., I’m spilt 50/50 between races and many people have asked my mother if I was adopted because I look nothing like her. My children will be even more mixed then me, I hope they have a better fate..

@he2295

Жыл бұрын

Poor girl wants to naturalize and they're all like oh no she doesn't look Korean lol

@daano465

Жыл бұрын

To be fair, If you weren't born in Korea (or have even lived there), don't speak the language, and you're only half Korean ethnically speaking. How Korean are you really?

@Fartsquad_

Жыл бұрын

@he2295 I mean.,. What ., they should lie to her and say she looks Korean when even from her skull shape and side profile, she doesn’t look fully asian?

@turtellok4964

8 ай бұрын

@@daano465 genetically you're 50% korean in that case

@turtellok4964

8 ай бұрын

@@Fartsquad_ she does look very asian though, not all half asian people look that asian

I can totally relate to this girl. In Germany (where I was born and raised) I‘m the turkish girl and in the turkey I‘m german.. So I was never welcomed in both countries.

@wmmv2019

Жыл бұрын

Don't see it as a rejection from your both countries... you're enriched by cultural diversity. You're citizen of the world - the future. I told that to my kids and because their culture and ethnic backgrounds they learn many languages and very much equipped with many cultural knowledge. it's natural in our family to speak more than 2 languages. my kids speak 4 languages. I think you probably speak 3 languages - English,german and turkish?... Embrace your genetic privilege. Most mixed children are prettier and smarter because of genetic cocktail.

@gizostn8891

Жыл бұрын

@@wmmv2019 thank you for your kind words.. So happy to hear about this. Bless you! ❤️

@wmmv2019

Жыл бұрын

@@gizostn8891 you're welcome 😊 take care and have a blessed day 🙌

I wanted to hug her! Felt like she really needed a friend! What a wonderful person she was, I enjoyed hearing her story very much.

One of the best duos on this channel, I love them 😂

This made me realize that not everyone has the same sort of identity crisis that mixed people do. For me I’ve been dealing with it for as long as I remember and subconsciously was under the assumption that everyone felt this way but now I realize some people don’t even think twice about their identity or are worried that their own culture won’t accept them…..wild

One of the best videos this channel has done. Please consider doing more fascinating content like this than the generic stuff everyone does. Your channel can really stand out this way.

4:25 Her FATHER is Korean!!!!! That is a game-changer! Now I view this entire view and her differently!

I'm not of mixed race but I can totally relate to this. My great grandparents (and ancestors) were from India hence my Indian appearance. My grandparents, parents and I myself were born in Surinam. I've been living in the Netherlands since I was a teenager and for 31 years now. In my opinion this frequently asked question "where are you from?" is hard to answer.

@eternalptgmx

Жыл бұрын

@@zetavalentine you guys use that word over there? wow in the usa it's considered very offensive to use it. cultural differences. interesting!

@jadejimenezschrodingerskitten

Жыл бұрын

@@zetavalentinenot even biracial or multiracial?

@tomorrow.

Жыл бұрын

@@zetavalentine ohh wow!! as an Indian I love this term " coloured" over being called brown. Everyone doesn't fit when they call us brown 😂 like what will ppl like us who have fairer skin or darken skin than brown or sharper features or mongolid like east asian will do. Coloured sounds more inclusive.

@he2295

Жыл бұрын

Im indian American and like the term colored more also.

being half german and half thai , I relate to this so much. My mom who is thai never teaches me thai though I still feel more connected to the thai culture. In germany I’ve sometimes also gotten a few racist comments and in thailand everyone or a lot actually spoke to me in thai. I feel like I have to fit into the asian and western beauty standard at the same hence I developed a kind of body dismorphia . My dream is to move to thailand in the future and get to learn the language !!!

I can kind of understand her as a mixed person myself but I never felt linked to either side's ancestry or culture... I've always just felt that I'm a human, but not that either side's past culture or race/ethnicity had any meaning to me as an individual. That being said, like she mentions other people can still treat you strangely depending on what they think you look like and that's been very common in my USA home country.

@NextExiter

Жыл бұрын

I think she wants to live in a country that views her as closest to their ideal beauty standard. She has no problem fitting in to the major cosmopolitan areas of the US, she's gorgeous. She doesn't just want to fit in, she wants to also stand astride.

I love her and I love how she said that we should stretch out the standard and not define people's nationality just by their appearence or judgements

I relate to her so, so much, I'm a little bit overwhelmed right now... 😅 Having an identity crisis that your sibling(s) can't relate to, Wondering if I gave any right at all to call myself half-Mexican if I can't speak the language... I would so love to just sit down and have a long, long conversation with her... This really spoke to me. Thank you AwesomeWorld!

@WitchySelene

Жыл бұрын

I feel the exact same way 😟 I also have siblings that don't seem as concerned to connect to our east Asian side, but seem to be a lot more concerned about our Mexican side. Everyone here in the USA assumes I'm Asian, but Koreans don't cause I don't look Korean enough. When I say my name everyone gets confused and asks if I'm Latina, but then says I'm not really cause I can't speak Spanish well. Everyone treats me as white, when I'm not?? Her statement of feeling like she doesn't belong anywhere hits hard. But I love both sides and want to connect to both sides, so I'm trying hard to learn both languages. I know it won't really change peoples opinions of me.. but at least it'll be a little easier. Or, hopefully it will just help ME to feel confident when I say I'm Korean AND Mexican....

@stuckintheblackholeofkpop2043

Жыл бұрын

@@WitchySelene Oh man, I feel you Selene, I feel you...❤️❤️ You're not alone-- we got this! :)

@WitchySelene

Жыл бұрын

@@stuckintheblackholeofkpop2043 thanks 🥺💜

@stuckintheblackholeofkpop2043

Жыл бұрын

@@WitchySelene ❤️❤️

@sweethunnigirl908

2 күн бұрын

i feel u, I'm half German but I can't speak the language (my dad just didn't decide to speak to me in his native language for whatever reason) which makes me really annoyed :(( now i gotta use my free time to learn german which is def harder grammatically compared to english.

girl i relate to you SO much, i’m korean (whole family tree is) but i’m the only one born in singapore. growing up in local schools, my english was way better than my korean. (i can understand korean but i’m not able to read it like quickly e.g. watching movies, and sometimes i don’t understand when my parents talk). during holidays, we visit our relatives in korea but i don’t understand them and i feel so insecure of it. many times i just wish i was born in korea and was good at the language like all my other family members. i felt so excluded. but knowing that you also went through something similar to this, i will also try to improve my korean :) thank you for this video

OMG, when i see her father i snapped, it's Jim lee, her dad is the godfather of US comics, batman superman x-men etc, this is crazy.

I just got back from Korea today and it is very interesting to be immersed in a homogenous society where ethnicity and nationality are tied together for most people's identities. I love trying new things and meeting new people so I can always continue to grow and expand my point of view towards the world.

@Memecoinwizard

Жыл бұрын

You know that's like almost every country in the world :). Indigenous people are mostly the majority of a countries' population.

Next get a half Korean that is mixed with black or a brown person and ask the same questions. I would truly like to know what they think and how they feel treated by Koreans. Thanks great 👍 episode. 👏👏💯😊

@olblue3478

Жыл бұрын

Han hyunmin

@Prof.SeverusSnape

Жыл бұрын

People are immature, naive, one-dimensional and obtuse and are frankly not ready for that kind of conversation.

@saymynamejk4409

Жыл бұрын

There was a video with a teenage blasian girl but on another channel. The mixed girls name is queenie? And she has a KZread channel as well

@Jn-Fit

Жыл бұрын

Queenie! I know she’s talked abt this a lot with people seeing she’s black first and not really acknowledging she’s also korean

As a half Asian girl, myself (Half British and Thai) I relate 100% to what she is saying in the video especially with her identifying with her Asian roots more and with the identity issues etc. I don't live in Thailand at the moment but whenever it's the summer holidays I go every year with my family to Thailand and from my experience going there it's been overall pretty positive, and I got a lot of people telling me I'm "sai" (idk how to spell it in English sorry) which means beautiful in Thai and also people looking at me etc. However, I am a very pale skinned Luk kreung (mixed) and I know I haven't experienced living there as a whole and I know that some people experiences might not be as good as mine whether its due to having a tanner complexation etc. I'm just speaking from my experience, and I have noticed a lot with half Asian that they have a more positive experience in their western country but for me I have not. And I like this video even more because I can 100% relate to her not fitting it and I never felt at home and identified with my British side. And I'm speak 100% fluently in English and I have a British accent, but I still go to school in the Uk and was born there so some could say I'm pretty westernized but I'm not really. And with the school thing I also like this girl in the video have experienced racism inside school and not in school and people thinking and saying I'm Chinese, Japanese or Korean and then there are people just saying racist things to me all the time like Ching Chong, chinxs, do I eat dogs. My experience overall is weird because before and even to this day I literally only know a couple simple things in Thai like counting to 1-20 and saying hello but that's barely anything yet the people in Thailand were so friendly. Yet I was born in the Uk and have been to school there and I'm fluent in the language, yet I have experienced so much racism and have not had such a good experience.

@johncalabro8710

Жыл бұрын

I am half Italian, quarter Irish and quarter English. I can not fully relate to the pain that you might go through and the identity issues. I grew being call the Italy kid but honestly turning to God help me a lot and finding your partner would help. If you embrace the Thai or English side when dating and when get marry and have children they will be mostly one side or the other and will not have as much problem with identity. Since they will be 75% and look like their friends. I have many friends who are mix euro-asian marrying a pure European or Asian and being much more happier. Anyway I wish you the best.

@Jess_icaaaaaaa

Жыл бұрын

@@johncalabro8710 TYSM! 🥰 Luckily now I have left school so I don't experience that horrible stuff to me anymore!

She's brave and strong for talking about her difficulties with racism. I hope she feels better getting it off her chest. To me people is just people. I wish her well in life. Thank you for making this video. Racism can only be stopped by us.

wow she is very kind and she is correct in her acknowledging she is korean.

Well she is stunning. The guy that told her she is pretty for an Asian is nuts, everywhere there is beautiful people. And Asian girls are pretty AF.

Thank you Awesome world , this was one of the best and most interesting videos I have seen on this channel for a long time .

Nice,I'm so happy whenever I see a notification of Awesome world,I love you so much from Rwanda in Africa

She also looked like she could be from the middle east, such as Iran or Egypt. Heejae always looks absolutely beautiful :)

@WWrsa

Жыл бұрын

egypt is in africa for goodness sakes

@surfdaze

Жыл бұрын

@@WWrsa yes it is. My comment was....she looks Asian but she also looks middle eastern due to her western features and dark hair

@ivetterodríguez-j4k

Жыл бұрын

@@WWrsa Have you tried to cross the Sahara desert?

I was born in Philippines speaking Tagalog and bisaya then came to the US when I was 8. I’m 22 now and honestly I feel like I belong more in the US since I grew up here. Never have I ever had an identity crisis where I thought I don’t belong in America and that my roots as a Filipino is important enough to move back. It honestly depends for each person. US was created by immigrants so once you get the US citizenship, you are as American as those that were born here.

@franciscovilcheavila960

Жыл бұрын

the" identity crisis" most of the time only got the usa people because they want to belong to some group every time .

“Wherever I go, I feel like a stranger” I relate to that phrase so much

I’m half Korean half Japanese, and whenever I mentioned it (especially towards Korean communities), they give an awkward or shocked reaction. It especially must have been difficult for my mother who is the Korean but was born and raised in Japan, so even our relatives find her as not being “real Korean”.

@KumihoGhost

Жыл бұрын

Oh my gosh in all honesty same here! As someone who is also half Korean half Japanese I’ve had those similar experiences too!

@teovu5557

Жыл бұрын

koreans face a lot of bullying and passive aggresive racism in japan. and japanese the same in korea.

@seomei

9 ай бұрын

Same here! I'm also 한일혼혈 born and raised in Japan, and part of my Korean family is also from Japan ( since my grandma generation) but I grew up in the Korean community so my family in Japan don't identify as japanese but Koreans in Japan even if we wanted to japanese would never accept them as japanese, but in my case I've always seen myself as japanese since when I was a kid and decided to always go by my japanese name outside the family! It's kinda complicated but I feel much more rejected by koreans than japanese, even though I was born with Korean citizenship and I'm still a Korean citizen, Koreans don't wanna know about any of this to them I'm just japanese since I'm originally from Japan! Recently I moved to America and the Korean community here is even more complicated than the ones from Korea lol so now I don't even say I'm also Korean anymore I just introduce myself as japanese but I don't really like it because I see myself as japanese Korean now after so many years trying to be only japanese !

As a biracial person myself, I can totally relate to the identity crisis thing

Kudos to her for all she said. I felt the exact same as her regarding language, identity and roots. Although maybe not naturalizing lol. But I still have family in Korea I’ve never met.

When she said , " You're pretty for an Asian girl," man, my eyes welled up with tears... Nah boo, you're just a beautiful human in general. Fuck those racist haters😭💖💋

People of mixed races often look prettier than both parents. Genetics is an interesting thing.

@elangbam3115

Жыл бұрын

I don't think so. I have seen a lot of mix race people who look Fk up

@qweasdzxc

Жыл бұрын

selection bias. they're only showing you the relatively good looking ones

Whooooaaaa Jim Lee absolute Legend and favorite comic book artist of mine.

I am multiracial too. my birth father was half french and half spanish ecuadorian and my mother is half native ecuadorian and half chinese. So explaining my ethnicity and race to monoracial people is hard because they don't understand. Everyone wants sexuality, race, gender, ethnicity, etc in a particular box and if they don't know what box you go in, they can get confused or even sometimes hostile. I know what she means about never fitting in. I am all at the same time but none completely and that can be lonely. But at the same time being multiracial is a gift I wouldn't change. I think we see the world from a unique and sometimes more objective view than people who are very separated from others that way in never knowing life from a different race's point of view.

My heart dropped when I heard the questions. These kinds of questions are so othering, but I know the point was to elicit those answers from the two guests. I’m half Asian and half ashkenazi Jewish. I can’t even tell you how many times I’ve been told that my ethnicity is weird, been asked if my family eats cat, heard Holocaust jokes, etc. Seungri, hats off to you for going out of your way to learn about your heritage and learn to speak the language so fluently! Honestly, most people have no idea how hard it is to fight to access your own culture WHILE people are constantly telling you that you don’t belong. You’re an inspiration for all of us mixed people. Thank you for sharing your story. You were so composed in an interview with exclusively triggering questions for us mixed folk. You’re awesome 😊

Though I’m not mixed race, I can totally relate. I’m a South asian born, living in the Netherlands since I was raised here and then having moved to England and then back again I also struggle with identity. When other’s from other countries ask where I am from and I say the Netherlands, they always say but you don’t look Dutch, when I am in Pakistan, they don’t consider me full pakistani but more a foreigner too. It’s always a struggle and it feels like you don’t belong anywhere because people won’t accept it. Luckily I live in a very multicultural city so there are many people like me. It’s still a struggle though.

This is one of the most interesting videos on Awesome World for me. I actually teared up hearing about her experience against racism and identity crisis

와 너무 좋다ㅋㅋㅋ 아 진짜 너무 재밌다!!! Actually I'm half and half too so I can relate ㅎㅎ 고마워!!💙

I have two older sisters who aren’t too interested in Korea either, and I came to Korea for the same reason as the guest in the show. I resonate a lot with her feelings about frequent questions we receive and how she identified with both sides of her ethnicities ❤

I really appreciated this video. As a Korean adoptee I would love to see an interview of a Korean adoptee raised outside Korea…

This video is very relatable, being half Korean and half Cuban. I have always felt that I don't really fit in anywhere, moreover since I was born and raised in Sweden. What I struggled with the most was explaining that I don't speak Korean because my mother (who is Korean) grew up in the Sovietunion which is the reason I speak Russian instead of Korean. Such Koreans are referred to as koryo-saram (고려사람) btw.

OMG!!! I recognized her famous father immediately. Of course, I've been reading comics since I was three.

For me, I have a Mexican Mom but I’m white because of my Irish/Russian dad. For me, it’s frustrating when people say I’m not a true Mexican just because I’m not tan. I was born in the states, but I fully embrace the love of the culture that I have in being a Mexican/American. I even would love to be fluent in Spanish someday.

As a half korean and half mexican i found it so relatable because i experienced bullying for not fitting into the standard. I very much agree with the fact that they need to stretch the standard on what a korean should look like.

it's times like these i can feel how different the thinking is in korea as far as what can be accepted and what is almost "rejected" or turned away... i watched a video once of a korean person doing 23&me and i remember they didn't like that they had a small amount of dna that wasn't from korea. i grew up in america, where everyone loves having diverse backgrounds, and my parents are from afghanistan, which people might not realize is an incredibly ethnically diverse country. it's in the center of asia so you can always find afghans who look like they could be from anywhere in the world. i kind of understand what they mean about seeing the "korean feeling" in people, because i definitely notice the "afghan feeling" when i spot an afghan, but the strange thing is that it's not limited to physical features for me. it's more like a vibe. it's kind of cool to see how different the cultures are, because everyone i've ever met has a little bit of everything, whereas it seems like koreans all want to be only one thing.

You both are looking so cute ☺️

this video has very strong message and it's true the more languages you speak the better we can understand each other. It needed strength from the lady to go and explore her roots. Fighting!

Appreciated this topic so much! I have a biracial family (my daughter is white/Chinese).

I like awesome world contents 👍👍 Contents like this brings cultures together. I would love to see all cultures of the world here if that's possible 🙂

i'm mixed in a way.. and many will have dealt with this too. i'm hispanic, but raised in usa. my mom spoke spanish, dad english... to each other, simulatneously understanding each other... so when i was a kid, i heard 2 languages at the exact same time. my parents said i barely talked at all, until i started school, where english was of course the language used, in usa. one perk of this is... when there is a movie with subtitles, no matter the language, i listen and read simultaneoulsy, and its as if i am fully understanding the foreign language on screen. i forget im even reading the subs lol...

Always excited when I see half koreans who speak the language! I always felt so weird that most of the half korean Americans I know can't speak it and korean was my first language. Its never too late to embrace your cultures, whatever they are, no matter what u look like!

uh, no ones gonna mention that Seungri is Jim Lee's daughter?!?!?!

wow... that was so interesting to watch! Even I sometimes have an identity crisis and like my family is all Chinese but having had grown and born in Spain sometimes I don't feel 100% Spanish nor 100% Chinese ...

I love the challenge in this one.

Omo heejae unniiiiiiii 😍💜

Está evidente que a garota coreana estava destilando inveja por causa da beleza da garota mestiça.

I'm mixed but I always refused my other half from my mother. I didn't grow up with her so I didn't have any cultural link to her side that's why I identified myself as spanish. But people always remembered me that I was different. Oh you talk well for being a foreigner. Oh you look exotic where are you from? You look so different. Comments like this made me felt an outsider when I felt myself as an equal. I had a strong identity crisis when I was a kid because a women told my father where he adopted me and he said I was his blood child but the women denied it saying I looked too different to be his real daughter... so that made me feel I was adopted and there was a time I wanted to travel around the world to find my true family because I thought I was adopted... now that I'm an adult I'm okay but sometimes I still have some identity crisis. Now I'm trying to embrace my other half and learn about my roots. I hope to visit my mother's country in the future and learn the language and culture 💜

Seungwoo: IT Powerhouse Korea (Samsung) Also Seungwoo: I use iPhone 12 Pro Max I'm crying out tears HAHAHA

Wow that’s cool. The half korean lady’s father is Jim Lee who is a well known comic illustrator especially for DC comics

It definitely depends on the individual with regards to sense of belonging. However, I would love it if they feel they belong to all their heritage. It's amazing how she learnt Korean with such determination since she mentioned her family doesn't know it as her father stopped using Korean when he was young and it really is difficult to learn more than one language. I'm trying to learn Japanese and it's so difficult. The bullying is definitely terrible. I live in the UK and must say have come across plenty of nasty things said to me, I'm naturally small as well so became a real target for others. It's an interesting video since some of the topics can be hard to talk about. Back when I was at school, for most of my school years I used to be the only Asian which is sometimes very difficult due to bullying. People mock me for all sorts of things and it got so bad when I was younger when some people at school ask me to say or teach them some basic words in Cantonese which was just out of curiosity and all I always hesitate and sometimes refuse because I always thought they wanted to mock me or something which many kids did.

This reminds me of how my teacher is half Japanese. 💀 But people keep coming up to her and asking if she's Mexican.

@bes03c

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My sister in law is half Hawaiian. People constantly speak Spanish to her.

Half Filipino half Thai here. I guess I feel fortunate in a way. Because I'm still basically southeast Asian either way (although the two cultures are totally different). So normally most people won't confuse me for anything else. Which I am perfectly okay with.

Damn she is beauitful. 🥰

I'm mixed and being stuck in the middle kinda sucks. Being in a big cosmopolitan city helps because there are more varieties of people so you get/feel singled out less. Also I feel like if you're mixed you often pick a side or pick neither and explore a whole new culture. My bf is German and I feel at home in Germany.

This is great content 👍🏻

I love ur contents and characters 💓

In Indonesia iḿ called Dutch and in the Netherlands an Indonesian. My two sisters have nothing to do with Indonesia, they don't speak it, work as lawyers, don't go on holiday to Indonesia either. But I don't want to lose my Indonesian nationality even if I speak it badly. So I totally understand Seungri, in Rotterdam a small place we have 175 ethnicities ,31 more then New York and Rotterdam is very small. Through colonization from the Dutch , we are mingled and mixed . We have Indonesians with light bleu eyes, and blond hair like my sisters . 😂

REALLY LOVED this episode!

Good discussion and I hope everyone learns more about the challenges of mixed race children and adults.

I don't know, as a Brazilian, something that I really love about Brazil is that we don't put so much labels on people talking about their races. For example, when both said that mixed-koreans looked less Korean beacuse of its appearence. This thing doesn't happen in Brazil... the majority of us are mixed-race and here, your ethnicity and looking does not define if you are Brazilian or not. All of us are Brazilian, it doesn't matter if you or your family came from Korea, Italy, Egypt, USA, etc... It may be so hard for foreign/mixed-race people to go to these conservative and more traditional countries where everybody label you like foreigner, cause it just excludes you in a way that you feel you're not part of that society. I'm mixed-race myself and i'm proud of it, I learned and still learn a lot from my culture diferrences. And personally, It would be horrible speaking with people that are not okay with that and believe in "true blood" thing. We all can be both races. But even if we are not mixed-race people? That's okay too, because society and nation should not be about race and "pure blood", but it should be about all of us that are humans. Althought i'm half Italian, I don't know how to speak Italian and that's totally okay, we don't NEED to know everything.

Would be interesting to hear their thoughts on naturalized Korean citizens and their children. It's one thing to maybe accept a mixed Korean as Korean, but what about a European, African, Middle easterner or Indian? What about their kids(no korean mix) born after acquiring citizenship?

@franciscovilcheavila960

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yeah is a good point, on example is the korean kids with foreign background like the ones who appear in the korean program MY NEIGHBOR CHARLES.

5:45 it's interesting how our perception can change depending on our backgrounds. for an asian she looks more western, but i'm white and i think she looks very asian.

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To me she looks like a light skinned south Asian

I understand what they mean, but I sometimes take issue when people say things like, “I’m half American, half Korean.” I know they’re not trying to imply this, but it does suggest that people that are 100% ethnically Korean aren’t American. It doesn’t matter where your ancestors are from, anyone can be 100% American. Maybe if one parent was American but you grew up in Korea and hardly visited the States you could say you’re half American? Maybe? Otherwise if you grew up in or immigrated to the U.S. you’re an American, even if you’re also Korean. As for me, I (American of mixed North/West European descent) am hoping to eventually have kids with my fiancé (American who is ethnically Korean, born in Korea, but immigrated to the US as an adult). I’m hoping that as they grow up my future children are able to strongly identify as both Korean and American, and enjoy the best of both countries and both cultures.

My cousin (5) is half Irish/Italian and Filipino and his father is trying to teach him Tagalog and it is the funniest thing I’ve ever seen in my life. He has the biggest brown eyes in the world.

im also mixed, half german, half sheperd

I'm half Mexican and half German and I can relate to what she feels... I feel closer to my Mexican side of my family vs my German side bc of how I was raised. I Can speak Spanish and very little German... but it's hard to feel like you truly belong bc you can tell I'm not fully Mexican... I actually get mistaken for being Arab 😅

@daano465

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what does fully Mexican even mean? Lots of Mexicans have European ancestry right? Or are mixed with natives, or fully native.

0:22 😂😂😂 Oh Heejae....🤣💗

to a (much lesser) extent, i think children of immigrants can have similar feelings. living as a minority in your country while not understanding the language/culture of your ancestors can be very conflicting. i imagine it’s much harder for people who are mixed, and i have so much respect for everyone who’s worked toward learning and embracing their identities

I was sad all day and now I am happy 😊 you guys are so cute

I'd like to thank you all for all your kind comments, I'd like to wish each of you, well everyone actually, a prejudice free life and I hope everyone you meet will appreciate how unique and special you are (1 in 8 billion)

my dad is Chinese and Cape Verdean while my mom is Dominican and I've always had this sense of "I dont really belong to either or accepted to either" most of my life 20 years of life. I love these mixed race videos. they're oddly comforting

I am half Korean and black and their responses at first sounded very typical of Koreans, very ignorant. I am glad they brought her out and made them say this stuff to her face because they realized how hurtful and ignorant they were being, even if it wasn’t intentional. A lot of Koreans have never left and have no idea of what is going on outside of their country. Mixing is also very frowned upon so they have this predisposition to not accepting anything that is not aligned with their hardlined values. There’s a mentality with Koreans that the half bloods aren’t good enough and that we aren’t Korean. I live in Austin and when I meet Korean nationals here they are always shocked that I identify as Korean and some have even insisted that I am not because I was not born there. But to me, my cultural identity is Korean more than American because of how I was raised and my experiences.

@jjongscorner7476

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@@seohn she's mixed, not only American~ and she said she identifies more with her Korean side because she grew up through the korean culture:) she didn't talk about nationality, just cultural background

I like how heejae is like complimenting seungri and defending seungri. she gives dong geurami and jessi vibes fr.

2:26 sounded incredibly condescending from Heejae, even within context

I feel that one man My mom is French and my Dad is Australian but ethnically Korean It's been a bit painful to connect with aussie and korean culture cuz they got a bit mixed together and i don't really know how to explain my roots when people ask me I've been living in France most of my life and in here It's either people thinking i'm "chinese" or people who don't believe me until i speak korean Cuz i don't fully have the aussie accent when i speak english i get "You don't sound Australian" a lot, which kinda hurts Then in korean my accent is native but I make a lot of mistakes and people get confused about what i mean Wherever i am i'm never fully gonna belong and i guess i'm just gonna have to deal with it I think other mixed people knows what i mean

Being half of a culture that has so much pride in heritage is very hard because you’ll always be seen as the other half first. AnD don’t even start on patriotism 🙄.

I'm not mixed but my experience is similar. My parents are immigrants and I just don't happen to look like people from their home country. So I used to identify myself only by their culture until I visited their home country and realized that everyone thought I was a foreigner. I was so shocked that I had no country where I felt like I belonged to its people. Recently I've moved to a more multi cultural city with many more people like me or my parents. I haven't heard a single racist remark ever since and I feel so happy being here. I know that racial bias still exists here in many people's mind as people of the same ethnicity can obviously relate to each other more easily but they are co existing somewhat peacefully. Regarding my identity, I simply identify as a child of immigrants and a citizen of this country and now especially this city. I can neither deny my parents' nor this countries cultural influence on my identity.

Interesting. My grand-daughter will be mixed race White/Filipina and I expect her to face similar challenges.

That's the great thing about being Indian, we can look like everybody