This might be the wrong sub for this… but i think I just got blocked and indirectly called racist for saying that I didn’t think most Koreans would be offended by this, based on the Korean vloggers I’ve watched and threads I’ve read about the culture. The general sentiment i gathered from everything i watched/read was that things are only offensive if you are *trying* to be offensive. Basically that if you say something in ignorance, not trying to be disrespectful, as a foreigner, Korean people will probably not be offended (generally speaking, because of course some things are just offensive by nature). Is this true? Or am I way off here?
Contrary to this person’s belief and treatment, i actually care about learning about and being respectful of other cultures, so I genuinely want to know if i deserved being blocked and called racist 😅 I’m also one of those who’s pretty consistently irked by the “all East Asian cultures are the same” misconception so this was extra ironic (and frankly offensive)
Ps. To be clear, *I* did not call it Korean sushi, I actually know the difference, lol. I was only responding to someone saying that calling it that was disrespectful.
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