#Asian drama

[kateknowsdramas]

It's hard to believe that you accepted me for who I am.

[dailywoodohwan]

WOO DO-HWAN as JO YEONG THE KING: ETERNAL MONARCH (2020) 1.01

[dramashii]

Seung Hyo & Seok Ryu's relationship (with texts)

LOVE NEXT DOOR (2024)

[nunafilms]

Affair - the Series | Episode 6 รักเล่นกล dir. Pantip Vibultham

[kimgoeun]

My Sweet Mobster (Ep.2)

[heretherebedork]

They are gonna be dangerous.

[fujunfuren]

THE PRINCESS ROYAL (2024)

Bonus: Jinglan representing us

[nifftydeary]

He's so gorgeous

[peridot-tears]

Hey MDZS fandom. I want you guys to be careful interacting with this person.

If you don't already know, Chinese people have had a long history with cultural erasure when it comes to taking on English-language names. It started with imperialism, and continues as a way to "assimilate" and avoid mockery of our language in western countries.

For Chinese diaspora like myself, it's another form of racism we face, to the point where some of us are reclaiming our names in everyday life. Here's an article about this movement happening across Asian diasporas in the United States -- just to name one instance out of many.

The responses to this post reflect that:

You can see that my comment assumed "good faith." However, OP deleted these comments and blocked me. (That didn't stop other people from calling it out as well, though I have to assume that if OP was so offended by my comment, the next few people will receive the same treatment.)

I honestly didn't like whipping up the diaspora statement -- that I wrote with multiple Chinese diaspora fans of MDZS, all of us hailing from multiple different countries and backgrounds, our ancestry coming from completely different regions of China -- because it meant that we were encountering another microaggression.

If you ever wonder why MDZS and danmei fandoms in general seem to be so bereft of Chinese diaspora voices, that's absolutely because of these microaggressions: Someone makes a joke, writes a story, writes some meta, that is culturally ignorant at best, offensive and harmful at worst, and when we gently correct them, explaining why it's racist, the person in question shuts us down, dismisses us, gets defensive, or worse.

Regardless of where you are -- fandom, social media, on the street, at work, at school -- as long as you are interacting with other people, your words matter and affect other people. That includes being racially offensive, even if you didn't intend to be. It's how you respond to the people you've insulted that reveals your character, how willing you are to be complicit in their mistreatment.

My rule of thumb has always been this -- if multiple people, including those of the culture you've just made a microaggressive joke about, find it unfunny, racist, or harmful, then you listen. Dismiss or ignore them, then yes -- you absolutely are racist.

[kateknowsdramas]

Did you fall for me then? For me, it was way before. Way before.

[ohifonlyx33]

I'm just wondering about the demographic overlaps.

Sorry to fans in the "other" category, I don't have space for all of them so I started with what I know to be popular from my own experience.

[koreandragon]

LOVE NEXT DOOR (2024) ep.05

[dramashii]

Baek Sa Eon wearing his wedding ring.

WHEN THE PHONE RINGS (2024)

[nunafilms]

Affair - the Series | Episode 6 รักเล่นกล dir. Pantip Vibultham

[kimgoeun]

My Sweet Mobster (2024)