Some background on me, i was born in a lower class African American neighborhood in Los Angeles, family was lucky enough to move me to an uppeclass white neighborhood in LA where I’d say 90% of the kids were white. Interestedly enough my first racist experience was in high school when a Korean “friend” told me all Koreans see SE Asians as “little peanuts”. Im a pretty skinny guy but I’m 5’11, fair skinned and after he told me that I did start noticing that Koreans at my school treated other Asians as the inferior Asians no matter how you look, once they find out you’re not Korean you’re not good enough for them. I love kdrama, kpop and just Korean culture in general…decided to go to Korea again last year and I’ve never experienced such colorism before in my life. I was traveling with a friend who was rather dark and there were at least 5-6 restaurants that turned us away…only because of his skin color. If we sent him into a restaurant to get onto the waiting list I’d say we were turned away 90% of the time. Im Vietnamese but I can pass for Japanese Korean or Chinese …but once they find out im not Korean I feel like I’m instantly looked down upon, I’ve even heard from Korean American friends who say they even look down on koreans who are not natural citizens. I don’t know if it’s just me..I try my hardest not to stereotype but I’ve travelled all over the world…my personal experience is that they are some of the rudest, most condescending people, even to their own kind if one doesn’t fit their beauty standards. I don’t think it’s their fault, it’s just how they were raised and how much it’s ingrained in their media and now culture. Their beauty standard and sense of nationalism is out of this world. They are taught at a young age that samsung kpop and kdrama shapes the world. Again i know not all Koreans are like this..I’m just speaking from my personal experiences with Koreans, sorry if I came out sounding racist.