Harry Harris, Washington's envoy to South Korea, has been subjected to heated vitriol on social media and by anonymous netizens for his mustache.
The gist of the criticism is that with the mustache, Harris resembles the reviled Japanese leaders who ruled the Korean Peninsula with an iron fist during the Japanese occupation. In recent years, issues relating to the war have become a point of contention between Japan and South Korea. Fierce debates have broken out over the status of"comfort women" -- Korean women forced into providing sexual services for Japanese soldiers -- and whether Japanese corporations should pay individual reparations for Koreans who were forced into labor.
South Korea is a homogenous society without racial diversity like the United States. The CIA World Factbook doesn't even list other ethnic groups living in South Korea on the country's page, instead just referring to the country as"homogenous." Mixed-race families are rare and xenophobia remains surprisingly common.
Harris said he believes the argument that he resembles Japanese wartime leaders"cherry picks" history. He cited two mustachioed Korean independence figures, Ahn Jung-geun and Ahn Chang-ho, as proof.
“Under Japanese rule, many Koreans were brutalized, murdered and enslaved” is fake news by CNN . Why does CNN report the fake news about the colonization in Korea peninsula by Japan without any evidence? THE RACISM BY KOREAN IS THEIR NATIVE SENCE, NO RELATION TO JAPAN.
Really? Who knew? I just saw a dude trying to have a Tom Selleck stache. lol
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