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Post 21: Something new in my life

Something new that has entered my life is foreign music. I've become more interested in music from other countries. I find it amazing how American rap and hip-hop has influenced others and how they change the culture to make it their own. For example in South Korea, they have a variety of music genres that are inspired from American music but it's different in their own way. They have K-soul, K-RnB, K-trap, and the most commonly known is K-pop. But the downside is because they are foreign and are from a conserved country they often do very racist renditions mostly pertaining to black people. It kind of puts you off a little bit when you find out an artist you like thinks that all your people are ugly and ghetto because of their skin tone from the multiple stereotypes painted by bad media and likes to paint their skin black to mock you. And this is not only a downside to K-music but to also every other foreign music.

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  1. It sounds like you really take an interest in music and actually take the time out to learn different backgrounds on each. Kinda remind me of my younger sisters. They’re more into Korean music which i think is classified as K-pop.

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