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Something to note is that the term Transracial originally applied to people of a specific race being adopted into families of another race - which is an important facet of many people’s identity
Wow I thought it was because of Oli London 😱
@ville__ bro. I’m so confused. There wasn’t any replies when I commented???
@ville__ you changed your comment to match mine… I see now.
@ville__ it do say it's edited tho
Wow I thought it was because Oli London 😱
these people didn't grow up getting told their homemade lunch with kimchi and fish in it was "disgusting" and "smells awful." they didn't have people go up to them and pull their eyelids back saying "ching chong" to them. they weren't the ones getting attacked for "eating bats" and "causing covid" in 2020. they just want the supposed "benefits" of being Korean because its attractive to them but don't realize the actual discrimination those people face, which is what i think is the most insulting part of the whole RCTA thing. like not to say that you have to go through all that awful crap to be a "real Korean," but its clear the way these people victimize themselves for being white that they don't even take any of the actual racism going on towards Asian people seriously
its literally just fetishization. they like the looks and thats it
So you can change your gender but not your race?
@@molasorrosalom4846 is gender dependent on ancestry
If you can change your gender, than why does a trans man need a prostate exam after the age of 40?
Who are you to say that someone can't change their race?
It's crazy that the entire definition of trans-racial has changed🤯 it used to mean someone was raised in a different racial heritage, i.e. a black child being raised by a white family.
It used to have a really Sweet meaning
Dude I'm argentinian and I've been living in usa for a few months, and one random girl from school sat down besides me and said like "Hi. I heard you are latina. You dont look good trying to play white. Don't wear that. Own your culture 😊"
I was wearing a maxi skirt and a sweater. How is that me trying to be white/american??? Like, girl. Shut up.
Luckily I became friends with a hondurian girl, they put us together in spanish class lol like "well here you go, another spanish speaking person", and she told me that this girl was a bit obsessed with being considered latina, cause she had ONE mexican grandparent.
I think this is definitely something deeper. I know that a lot of people dislike ethnic features of their communities that they can’t change without surgery. These community’s are for sure full of young people and teens who have such high insecurity and want to change their race to somehow become a different person and think that changing their race would make their life’s so much better. This is obviously a delusion and an escape from their reality. I really hope they get the help they need to love themselves.
as someone who is east asian adopted into a white family… i cannot even imagine what this trend would’ve made me feel as a teenager who deeply resented being asian. anyone who genuinely has this mindset has no idea what kind of discrimination asians in the west experience nor do they have any real understanding or respect for our cultures (exemplified so well by how they love to flatten japanese tv and korean music and chinese makeup all into one asian image). i also do honestly believe that the majority of rtcas are trolls lol.
I’m sorry that happened to you I can’t imagine what I would feel if someone said “I’m rcta American->El Salvadoran”
This community never fails to drive me absolutely nuts
The answer to all the Why? questions is because they're 13. We had foodkin on tumblr back in the day. They know they're not a burrito.
i fell down the rcta rabbit hole a while ago. most people were mocking rcta, but i did see some people who took it seriously. i saw a girl who was from india and claimed her skin had lightened after she applied whitening creams and listened to subliminals, which just goes to show that a lot of this community is born out of insecurity with one's own features.
They've been telling Black people for Generations how awful we are as a people but then at the same time they love themselves some Black Entertainment.
exactly.
literally, how are you going to be racist and then switch up, wanting to be black because a lot of our features and culture is attractive online?
Or maybe they just like entertainment in general?
Like what features?
@@molasorrosalom4846 or maybe they like being racist and like Black Entertainment at the same time
I love that it’s only ‘trendy’ races that these kids will consider. It’s ignoring the struggle that some ethnicities get for just existing in a structurally prejudiced society. It’s like a very surface level understanding of a culture and an identity. We ethnic minorities and poc aren’t a monolith. I get cultural appreciation, I love learning and appreciating different cultures but I feel this is tone deaf. I’ve experienced racism my whole life and I’m white passing. I can’t imagine how other people would feel about this who have had more negative experiences around their identity. Funnily enough ‘orientalism’ was very trendy before and seems to be again.
I thought your pimple patch was a speck of dust on my computer screen and spent 15 seconds trying to rub it off your nose before I realized
i’ve been waiting for someone to talk about rtca bc it’s wild and i used to see it all the time
I love that your camera just goes HEY BUT CHECK OUT THESE STICKERS ON THIS WATER BOTTLE THO. Thank you camera. Those are some pretty cool stickers.
When I see shit like this that is so chronically online, like these people have lost any and all contact with reality, I just think like. These are real people. These are actual human beings, flesh and blood, like you or I. And also since most of these people are teenagers it’s like. These people go to school. These people grab their backpacks and head out to school and have classes and homeworks and grades
@ville__ what is blud yappin about
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@ville__ OP's statement also applies to you, lol. Please go outside for once :)
though race is a man-made concept, it is factored and determined by variables that are unable to be changed such as: where you were born, what race your direct family is/was, what cultures you were brought up if it was a major influence of your upbringing. these are all variables that cannot be changed because they already happened, in the past.
and we all here know, but if there's some dumb f*ck out there who can read this, NO. it's not like being transgender, what tf?? and i will use kid gloves to lightly explain how this is different: transgender is knowing you are not the gender you were assigned at birth by someone else based off of gen!tals from a man-made concept of gender to predetermine who you are before you can tell someone else "hey, actually incorrect guess buddy" umm....and also a fun fact, transgenderism and nonbinary genders have been around longer than the english language has been, so....
thank u
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This was really interesting to listen to. I'd vaguely heard of this phenomenon before, but I learned a lot from this video. As an East Asian person, it's very weird to me that someone would want to "become" Asian just because it's trendy or because they want to be different. I honestly don't understand how a race can be trendy in the first place 😅
If these people want to be that race then they need to be willing to take on the oppression that comes with being anything but white. But they don’t have to because they are white. Thank you for sharing, I’m so happy I haven’t existed on these areas of the internet wow.
it's honestly so weird and sad seeing people whose insecurities about their own features and appearance are so strong that they push themselves into this strange fetishization of asian features and culture (or at least, what they perceive as asian features and culture). i think it's also important to point out how only certain parts of "asian culture" (mainly east asian) are being fetishized and perceived as cool and interesting by society as a whole, while other races and ethnicities that are demonized. that's why almost all of the RCTA/ECTA people you see are claiming to be korean, japanese, etc. and not nigerian, indian, etc. it's insane that me and my sibling are sometimes afraid of being seen as these weird, RCTA/ECTA, asian-fishers when we actually are half-asian and those aspects of ourselves ARE true to us.
i honestly don't feel sorry for them, poc can't run away from our race. we shouldn't be seen as someone's safehaven to freely commodify/caricaturize our features or culture and adapt them like a costume all without the struggle of actually being poc as if we're not even real ppl. its a symptom of dehumanization and its morbid.
I have seen this on my FYP for about a year now, and although it’s disgusting regardless, 95% of it IS bait. Most of these accounts and people are trolling, but still, hella weird.
To what end though? People who spend so much energy "trolling" in such ways are still clearly not in a healthy place in their life.
Same as snarkers, same as folks who pull harmful/offensive 'pranks' yet insist "it's just a joke!"
Ppl who devote their entire persona on something false clearly are trying to feel smth positive out of such interactions and it can quickly go off the rails
we have similar wizarding issues, he says i’m not allowed to clean my room i’m only allowed to make more trash and dye my hair
The standards of Race and Gender keep getting changed, at this point I’m not surprised people don’t look how they were born.
I shouldn't need to say this but here: Gender identity is an innate part of a person's identity, if you take a cis boy and raise them as a girl, they will still identify as a boy, and vise versa. This is incredibly well known and there are cases of it like David Reimer, and tens of thousands of intersex cases.
It's a part of your identity that you are born with, as much as your personality. Race is an entirely defined as being cultural and sociological, (it's made up) and saying otherwise is incredibly racist.
When I was a lot younger and first starting to use social media I deeply envied people who aren't white for their beauty. I fully believed it was impossible to be beautiful if you were white. Now that I've matured and grown, I can see why that was a bad thing. But even still it's hard not to compare myself to people who genetically just have different features as me even still now. Had I vocalized those feelings and received support, I might have tried something like this. But I was 13. Kids don't have developed brains and yeah they can understand basic rights from wrongs, but a lot of schools and parents don't teach that this type of stuff is wrong.
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RCTA is giving MGTOW energy for some reason...
(MGTOW = Men Going Their Own way, aka "I'm an incel but I feel superior about it")
Thats a really fucked up thing for that wizard to do ngl
Okay, I need some help with this one: i fully support people who are transgender. People who claim to be transracial feels incorrect to me. But the arguments that people use against transracial people are similar to or the same as those used against transgender people. So what am i missing that explains why transgender feels okay and transracial doesnt?
I'm struggling with the same thing. I fully support trans people, probably half of my friends are trans and NB. Maybe it's because I'm older, idk.
I think cos rcta is based in fetishisation, they aren't born feeling this way they just do it cos they think the people from that race are pretty/cooler than their own without acknowledging all the racism/orientalism those people have to endure
i had to think on this for a while before too, it basically just boils down to the fact that gender is a social construct; a made up “rule” that realistically means nothing. it’s not based on anything concrete other than the idea of what it means to be any gender. rcta isn’t the same because your race and culture is something that cannot be changed, it’s based on where you come from, genetics, etc. also feel like i should include that transracial’s true meaning is someone from one race being adopted by someone of another race. might be helpful to keep that in mind as well since people unfortunately use the term to mean both and causes a lot of confusion, probably intentional honestly
Race is based off variables that you cannot innately change such as your ancestors, where you were born, your culture, your skin color and ethnic features.
I think it has to with the fact that gender isn't something you get from your parents, race is. Everyone has a little bit of the other sex in them, the same can't be said about race, we all get a 50/50 for our sex but not for race (yes I know that gender and sex are different but thus is the best explanation I could come up with)
I'm brown because my parents are brown, and their parebts were too, however, I'm not afab because my ancestors were
I just wanna thank grayson for having that giant water bottle in the frame because it reminded me that I haven’t had any water today 💀
I honestly cant make fun of or hate RCTA girls because i know they're probably just very young and insecure like i was in school when i had brief weeb phase of wanting to be Japanese.
Girls are exposed to unrealistic beauty standards since gaining consciousness and every single one of them is deeply insecure before even fully knowing what that means, if anything girls wanting to change their race for "more trendy one" makes me sad because i know they're very pretty but at some point of their short lives were purposely made to feel ugly. They probably got into kpop as form of escapism, to find community and have fun but instead were exposed to more beauty standards and that messes with young brain a lot.
I hope the best for them, i hope they grow up into loving their bodies and all their human imperfections.
house of leaves spotted in the background!! good taste :3
I would die if someone said “I’m rcta American->El Salvadoran ”I can’t imagine what it is like for people who are actually Korean or Asian having people like this 😭
Im sorry this is so off topic but YOUR MH DOLLS!! YESS!! I rarely find people my age who still have a love for them or even liked them as a kid. So just ahhh love to see it
But on topic, another great video! People are so weird out here. Lots of delusionnn 0-0
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my dad uses this phenomenon as justification to think trans people dont exist
But- gender is a social construct, race isn't. Race is in your DNA and heritage, gender isn't, gender only exists when one starts experiencing life and being "taught" their gender by society.
Or at least that's what I think, lol.
@@Plohc7438well what about biological sex?
I want to add to the conversation.
I was a hardcore kpop fan for like 2/3 years. I never thought i coukd become korean lol, but I learned the language, wanted to try the dishes, was into the fashion, etc etc. that all came from a sort of alienation i felt from people in general. I thought maybe id fit in with them.
Turns out i was just autistic lol.
Maybe if rtca was popular back then i wouldve leaned into that too.
No but for real that same wizard has been squatting in my house for weeks!! What is up w that guy!!??
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I think it's a bit different than how you're presenting it-- it's a bunch of really self-conscious children who have ended up on the wrong side of the internet and have internalized a message that their race is bad/wrong and they want to change it (especially the person who made the tumblr post). Like the person from the tumblr post is clearly a child who has ended up on the wrong side of the internet and has internalized a self-loathing message--- hearing that post made me deeply sad for that person who thinks so poorly of themself and thinks the whole word is against them, and you implying that they are in fact athe awful person that they feel like they're being accused of being just. Cmon. That's a child who needs therapy, not a closeted racist.
Those things aren't mutually exclusive. Racism is taught, and unfortunately some kids don't get more perspective and understanding until it's too late.
@MillennialHippie that's true, but a child saying "I feel like the whole world hates me because of my race" isn't racist-- it probably would be if it stemmed from nothing or if it was said by an adult/someone who's educated enough to know better. But this is a child expressing a valid emotional response to stumbling on a side of the internet that no one should be on. I have seen fan spaces online (I won't name names but there are some pretty toxic ones out there) where ppl use "you're probably white" as a "gotcha" or comeback to any disagreement. And I don't mean racial-related disagreement, I mean "hey I like this character" "shut up you're probably white".
If it makes it any better, I'm not white so this isn't coming from a place of defensiveness, but a child who needs therapy is not someone who should be the prime example of a closeted or soon-to-be racist. That kid's clearly going through stuff and feels awful about themself, and there are actually real racists in the world, this self conscious child is not even remotely a problem
@@humanbeing1248
if you give context, it would make a good argument. But the whole "shut up your white" thing is probably in response to a character being a racist stereotype or something. Because I've been in fandom for a long time and 9 times out of 10, that's what happens. A lot of the time it is a gotcha because guess what, white people don't understand and choose to not understand why something is harmful to a racial minority.
@@humanbeing1248 i think its important to remember that there are other ppl on the other side of this *(ppl who are subjugated & oppressed irl on the basis of race who are now being dehumanized - aka made into costumes without their feelings or struggles being considered), white children aren't the only one's that exist and the ppl being primarily hurt by this issue are in fact east asian or other poc ppl, whether teenagers or not. regardless of the motive, appropriating and caricaturizing another race will always be racist, and while these ppl probably do need help, their actions in no way exist in a vacuum.
@boolowoertheenappydreaded5359 of course, I'm not saying the white kids are the only victim or even the bigger victim, what Asian children go through especially at school is horrible (bullying, social exclusion, etc), I'm mainly referring to the tumblr post featured in this video, not the people who are actually trying to change their race-- if I understand correctly, the person who made the tumblr post wasn't trying to change their race, but if that's not the case then I apologize and take back what I said, yes that person would be doing something harmful and potentially racist
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@ville__ are you okay like? 😭
bestie please turn the mic so ur talking straight into it rn it sounds like you’re taking to me behind my right shoulder lol
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idk why it's a controversial take to say that you cannot self-identify into an oppressed group lol
Why not, a male who sucks at sports can identify as a female and suddenly become a top athlete and use their locker rooms and bathrooms......
im asian and i used to cry when i was little because i thought i wouldnt be beautiful or good enough because i wasnt white, this whole thing of trying to be asian always confusing. for white people being another race is an aesthetic, its a costume to wear until they get bored or it isnt trendy anymore. they dont have to experience the generational trauma of race based war/violence and the stereotypes that is stuck onto our countries
"If you didn't enjoy it then I don't know why you've stayed 'till the end, but thanks for doing it anyway dumbass." 🤣 26:14
Nah I think I’m gonna have to skip this one. As a Japanese American who is still struggling with their identity this “”trans race”” trend is essentially doom scrolling for me
Slay. This was a good video and i liked it a lot.
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I personally think that everyone, regardless of race/ethnicity, is born into societies/culture that is always “othering” a different societies/cultures. People think racism is just inherently white vs black, but racism is rampant in many different cultures and is indoctrinated into children at ages that can’t tell right from wrong. Racism is systemic. So to think only white people are racist is a very western view; and disregards other racist tendencies many other races/ethnic groups carry. Ex: lighter skin tones preferable in Asian cultures, Hutus vs Tutsis, indigenous groups va colonizers, etc. This is my opinion and I’d be happy to discuss anyone’s thoughts/ideas, just please be kind :)
before i watch this video im prayi g that my friends fake rcta server that blew up on tt makes it into this video 🙏🙏🙏
nice video everything you said is what i was thinking
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I would implore you to change the title to "The Zoomers That Want To Change Race" instead of just "Zoomers Want To Change Race". Feels like the title is criticising Zoomers as a whole and that's just fueling culture war bullshit.
Yeaaaahh, agreed. Although the title did get me to instantly click, so it worked lol
And let the complaining begin.......
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the vast majority of RCTA are trolls. a person who genuinely believes in RCTA would be hard to find as most of it is bait
Pretty sure I've met the same wizard
wizard did it
its just a qanon-eqsque mass psychosis type stuff lol.
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Not killing animals and destroying our environment is maybe "vegan propaganda" today but it'll be a class in all good schools eventually.
Unsubbed, I can’t believe you share a Myers-Briggs with the Jonkler
I’m a reverse-pescatarian just cause I love sea animals so much it would make me so sad to eat and l be policing my tide pools of ppl scavenging lol but then im fine eating other meat it makes no sense I know
I don’t care what you dress like. You’re hot whatever gender you are
What
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Wasn't it proven that braids and stuff aren't cultural appropriation it's hair
this is not new. the internet has just shed a new light on it
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I am transperson and now identify as your boyfriend
weird thing tho is I feel like all the argumnents againts RCTA sound a lot like peoples argument againts trans people like the "you can never change your BiOlogY, you're being delusional" and the "you're using women/races as costumes it,s disrespectful and spreads harmful stereotypes"
well one is backed by science and the other is RCTA which all of those critiques genuinely apply to, but in the context of trans people its just unfounded transphobia
Bruh
Let's see if I can think like a leftist...... Trans women ARE women, and you CAN change your gender, but you can't change your race!!!!
@@molasorrosalom4846 nah you're just lacking braincells so let me explain it for you transgender a has records of going back centuries ago it's not a new concept in the modern day has been seen by some as a trans figure. Hijras on the Indian subcontinent and kathoeys in Thailand have formed trans-feminine third gender social and spiritual communities since ancient times, with their presence documented for thousands of years in texts which also mention trans male figures. Gender is based society and Individuality research .Race is skin colour genetic and communal if you did a DNA test it couldn't tell you if you were a male or female , it could tell if you were you are from though IT WOULDN'T K!LL YOU RIGHT WINGS SO READ A BOOK
Can we not generalize this across the whole generation? I love your content but it's kinda annoying to constantly have generalizations drawn about a whole generation. We talked about this topic in my lifespan development class the other day and everyone agreed that you can't transition to a different race. The example we used was Rachel Dolezal who was the president of the NAACP and who is 45 years old. This isn't only Gen-Z
btw I'm a Psych major so this is a Psych class
So you can change your gender but not your race?
Or will that be something that someone can do five years from now?
But it's mostly taking place in younger gen Z. Not really sure why you're pressed considering she's just presenting a true fact.
no sorry we not gonna stop generalizing
@@ivy7417 okay well if it's younger Gen Z then the title should say that. (Which it does now and I appreciate it) I'm just tired of people drawing conclusions about me bc of how old I am. It's the same as saying all millennial are lazy, which isn't true.
Oli London influence omg
is the audio imbalanced or is it just my computer?
it feels weird for me (on mobile with airpods)
a lot of the sound is on the right side
it is i accidentally changed my mics setting when i put it on this mic stand 💔
@@graysonsprojects aaahh ok that's what i was afraid of!!! i wanted to comment in case you weren't aware of it but ig there's not much u can do 😭 i watched anyway :3
@NotVille_ excuse me
13:09 - what is an egyosol?
Aegyosal are like little rolls/creases under the eyes, theyre especially popular in korea so some people draw them on
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literally hate the wizard he does this all the time
whats bad with white people wearing african braids? wtf
wizard shaming? not cool grayson /j
wdym? race is biological
to me, saying all white people are inherently racist is an acknowledgement of the system we all grow up in. it’s impossible to NOT benefit from white privilege as a white person almost anywhere in the world. it takes serious effort to unlearn white supremacy and if we’re being honest, most of us don’t even try, and those that do will often consider themselves “not racist” after learning the tiniest bit about systemic racism (as an example). in my opinion there is no way to escape this inherent bias as a white person, hence, all white people are inherently racist
edit: to clarify, i think “all white people are inherently racist” is shorthand for “as a white person, you are not in a position to declare that you are NOT racist, because you will never fully grasp the impacts of white supremacy on everything you do and believe.”
But can't we say the same thing about people whose ancestors experienced racism. Like my grandpa from what he told me he experienced wasn't horror movie levels but he has experienced things as a soilder when he would go to bars but I feel like that victim mentality people have now limits us
(I'm not trying to have an argument just a genuine conversation)
I might get hate for this but I feel like white ppl are more oppressed online media I can't speak for person..I have experienced some racism in my life but being in a mainly Hispanic area it's not all that much I get treated differently. If anything I always see now that white people are just the target for some things they can't control. Not to say racist white people don't exist. But idk I feel like we live in a world where we can't just love and wild ideas exist cause we can't love ourselves enough.
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