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Vlogging White Privilege Abroad: Eat Your Kimchi's Eating and Spitting Out of the Korean Other on YouTube.

Authors :
Oh, David C.
Oh, Chuyun
Source :
Communication, Culture & Critique; Dec2017, Vol. 10 Issue 4, p696-711, 16p
Publication Year :
2017

Abstract

Over several years, the YouTube channel Eat Your Kimchi, a White expatriate video log about South Korea, generated a sizeable audience. In the videos, Martina and Simon Stawski draw upon discourses that empower their identities as a privileged group of cultural outsiders-valued and othered for their White difference. To benefit from their global advantage, they essentialize differences between the West/themselves and Korea/ns in order to emphasize White and Western superiority. As a consequence, they reject hybridity by both mocking Korea/ns as an exotic other and by consuming it as an exotic delight. Their strategies reflect colonial-era discourses seen in the travel logs of White 'adventurers' that are transformed to the current social, global, and technological conjuncture. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
17539129
Volume :
10
Issue :
4
Database :
Complementary Index
Journal :
Communication, Culture & Critique
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
126244587
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1111/cccr.12180