Just as the title says, I think that stans trying to gatekeep kpop from non asian musicians is pretty dumb. Hip hop and RnB (Re: Blues) were born from black people's desire to express their thoughts freely in a country that loved to oppress them, yet nobody has an issue now if non black people do these genres; so why do kpop stan immediately get enraged when a non asian tries to be a kpop idol, calling them racist/ colonizers etc.? There are plenty of nb rappers, yet we can all agree that most of the best rappers til now are black and, at least personally, when I think about hiphop, I think about black artists. I understand that kpop helps greatly with asian rappresentation in the western market, but having some non asian artist won't harm anyone, especially since (unlike hiphop and rnb) kpop was born for simple entertainment purposes and it borrowed most of its sound from the western music genres. Kpop will never become ''whitewashed'' whether non asian idols debut or not, because its roots will always be in S.Korea and it will always remain as a great medium for asian rappresentation.

Personally I think that if a non asian has gone through the same process as any other asian trainee (ex. Lana), then it has all the rights to debut, without deserving random (mostly koreaboos) twitter stans to attack them. Plus seeing some diversity in kpop wouldn't be that bad and ,maybe by bringing non asian into kpop, topics like c.a., blackface etc could be discussed/understood better, which would be win win situation.

P.s. is also very interesting the way nobody really cares if there are non asian MCs (ex. Sam Okyere), non asian actors ( Chris Lyon) or anything else in the entertainment industry except for idols. I kinda wonder why, but there is that little part of me that tells me that it's because stans (re: koreaboos) don't want other ''foreigners'' to get in contact with their oppars except for them.

P.p.s Asking ''Why can't they do music in any other way? Why kpop?'' is plain stupid, because you could literally ask the same things to japanese/thai/non korean idols the same thing: ''Why did you move to S.Korea, without knowing anything about the culture nor the language, when you could have become a singer/rapper/dancer in your country?''.

EDIT: Ok, since I see a lot of comments about ''kpop is not a genre'' etc, I just wanna point out that that ain't the point of the post, I am talking about (usually non asians) twt stans saying ''non asian shouldn't debut because kpop is for asian rappresentation'' etc. while not having any problem with non black people doing black genres that were actually born to serve as african american rappresentation.

(I apologize in advance for eventual typos/ grammatical errors)