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Meant to post this earlier too but I got busy:
Not sure how many people know his story but my limited understanding of it is he became a hit in China by posting videos of him singing popular Chinese songs online. So he moved over there and he got help to learn Mandarin and was on TV a lot. Eventually he decided to start the process of becoming a Chinese citizen and I guess he is now because he still lives there. You can read a bit more on the CCTV website here
I couldn't find much recent stuff (everything above happened in the early 2010s ) other than TikTok but it appears that he still lives in China and still singing. :xigma-male:
That's fucking awesome and love China being an awesome chads destroying the "China hates black people narrative".
I wouldn't doubt the claims I've heard of xenophobia among parts of the Chinese populace, particularly with stories of anti-black racism and discrimination in areas which attract African visitors and immigrants, like Guangzhou (One of which was a police brutality case). Not necessarily a systemic issue (or so I think) so much as individual cases of bigotry, culture shock and cultural conservatism, but still worth noting.
Of course, using those stories to claim "China" "hates" black people, especially from a Western source, is lmao
Oh yeah, there's always the possibility of culture shock causing those issues. It's more that Americans say it as a whataboutism to ignore how their country has created a ingrained institutional racism against not only blacks but any and all minorities that come over to the US.
