Official Email Template and Information for Cultural Appropriation in LOONA's 12:00 teasers - a thread

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Hello, this is ORBITS.

Recently, weโ€™ve seen the styling of Girl of The Month Choerryโ€™s hair in the 12:00/Midnight teaser image. The styling of her hair uses the backgrounds and cultures of Indigenous People of America.
The feathers in Choerryโ€™s hair signify a sacred element of their culture. The braids paired with the feathers and cloth in Choerryโ€™s hair are sacred to their culture and are only tied when a bird - that are believed to be
the reincarnations of the dead - gives the person a feather, it is a moment to honor their dead ancestors. When feathers are worn as headdresses, it is also a symbol of status.
Regular braids, such as the ones in Heejinโ€™s teaser are not offensive. There are many tribes associated with this such as the Comechingon and Nahua (Latin America) and more.
Another concern that we have is that we hope the concept of this comeback isnโ€™t โ€œIndians & Cowboysโ€, because that is a stereotypical and violent interpretation of their culture and occupation that shouldnโ€™t be romanticized.
Many Orbits are a part of these cultures and deeply love LOONA. However, they want to educate the stylists and girls on why they cannot use this style. Using the culture of Indigenous peoples of America is deeply offensive and disrespectful.
This is why we are emailing you, so that this incident does not affect LOONAโ€™s future activities and comeback. We are aware of the differences of interpretation in Asian culture of Western culture but it is
seen as offensive to people from Western cultures and many other cultures in the world. Therefore, it should never be repeated, so as to keep a respectful attitude to other cultures.
We kindly ask you to take down the teaser and for BlockBerry Creativeโ€™s staff and idols to educate themselves about cultural and religious sentiments of props and
stylings so as to not hurt any fans of various cultural backgrounds in the future. This also deserves an apology, as it has deeply hurt fans who support LOONA.
ORBITs love LOONA and appreciate BBCโ€™s effort. Because of this, we don't want to see the girls doing anything harmful, and would appreciate LOONA and BlockBerry Creative to educate themselves by addressing this publicly, especially
as they are still on the road to becoming a popular girl group worldwide and to consider editing or reshooting the teaser images with similar styling to Choerryโ€™s teaser. As their influence expands, they should take care to be knowledgeable on other cultures.
Thank you.

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Subject: ์ด๋‹ฌ์˜ ์†Œ๋…€ ์ตœ๋ฆฌ ํ‹ฐ์ € ์‚ฌ์ง„ / ๋ฌธํ™”์  ์ฐฉ์ทจ - Choerry Teaser Image Cultural Appropriation

์•ˆ๋…•ํ•˜์„ธ์š”, ์˜ค๋น›์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
์ตœ๊ทผ์— ์˜ฌ๋ฆฐ ์ด๋‹ฌ์˜ ์†Œ๋…€ ์ตœ๋ฆฌ ์‚ฌ์ง„์— ์žˆ๋Š” ํ—ค์–ด์Šคํƒ€์ผ๋ง์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ธ€์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ์‚ฌ์ง„์— ์žˆ๋Š” ํ—ค์–ด์Šคํƒ€์ผ์€ ์•„๋ฉ”๋ฆฌ์นด (๋ถ๋‚จ๋ฏธ) ์›์ฃผ๋ฏผ๋“ค์˜ ๋ฐฐ๊ฒฝ๊ณผ ๋ฌธํ™”๋ฅผ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค: ํŠนํžˆ, ๋จธ๋ฆฌ์— ์žˆ๋Š” ๊นƒํ„ธ์€ ์ด ๋ฌธํ™”์˜ ์‹ ์„ฑํ•œ ์š”์†Œ๋ฅผ ๋ณด์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
๋•‹์€ ๋จธ๋ฆฌ์— ๊นƒํ„ธ๊ณผ ์ฒœ์„ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ๋ฌธ์ œ๋ผ๊ณ  ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ์‚ฌ์šฉ๋œ ๊นƒํ„ธ์€ ์•„๋ฉ”๋ฆฌ์นด ์›์ฃผ๋ฏผ์—๊ฒŒ ์‹ ์„ฑํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์ธ์‹๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฌธํ™”์ ์œผ๋กœ๋Š”, ์ฃฝ์€ ์ž์˜ ํ™˜์ƒ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๋ฏฟ์–ด์ง€๋Š” ์ƒˆ๊ฐ€ ๊ทธ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์—๊ฒŒ ๊นƒํ„ธ์„ ์ค„ ๋•Œ๋งŒ ๋ฌถ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
๋Œ์•„๊ฐ€์‹  ์กฐ์ƒ์„ ๊ธฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์ˆœ๊ฐ„์ด๋ผ ์ผ€์ดํŒ ์Šคํƒ€์ผ๋ง์— ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์— ๋งค์šฐ ๋ถˆ์พŒํ•˜๋‹ต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊นƒํ„ธ์ด ๋จธ๋ฆฌ์žฅ์‹์œผ๋กœ ์“ฐ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ๋„ ์ง€์œ„์˜ ์ƒ์ง•์ด๊ธฐ๋„ ํ•ด์„œ ์•„๋ฉ”๋ฆฌ์นด ์›์ฃผ๋ฏผ๋“ค์˜ ๋ฌธํ™”๋ฅผ ์ด๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ์ด์šฉํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์€ ๋งค์šฐ ๋ถˆ์พŒํ•˜๊ณ  ๋ฌด๋ก€ํ•œ ํ–‰๋™์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๊ฒƒ๊ณผ ๊ด€๋ จ๋œ ๋งŽ์€ ์›์ฃผ๋ฏผ ๋ถ€์กฑ๋“ค์ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์˜ˆ๋ฅผ ๋“ค์–ด์„œ
Comechingon๊ณผ Nahua ๋ถ€์กฑ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๊ทธ ์ด์ƒ๋„ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
(๋ฌผ๋ก , ํฌ์ง„ ํ‹ฐ์ € ์‚ฌ์ง„์— ๋‚˜์™”๋˜ ์ผ๋ฐ˜์ ์ธ ๋•‹์€ ๋จธ๋ฆฌ ์Šคํƒ€์ผ๋ง์€ ๋ฌธ์ œ์—†์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค)
์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ์šฐ๋ คํ•˜๋Š” ๋˜ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ๋ฌธ์ œ๋Š” ์ด๋ฒˆ ์ปด๋ฐฑ์˜ ์ปจ์…‰์ด "์ธ๋””์–ธ๊ณผ ์นด์šฐ๋ณด์ด"๊ฐ€ ์•„๋‹ˆ๊ธธ ๋ฐ”๋ผ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์€ ๋‚ญ๋งŒํ™”๋˜์–ด์„œ๋Š” ์•ˆ ๋˜๋Š” ์•„๋ฉ”๋ฆฌ์นด ์›์ฃผ๋ฏผ์˜ ๋ฌธํ™”์™€ ์ง์—…์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ •ํ˜•์ ์ด๊ณ  ํญ๋ ฅ์ ์ธ ํ•ด์„์ด๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
๋งŽ์€ ์˜ค๋น›๋“ค์€ ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๋ฌธํ™”์˜ ์ผ๋ถ€๋ถ„์ด๊ณ  ์ด๋‹ฌ์˜ ์†Œ๋…€๋ฅผ ๊นŠ์ด ์‚ฌ๋ž‘ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ, ์Šคํƒ€์ผ๋ฆฌ์ŠคํŠธ์™€ ๋ฉค๋ฒ„๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ๋„ ์™œ ์ด๋Ÿฐ ์Šคํƒ€์ผ์„ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์—†๋Š”์ง€ ๊ต์œกํ•˜๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์›ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์›์ฃผ๋ฏผ๋“ค์˜ ๋ฌธํ™”๋ฅผ ์ด์šฉํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์€ ๋งค์šฐ ๋ถˆ์พŒํ•˜๊ณ  ๋ฌด๋ก€ํ•œ ํ–‰๋™์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ ์ด ์‚ฌ๊ฑด์ด ์ด๋‹ฌ์˜ ์†Œ๋…€์˜ ํ–ฅํ›„ ํ™œ๋™๊ณผ ์ปด๋ฐฑ์— ์ข‹์ง€ ์•Š์€ ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ๋ฏธ์น˜์ง€ ์•Š๋„๋ก ์ด ๊ธ€์„ ๋“œ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋™์–‘ ๋ฌธํ™”์—์„œ ์„œ์–‘ ๋ฌธํ™”๋กœ์˜ ํ•ด์„ ์ฐจ์ด, ๋˜๋Š” ์„œ๋กœ์—๊ฒŒ ์ผ๋ฐ˜์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ธ์‹๋˜์ง€ ์•Š์€ ํฌ์ธํŠธ๋„ ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ๋„ ์ดํ•ดํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์ด๊ฒƒ์€ ์„œ์–‘๊ณผ ์„ธ๊ณ„์˜ ๋งŽ์€ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ๋ฌธํ™”๊ถŒ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ๋ชจ์š•์ ์ธ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์—ฌ๊ฒจ์งˆ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋ฏ€๋กœ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ๋ฌธํ™”์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์กด๊ฒฝ์‹ฌ์„ ์œ ์ง€ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด์„œ ์ด๊ฒƒ์€ ์ ˆ๋Œ€ ๋ฐ˜๋ณต๋˜์–ด์„œ๋Š” ์•ˆ ๋œ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
์–ด๋ ค์šด ๋ถ€ํƒ์ผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ฒ ์ง€๋งŒ ์ด ํ‹ฐ์ € ์‚ฌ์ง„ ๋‚ด๋ฆฌ๊ธฐ ๋ถ€ํƒ๋“œ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค (๋ฌธ์ œ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ๋Š” ๋ถ€๋ถ„์„ ์ˆ˜์ • ํ•˜๊ณ  ์˜ฌ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ๋„ ์ข‹๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค). ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์•ž์œผ๋กœ๋„ ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ๋ฌธํ™”์  ๋ฐฐ๊ฒฝ์„ ๊ฐ€์ง„ ํŒฌ๋ถ„๋“ค๊ป˜ ํ”ผํ•ด๋ฅผ ์ฃผ์ง€ ์•Š๋„๋ก ์Šคํƒœํ”„์™€ ์•„์ด๋Œ๋„ ์†Œํ’ˆ๊ณผ ์Šคํƒ€์ผ๋ง์˜ ๋ฌธํ™”์ , ์ข…๊ต์  ์ •์„œ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์Šค์Šค๋กœ ์•Œ์•„์ฃผ์‹œ๊ธธ ๋ฐ”๋ž๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
์ด๋‹ฌ์˜ ์†Œ๋…€๋ฅผ ์‘์›ํ•˜๋Š” ํŒฌ๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ๊นŠ์€ ์ƒ์ฒ˜๋ฅผ ์ค€ ๋งŒํผ ์‚ฌ๊ณผ๋„ ์š”์ฒญํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์˜ค๋น›๋“ค์€ ์ด๋‹ฌ์˜ ์†Œ๋…€๋ฅผ ์‚ฌ๋ž‘ํ•ด์„œ ๋“œ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๊ธ€์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์— ๋ฉค๋ฒ„๋“ค์ด (๋ชจ๋ฅด๋ฉด์„œ๋ผ๋„) ๋ชจ์š•์ ์ธ ํ–‰๋™์„ ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋ณด๊ณ  ์‹ถ์ง€ ์•Š์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
๊ณต์‹์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ด ๋ฌธ์ œ๋ฅผ ๋‹ค๋ฃจ๊ณ  ๊ต์œกํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹œ๋ฉด ์ •๋ง ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•˜๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋‹ฌ์˜ ์†Œ๋…€๋Š” ์„ธ๊ณ„์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ธ๊ธฐ ๊ทธ๋ฃน์ด ๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์—, ์˜ํ–ฅ๋ ฅ์ด ํ™•์žฅ๋จ์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ์„œ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ๋ฌธํ™”์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์‹๊ฒฌ์„ ๊ฐ€์ง€๋„๋ก ์ฃผ์˜ํ•ด์•ผ ํ•œ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

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