BLACKPINK receives backlash from Chinese fanbase for calling them ‘Macanese’ instead of ‘Chinese’

Aiah Bathan
Mon, 10 Jul 2023 03:00:09 +0000
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South Korea’s popular girl group Blackpink received backlash from its Chinese fanbase after they were identified as ‘Macanese’. This issue has been a trending topic on Chinese social media Weibo, and the group was labelled insensitive.? It is said that describing people from Macau as Macanese is insensitive because it refers to those people of …