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seoulunitarian
Joined: 06 Jul 2004
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 Posted: Tue Jan 09, 2007 7:15 pm Post subject: re: |
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| eamo wrote: |
Once, just once, I felt a twinge of cultural guilt when in line at a McDonalds. Like the OP says, all those Koreans looking at the whitey and seeing their assumptions realised.
"See! They do all eat hamburgers!!!"
Then I thought, "f_uck 'em!".... and enjoyed my Big Mac set. Large-uh.. |
I felt like that once, then I realized they were in the same line.
Peace |
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Qinella
Joined: 25 Feb 2005
Location: the crib
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| Posted: Tue Jan 09, 2007 8:16 pm Post subject: |
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| Hater Depot wrote: |
| I think part of it is that, you know, Koreans eat a pretty monotonous diet. It's pretty much exactly the same menu, day in and day out. From their perspective it's not unreasonable to think other cultures do the same. |
Right! When my student asked me about Americans eating hamburgers every day, I thought to ask an equally ridiculous question such as if Koreans eat rice every day. Then I realized.. oh hold on.. they do eat the same thing every day. haha. |
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ChimpumCallao
Joined: 17 May 2005
Location: your mom
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| Posted: Tue Jan 09, 2007 9:39 pm Post subject: Re: Dave Chapelle and Waygookin Self-consciousness |
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Dave Chapelle has a stand-up CD entitled Killin' Them Softly. One of the tracks features Dave relating an incident that happened to him in Mississippi. Here it is, roughly paraphrased.
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So I was walking into a restaurant in Mississippi and I walked up to the counter to order. "Yeah, I'd like ... " and before I could even finish the sentence, the guy yells, "The chicken!" I was like, what the f*ck? This man was absolutely right! How did he know I was gonna order some chicken? So I asked him, "How'd you know I was gonna get some chicken?" He says to me, "Come on, buddy. Come ooooon, buddy. Everybody in here knew soon as you walked through the goddamn door that you was gonna order you some chicken. It's no secret down here that blacks and chickens are quite fond of one another."
And that just made me so upset. I wasn't ready to hear that. Here I'd always thought that I liked chicken because it's delicious, but it turns out I'm genetically predisposed to liking chicken! So now every time I go out now I'm afraid to order it. I don't want some people to see me and be like, "Lllooook at him - he loves it! It's just like the encyclopedia says!"
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This is exactly the feeling I have going into a fast food restaurant in Korea. You know how the English textbooks give the impression that English speakers eat nothing but hamburgers, hot dogs and pizza? I can just imagine some Koreans looking at me and thinking, "How is he not fat if all he eats is fast food?" or something. It's actually stopped me from going into KFC a couple times. |
Oh my god, yes. Me and my BF ALWAYS HATED going into McDonald's. I knew we were totally justifying their stereotypes that all whiteys eat burgers and fries. After a hangover though, it was just too much too resist.
By the way, where I live now...McD's delivers for a buck extra charge. |
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Young FRANKenstein
Joined: 02 Oct 2006
Location: Castle Frankenstein (that's FRONKensteen)
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| Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2007 12:44 am Post subject: Re: Dave Chapelle and Waygookin Self-consciousness |
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| Qinella wrote: |
| You know how the English textbooks give the impression that English speakers eat nothing but hamburgers, hot dogs and pizza? I can just imagine some Koreans looking at me and thinking, "How is he not fat if all he eats is fast food?" or something. |
Yeah, that throught runs through my head when I (rarely) go into a fast food place.
"Oh great, I'm perpetuating the we-only-eat-fastfood stereotype they have"
Then I look around at the 100-150 KOREANS in the joint and then order my meal. |
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thebum
Joined: 09 Jan 2005
Location: North Korea
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| Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2007 1:09 am Post subject: |
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| jajdude wrote: |
| Is there any foreigner in Korea, or most of Asia for that matter, who isn't self-conscious at least sometimes? |
Here! |
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MissSeoul
Joined: 25 Oct 2006
Location: Somewhere in America
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| Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2007 1:12 am Post subject: Re: Dave Chapelle and Waygookin Self-consciousness |
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| Qinella wrote: |
| in Mississippi |
Lets me tell you about Mississippi.
A couple years ago, my friend and I went camping ( We were going Smoky Mountain , TN ), we had to spend one night at camp ground in some town, Mississippi ( I think the town name was Brandon ).
It was State camp ground, soon we realized 3-4 little kids follow us like puppies.
My friend and I were wondering why this kids follow us, soon we figured out why. They never saw ORIENTAL people before. They were following us with a great curiosity, we decided to look the town, there was nothing there and the supermarket name was something like pigglyweggly, we found fried pig skin at that supermarket. |
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Qinella
Joined: 25 Feb 2005
Location: the crib
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| Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2007 7:54 am Post subject: |
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| Too bad the kids weren't Chinese-speaking Germans, you would've been in hog heaven. |
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