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Joppy U
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Juregen
Joined: 30 May 2006
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We know
please add to the other posts instead of creating a new one. |
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Joppy U
Joined: 25 Sep 2006
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| Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2007 12:45 pm Post subject: |
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| Juregen wrote: |
We know
please add to the other posts instead of creating a new one. |
Well, I didn't see anything.
Maybe a post within another thread.
Maybe worthy of a thread of its own (I think).
Sorry if creating a new thread has somehow ruined your day.
Wasn't my intent. |
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VanIslander
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!
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actually, we don't
many of us haven't been on line for a day or so
this thread's headline informed me of the development
i never would have read the slayings thread... now that it is relevant and useful for class discussion with my students...
the development is deserving of its own thread |
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Svetlana
Joined: 22 Jan 2007
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| Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2007 1:05 pm Post subject: |
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| He had lived in america since he was 8 years old. 15 years in america, so he was american, not Korean. |
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VanIslander
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!
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| Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2007 1:26 pm Post subject: |
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| Svetlana wrote: |
| He had lived in america since he was 8 years old. 15 years in america, so he was american, not Korean. |
he was an alien resident, never got american citizenship, kept korean one
he was a loner who studied english in university
maybe that means he was fully integrated but just shy, a fully fluent member of American society studying literature and poetry
or maybe it means he didn't integrate well in to american society,... would surely have been laughed at in school not being able to speak english well when he was in elementary school... did he react by withdrawing THEN? speaking only korean at home likely, maybe playing violent computer games in his free time rather than have american friends... carrying resentment over the teasing
i suspect it may be a case of the failed immigrant story... being Korean is relevant but not essential to that storyline if indeed so
i have seen immigrants back in canada respond in all sorts of way, and when teenage immigrants withdraw, the results are negative, for the child and for society... not usually to such an extreme
(remember that student from India that went on a shooting spree last year in canada?)
it's not immigrant=bad .... it's about how some immigrants fail to integrate... and the fault is as much the society that makes fun of them, that pressures integration...
(we'll find out more details over time... i don't want to waste my free time this week on it... i'll check back and read some stories about it in a week or two, when more FACTS are known...) |
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poet13
Joined: 22 Jan 2006
Location: Just over there....throwing lemons.
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W.T.Carl
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2007 2:28 pm Post subject: |
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| No, the gunman was a lunatic. |
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poet13
Joined: 22 Jan 2006
Location: Just over there....throwing lemons.
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| Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2007 2:52 pm Post subject: |
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| True too. |
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Pak Yu Man
Joined: 02 Jun 2005
Location: The Ida galaxy
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| Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2007 4:23 am Post subject: |
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| dead horse |
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