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[charlieDD]

I know this has been discussed on one the forums here, but I think it bears bringing up again, with Hillary Clinton inching toward the White House.

http://www.occidentalism.org/?p=93

I'm really quite fed up with the anti-Americanism in Korea. Now that I'm back in the states, I do what I can personally to let everyone I meet know about it and do my part to return the favor, reporting unfavorably on everything Korean.

I heard last week that in Korea the television news reporting on the beef that got sent to Korea mistakenly (was supposed to be for domestic US market but end up in Korea; had not been approved for export, therefore) and instead of reporting it as it was - - a stupid blunder on the USDA and American export officials - - it was reported as a case of American corruption; that the exporter had likely paid off some USDA official to get the export license; and that the heroic, pure, loyal Korean civil servant had saved the day by uncovering the collusion.

Then, I hear about the story of the Korean couple who drowned in their car in a flash flood incident in Texas. The AP report makes it clear that the Korean called 911, was incoherent, then hung up and called his family members. The 911 operator tried everything to get in touch with him and locate him. The Korean media reports that the operator simply hung up on the Korean man after she couldn't understand him.

I'm really tired of this kind of cr*p from the Koreans.

The thing is . . . 99% of Americans don't know a thing about Korea and so it's like some knat flying at the back of their heads; it goes completely unnoticed here. I wish someone like " BECK " (FOX News?) would do a show on something like "What they're saying about us" in which he would show the kind of cr*p the Koreans, among others, say about us in their media. (The "among others" I can think of is the Arab / Muslim countries. I would group Korea right in there with them.)

On a tangent: Like I said, 99% of Americans know next to nothing about Korea. They seem to know more about North Korea! Mention you lived and worked in Korea and you'll get . . "North Korea?" That's how much they know. They don't even know that no foreigners go live and work in North Korea ! Koreans really have a grander view of their importance in the world than the reality.

[ChuckECheese]

I know exactly what you mean. It is just tragic that Korean media and government are promoting anti-Americanism and brain washing their citizens to hate everything about America.

As such, when I return to my home in Texas, I plan to let everyone know about it and encourage them to boycott everything made in Korea and buy Japanese.

[charlieDD]

[Guri Guy]

Anti-Americanism will come back and bite Korea in the @ss. Hopefully for Korea, they will realize this and stand up to it before it is too late. America has been the best friend Korea has ever had and to throw that all away in order to suck up to North Korea is foolish. The pathetic Korean government and crappy media are to blame and the average Korean is suffering for it.

[Sleepy in Seoul]

When Americans criticise other countries of 'historical amnesia', the words kettle, pot, calling and black come to mind very quickly.

[stevemcgarrett]

charlieDD wrote:

[thepeel]

I do the same. I tell Americans who ask that the vast majority of Koreans hate individual Americans with every fiber of their being. I tell them about the "fu%king USA song", the pro-9/11 dances, the brainwashed kids saying "osama bery good" and the "Americans not welcome signs". I tell them about the Hummer accident and the circus following that. About how American soldiers have been abducted and then charged for being abducted. I tell them how the Korean media portrays Americans specifically (and non-Koreans generally) with fully zero respect (unless that American has "Korean blood" in which case they use racist claim that "X" is good at "y" because of the purity of Korean blood ... HOW RACIST!!!).

I also personally refuse to buy Korean products. And it sucks, cause i really want to buy the Samsung i600. I guess a Palm Treo will have to do instead.

Someone described the FTA as "foreign aid". It is. I never thought of it in that way, but it is. The USA uses trade to keep friends friends. The Korean economy is deeply threatened by China.

I see lots of potential in their culture, but the hate/racism/sexism/dishonestly/lies are just too much.

If they don't wake up and refocus their attention away from being perpetual victims, she will return to her historical position as the Ugly Appendage between Asian economic powerhouses China and Japan.

[jajdude]

Yeah, interesting posts.

Explain it to me very slowly and carefully, 'cause I'm kind of dumb, but why is it so many Koreans dislike America and (apparently) everybody else?

[jvalmer]

Hate to break it to you Americans, but most of the world feels the same way Koreans do about America. Koreans are a bit more vocal, but go and do a survey of the general population, in any country, about their attitudes about the USA and most of the world will have pretty negative attitudes about America.

Bush is the biggest reason why, it could have gone the other way after 9/11, but invading Iraq was probably the biggest factor in anti-American attitudes throughout the world.

[charlieDD]

[charlieDD]

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[stevemcgarrett]

jvalmer wrote:

[Julius]

Philippines is similar in their basic assumption that every foreigner must be American.

it gets tiring here though because you just know all the anti-vibeyou get is because they have already assumed you are American. I feel like beginning every conversation or interraction with "I'm not American".

Don't these people know the world is actually made up of 200+ nations, not just 2??

[Sleepy in Seoul]