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[PimpofKorea]

A post by normalcyispasse made me think about something. I'm pretty much a loner. I never could bring myself to hangout with the waygook crowds or even Koreans. I don't give a crap about Korean culture and don't care much more for whitey culture. I don't even work with other Koreans or white people...and I can't work with co-workers. Every job I have ever had for any length of time has been a job where I had no coworkers or not part of a team.....mostly just independent jobs. I think I remember always getting the lowest marks on "doesn't play well with others" on my elementary report cards. Anywho...anybody else out there have the same thing going on in Korea..or elsewhere?

[Masta_Don]

왕따

[DRAMA OVERKILL]

Personally, I associate "loner" with "antisocial", and "rebel" with "resisting the norm"...

If that's the case, where would you fit it?

Often, I prefer to sit in at home and play my guitar while everyone else in Korea is out getting pissed. So, I guess that would make me a bit of both - an antisocial who resists the norm.

[adventureman]

You are obviously craving some form of attention, otherwise wouldn't be logging on here everyday trying to impress people with your "witty" banter.

[Areut]

[yesnoyesyesno]

[captain kirk]

[twg]

[The_Conservative]

[DRAMA OVERKILL]

[Paddycakes]

Brilliant is of course subjective.

There are a lot of benefits to conforming and drinking from the Kool-aid.

It's important to classify your Loner type.

There are loners who are loners because they have no choice.

And then there are loners who are loners because they reject the majority of people out there.

[Scotticus]

[normalcyispasse]

It's not so much people in theory who bother me, but people in practice. I don't MEAN to be a loner, but I just prefer things to be a bit quieter.

I live in a smaller town; I grew up in a smallish suburb of a plains state, and I've never really been comfortable living in cities. I don't drink (personal, not religious choices) so the bar scene is generally unappealing. I don't like drunkenness (former bouncer), and in general it's just easier for me to live simply.

I'm married and I spend a lot of time with my wife. It's a nice life. Before I moved to Korea and met her, I moved around America quite a bit -- always by myself, and it was just not a big thing. Still isn't. 왕따? Maybe, but it really feels like "loner" is too forceful a term. I prefer something like "casual."

I didn't realize how foreign white people had become to me until I visited America last winter. I was in my home country, but everyone around me seemed stranger to me than the Koreans do here. I think perhaps with the Koreans I know what to expect: I don't like it, but I know I am going to be treated like a waygook. In America, there's just that indifference to everyone. I don't feel close to white or American culture anymore; I find many trends slightly more distasteful, the sense of suburban entitlement more prevalent, and the politics too inflammatory (and the rhetoric too reactionary -- even for a self-described liberal).

Sometimes I get the sense that I should go out and meet some more of the foreigners in my city, but then inevitably there ends up being a mass e-mail about the latest drunk-fest on the beach or who's getting paid the most for their private lessons and I end up just living my own, rather comfortable, life.

[Paddycakes]