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Ad for South Korean city uses Calgary skyline
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Junior



Joined: 18 Nov 2005
Location: the eye

PostPosted: Tue Jul 24, 2007 1:52 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

yawarakaijin wrote:
While Calgary may be full of HICKS, Asia is where the RACISTS are.


Quite contrary to "superiority", racism is usually the consequence of an inferiority complex. Its a fear overcompensating with a defensive myth.
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VanIslander



Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!

PostPosted: Tue Jul 24, 2007 2:01 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

BJWD wrote:
Coming from a KOREAN?

Nope. Gotta call bs on that.

what? the op is Korean? is this thread motivated by Korean pride? is he even a teacher? Confused

gawd i miss the days when some of us waygooks were the apologists on Dave's for korea and koreans
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paquebot



Joined: 20 Jun 2007
Location: Northern Gyeonggi-do

PostPosted: Tue Jul 24, 2007 7:44 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

just another day wrote:
the cultural lineage of native americans and first people's died. that is the root of the racism in calgary.


I've attended the Tsu'u Tina Nations Pow Wow in (technically, just outside) Calgary. I went with my friend who is of First Nation heritage and who takes drum lessons from a tribal elder. If you'd like I can introduce the two of you and you can say this to her face. I'm sure she'd love to hear a foreigner like yourself tell her that her entire cultural heritage is dead.

It's great to see how a non-native like yourself is such an expert on all things indigenous. Was it hard growing up on the reservation?
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paquebot



Joined: 20 Jun 2007
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 24, 2007 7:56 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

VanIslander wrote:
BJWD wrote:
Coming from a KOREAN?

Nope. Gotta call bs on that.

what? the op is Korean? is this thread motivated by Korean pride? is he even a teacher? Confused

gawd i miss the days when some of us waygooks were the apologists on Dave's for korea and koreans


I believe the reference was to just another day and not the OP. just another day has been trolling the forums recently ...
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anae



Joined: 13 May 2003
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 24, 2007 2:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

While Calgary is hardly mutlicultural utopia, we personally have never experienced any racism in the past six years.

Just another day might be interested to note that Asian male white female couples are pretty common here. Last outing to the mall I counted 10 couples.
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Ya-ta Boy



Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994

PostPosted: Wed Jul 25, 2007 1:50 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I don't see the problem with using Calgary's skyline in a Korean ad. Korea has cities. Calgary is a city. In a generic kind of way, it makes sense to transpose Calgary to Korea. Kind of like the use of that clip of the Vietnamese islands in the Sparkling Korea ad on TV. Same-same.
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Smee



Joined: 24 Dec 2004
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PostPosted: Thu Jul 26, 2007 11:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I doubt it if was too intentional. Probably did a google search and picked the first city that wasn't too unique or recognizable.
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