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[the eye]

Explain that to someone who thinks korean women don't put up with abuse?
I don't have that kind of patience.

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[blynch]

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Wow. What ere the chances? You two almost make half a brain.

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[kermo]

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Thanks, kermo. Well said.

[just another day]

^ yeah, its about 7% blacks online, 7% latinos online, and about 12% asians online (because of digital divide issues). so minorities are still underrepresented even knowing the online population breakdown.

anyways... no big deal. people get defensive when their "ethnicity" is being attacked.

thats all it is. a natural reaction which i completely agree with (but won't subject my children to)

[blynch]

[blynch]

[Atavistic]

This study was done in America, but still shows KOREAN attitudes.

http://66.218.69.11/search/cache?ei=UTF-8&p=spusal+abuse+korean&fr=sfp&u=www.elderabusecenter.org/pdf/research/
rschart.pdf&w=spusal+spousal+abuse+korean&d=ZMTo8f4-PPaq&icp=1&.intl=us

Elder Abuse:
�Korean American respondents were significantly
more likely than respondents in the other groups
to blame the victims for the occurrence of elder
abuse.� (299)

�Korean American elderly respondents held
significantly more negative attitudes toward
involvement of persons outside the family in elder
abuse incidents, as well as toward reporting of
such incidents to the authorities and the
consequences for perpetrators.� (299)


�Only 28% of Korean-Americans, compared to
62% of Caucasians, knew of an agency,
organization, or a professional to turn to for help if
they were abused or mistreated.� (

�[C]onsiderable ethnic group differences exist in
the perceptions of elder abuse, and the Korean
Americans on the average were less sensitive to or
more tolerant of potentially abusive situations than
the other two groups.� (389)

http://www.thestandard.com.hk/news_detail.asp?pp_cat=
17&art_id=35482&sid=11612422&con_type=1

Spousal Abuse:
Images of a top South Korean actress in hospital with a disfigured face, which she said was caused by a beating from her celebrity husband, has stirred a rare, public debate on domestic violence.

Spousal abuse was mostly a subject discussed in private or swept under the rug until images of Lee Min Young were splashed across newspapers and on television news programs this week.

Concern in South Korea about domestic violence had already been on the rise. The gender equality ministry said about 90,500 couples received counselling in 2004 because of abuse at home and that figure was headed toward about 130,000 last year.

There, evidence from your own damn country.

And there's more!

http://66.218.69.11/search/cache?ei=UTF-8&p=spousal+abuse+korean&u=www.hawaii.edu/hivandaids/
Conjugal_Violence_in_Korean_American_Families__A_Residue
_of_the_Cultural_Tradition.pdf&w=spousal+abuse+korean&d=
IVVgNP4-PWKE&icp=1&.intl=us

Conjugal Violence in Korean American Families: A
Residue of the Cultural TraditionJae Yop Kim (Department of Social Welfare, College of Social Sciences, Yonsei University, Seoul 120,
South Korea.) and Kyu-taik Sung (School of Social Work, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089-0411.)

The study explored the incidence of spouse abuse in Korean American families and interrelations between conjugal violence, marital power struc-ture, stress, and socioeconomic and cultural factors. Rate of conjugal violence in these families is higher than those for other Asian American families.

Violence between husbands and wives has not always been viewed asa serious problem. Historically, physical punishment by husbands against
their wives has been accepted as a way of maintaining domestic authority
in different cultures.


http://66.218.69.11/search/cache?ei=UTF-
8&p=spousal+abuse+korea&u=www.state.gov/g
/drl/rls/hrrpt/2001/eap/
8336.htm&w=spousal+abuse+korea&d=bzFb8f4-PRs_&icp=1&.intl=us


Women

Violence against women remained a problem, and some women's rights groups maintain that such violence, including spousal abuse, has worsened with the 1997 to 1998 decline of the economy. The Ministry of Gender Equality, established during the year to oversee issues related to women's rights and welfare, indicated that the number of cases of spousal abuse appears to be increasing because more women are coming forward to report abuse. The Prevention of Domestic Violence and Victim Protection Act defines domestic violence as a serious crime. Authorities can order offenders to stay away from victims for up to 6 months and to be put on probation or to see court-designated counselors. The law also requires police to respond immediately to reports of domestic violence. Women's groups praised the law as a significant step in combating domestic violence.

Rape remained a serious problem. [...]

The Family Law permits women to head a household, recognizes a wife's right to a portion of the couple's property, and allows a woman to maintain greater contact with her children after a divorce. Although the law helps abused women who choose to divorce, including victims of domestic violence, the stigma of divorce remains strong, and there is little government or private assistance for divorced women. These factors, plus the fact that divorced women have limited employment opportunities and have difficulty remarrying, lead some women to stay in abusive situations. The Government established some shelters for battered women and increased the number of child care facilities, giving women in abusive situations more options, but women's rights groups say that they fall far short of effectively dealing with the problem.

The country's conservative traditions have left women subordinate to men socially and economically.

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[the eye]

Hey Blychie,
Show me where I said korean women are more likely to put up with abuse than other nationalities.
You linguistically challenged, bible throwing twit.