Korean Job Discussion Forums

[Cheonmunka]

Korean culture is thousands of years old. It was mostly staid and unchanged and quiet. I think the real culture lies in its people, part of the jong and and han and part of the psyche. The family is so important that that takes a big precedence in anything cultural - we can see family documents that spread back more than one thousand years. I can find out my wife's great, great (to the power of 10's?) grandfather's personal details yet he passed away in 1049. Isn't that extraordinary? Not in Korea. Every family male head is responsible for those books.
It's unlike US where it's overt culture like Mickey Mouse, freebasing, Harleys, Feds and Rebs. That's a medley, a melting pot. Hard to distinguish the culture even within all the trademarks of culture.

[indytrucks]

[Ilsanman]

Maybe we're a melting pot because we allow immigrants into our country. Our cultures get mixed, but the main white culture still remains most dominant.

The family thing is a comment I object to quite fiercly. THough they have this emphasis on family here, the main source of stress for Koreans is their family. Whether it be parents trying to live vicariously through their kids, controlling them, mooching off of them, sticking their nose in other peoples business, etc etc, families here really screw each other over.

If you happen to be part of a Korean family that doesn't do that, good for you. Consider yourself lucky.

This certainly happens in the west too, but families are more apt to cut off that family member.

[The Great Toad]

[mrgiles]

o i don't know.

he who smurfs smurf often smurfs the smurfest. smurf?

[Yaya]

Considering the generally low intelligence Texans tend to have (the state always ranks in the lowest three in high school graduation rates in the U.S.), I am not surprised by the OP at all.

[polonius]

Cognorati,

Isn't it great that not everyone gains happiness from the same things. I mean, what motivates you, and feeds your happiness may not please me or others. Many people here have enjoyed their time, as a result there are many people who have been here for 5+ years, myself included. I personally would never want to live in Texas, and that doesn't mean I hate the place, or think it is a culturless cesspool. (Ok maybe I think that of Mr. Bush's ranch) But really, to argue what makes you happy, and tell others that they are fools for CHOOSING the lifestyle they lead, is ignorant. I am not calling you ignorant, but you simply don't know the other people and what motivates them, so to pass judgment on them is.

Also, how easy it is to insult another culture. Every culture is open to criticism, but that doesn't mean one is better than the other. They are simply different. People could, and have spent hours degrating the American culture, and what is your opinion of them? You either don't care, I mean why should you care what someone who has no bearing on your life says, or it infuriates you. Bottom line is, you saying that Korea has no culture is also an ignorant statement. I mean, you have had what, 6 months to form this opinion? Furthermore, like my pappy used to say, "Opinions are like @$$holes, everyone's got one."

Good for you for finding out that this country doesn't make you happy. I say that with all sincerety. People should find what makes them happy. For me, and many others here, Korea has been great to us.

[jinju]

Does Texas have culture? if so, what is it? I cant think of anything. Everything in Texas is big...including the magnitude of ugliness of their cities. What a godawful cesspool.

[mrgiles]

o polonius u seem to have got much wiser after all those murders in the fifth act.

or...were u always just pretending to be a fool???

great post!

[twg]

[nateium]

[Snowmeow]

sorry, double post. See below

[lucas_p]

Hmm, I can go to my local community college for two years and become a teacher certified to teach in the US. How do I know? Because I checked into it, so if I really wanted to come back to be a teacher, like YOU OP, I could do it quite easily. Loser indeed.

Um....argument over?

[Snowmeow]

[nateium]