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Hyeon Een
Joined: 24 Jun 2005
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| Qinella wrote: |
| I call ajummas at restaurants 'agashi'. Puts a glint in their eye, and I know that glint says, "Hey.. maybe whitey isn't so bad." |
Haha that is a 'funny'/cool thing to do. I was in one of my regular lunch restaurants a coupla years ago in which the servers were CLEARLY adjummas. Me and my co-worker were waiting for our food when this 'young' halmoni said "Agassi!don-gass-uh, doo-gae-joosae-yo".
I obviously questioned my coworker chick about it [learning all the age/title rules is complicated!], and she said the halmonis were either kind or stupid haha. I'm going with kind. |
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nomad-ish
Joined: 08 Oct 2007
Location: On the bottom of the food chain
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| Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2007 5:30 pm Post subject: Re: How do you contribute to the good name of foreigners? |
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| tomato wrote: |
| Jizzo T. Clown wrote: |
| I eat in the cafeteria, go out with Korean coworkers, play sports with other Korean teachers, and do my best to practice Korean every day. |
I would, too, if I could find Koreans who don't insist on speaking English to me.
How do you do it? |
i used to go to the cafe every day, but i've stopped since only 1 woman tries to speak english to me. and before u say it, i would try to speak korean to them if anyone bothered to sit near me. usually they will sit at the other end of the table from me and then proceed to loudly talk about me in korean.
i am never rude to koreans, but neither am i friendly anymore. when i first came here, i smiled at them and would say hello if they did. mostly all it got me was men asking me if i were russian and a crazy guy following me around homever and the bus terminal on numerous occasions. or people trying to push their kids onto me on the train.
i may not contribute to the good name of foreigners, but nor do i contribute to the bad. |
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nomad-ish
Joined: 08 Oct 2007
Location: On the bottom of the food chain
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| Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2007 5:39 pm Post subject: |
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| jaganath69 wrote: |
| 99.9% of idiots on the street here who think my mere presence is the cue for an impromptu comedy routine. |
thank you!! i couldn't have said that better myself, i get that all the time here, and not just from kids, but adults as well |
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Bryan
Joined: 29 Oct 2007
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| Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2007 6:07 pm Post subject: |
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| What are you doing to help our reputations, if anything? |
I support the US military. The same military that made a free country so that South Koreans are not starving to death and eating pine needles right now, like the communists in the North. I'm sure they appreciate having electricity, food, and not being subject to a ruthless dictator's whims. |
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Fishead soup
Joined: 24 Jun 2007
Location: Korea
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| Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2007 6:24 pm Post subject: Re: How do you contribute to the good name of foreigners? |
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| Jizzo T. Clown wrote: |
I thought it would be nice to have a thread without the bickering (if that's possible). I eat in the cafeteria, go out with Korean coworkers, play sports with other Korean teachers, and do my best to practice Korean every day.
I'm no angel, but I feel like I am helping to contribute to the good name of foreigners. What are you doing to help our reputations, if anything? |
I do understand eating in the caferteria thing. I bring my own sandwiches
no one complains. There's nothing in the contract about limiting my diet to Kimchi Rice and soup. |
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Kimchi Cowboy
Joined: 17 Sep 2006
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| Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2007 7:14 pm Post subject: |
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Just yesterday, I helped a woman who was having bicycle trouble two doors down from my villa. I could've just walked on past (since I really needed to use the bathroom at the time), but it only took about 30 seconds to get the part straightened out and put the chain back on. She even spoke passable English, and was pretty grateful that she didn't have to get her hands all greasy.
Score one for the Whitey. |
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The_Eyeball_Kid
Joined: 20 Jun 2007
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| Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2007 7:15 pm Post subject: |
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| jaganath69 wrote: |
| While I can see the point of the OP, the bit that sticks in my craw is the fact that we are being judged, or seeking to be judged as a category. "Foreigners are nice" is as disingenuous as saying "all blacks are lazy", "all Italians pinch girls on the bum" or "all Yorkshiremen are miserable, coal-mining gits". Just because someone is a foreigner here doesn't mean I want to be friends with them, nor do I judge them on that basis. Ergo Koreans; I count many friends among them, and while their culture influences certain things they may do, there is a great deal of individual difference. As such, people can think what they like about us as a whole, but I prefer to judge and be judged on the basis of the individual. |
This one is particularly offensive and inaccurate - there hasn't been a coal mine in Yorkshire for years. |
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tomato
Joined: 31 Jan 2003
Location: I get so little foreign language experience, I must be in Koreatown, Los Angeles.
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| Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2007 7:30 pm Post subject: Re: How do you contribute to the good name of foreigners? |
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| nomad-ish wrote: |
| I used to go to the cafe every day, but i've stopped since only 1 woman tries to speak english to me. and before u say it, i would try to speak korean to them if anyone bothered to sit near me. usually they will sit at the other end of the table from me and then proceed to loudly talk about me in korean. |
When I was working in an after-school English class, the regular English teacher tried to parlee-voo with me in English.
I answered her in Korean, but she wouldn't take the hint.
I ignored her, but she wouldn't take the hint.
I finally had to give her a copy of my short story about a Korean teacher who goes to the United States and gets spoken to in Korean everywhere he goes. |
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Scotticus
Joined: 18 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2007 7:45 pm Post subject: |
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| Bryan wrote: |
I support the US military. The same military that made a free country so that South Koreans are not starving to death and eating pine needles right now, like the communists in the North. I'm sure they appreciate having electricity, food, and not being subject to a ruthless dictator's whims. |
You know that, up until 20 year ago, SK WAS ruled by a ruthless dictator, correct? And you do know that the US military did not step in the way of said dictatorships because they were friendly to the US, right?
I agree that the US military certainly gets the lionshare of the credit for keeping the Norks out, but to paint them as benevolent liberators isn't exactly... accurate. |
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renzobenzo1
Joined: 08 Sep 2007
Location: Suji, Yongin
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| Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2007 9:50 pm Post subject: |
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just try and be generally friendly
repeat the same shit 4 or 5 times in English until they understand
keep patient at times when back home I would ignite |
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RJjr
Joined: 17 Aug 2006
Location: Turning on a Lamp
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| Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2007 9:58 pm Post subject: |
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1. I'm not a lifer. After I return to close my bank accounts in a couple of weeks, I may be gone forever.
2. I'm quiet. And I listen to the radio with earphones and keep the TV all the way down since the only thing I watch is the lingerie modeling channel.
3. When I do talk, I speak English, reassuring them that I won't be in Korea long enough to marry a Korean chick or get one pregnant on purpose.
4. I always make a perfect score on my STD tests.
5. I'm a womanizer, not a pedophile. |
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blaseblasphemener
Joined: 01 Jun 2006
Location: There's a voice, keeps on calling me, down the road, that's where I'll always be
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| Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2007 10:13 pm Post subject: |
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| Bryan wrote: |
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| What are you doing to help our reputations, if anything? |
I support the US military. The same military that made a free country so that South Koreans are not starving to death and eating pine needles right now, like the communists in the North. I'm sure they appreciate having electricity, food, and not being subject to a ruthless dictator's whims. |
I'm sure the people were grateful for that in the 1950's. 50 years ago...can ya'll just go home now? |
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pest2
Joined: 01 Jun 2005
Location: Vancouver, Canada
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| Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2007 10:19 pm Post subject: |
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| blaseblasphemener wrote: |
| Bryan wrote: |
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| What are you doing to help our reputations, if anything? |
I support the US military. The same military that made a free country so that South Koreans are not starving to death and eating pine needles right now, like the communists in the North. I'm sure they appreciate having electricity, food, and not being subject to a ruthless dictator's whims. |
I'm sure the people were grateful for that in the 1950's. 50 years ago...can ya'll just go home now? |
As a US citizen, that what my vote says... but the executive branch thinks differently. |
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blaseblasphemener
Joined: 01 Jun 2006
Location: There's a voice, keeps on calling me, down the road, that's where I'll always be
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1. I attempted to carry a passed-out drunk to safety, who was lying in the middle of a road during rush hour, in the rain. He tried to choke me, so I put him down, then dragged him by his ankles. A korean got out of his car and helped me, but only because he couldn't have a foreigner helping his brethern while Koreans drove by.
2. I babysit/teach annoying Korean children so that their mothers can spend 3 hours a day in a coffee shop, or sleeping.
3. I don't dress like I just got off vacation from Phuket.
4. I wait an extra 10 seconds at a crosswalk while cars that should have slowed down don't. It's only 10 seconds.
5. I don't follow the black chairman/equis/mercedes and key it, even though it drives as though it is the only car on the road. I want to hurt him, but I try to be the bigger man. |
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RJjr
Joined: 17 Aug 2006
Location: Turning on a Lamp
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| Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2007 10:25 pm Post subject: |
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| blaseblasphemener wrote: |
| Bryan wrote: |
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| What are you doing to help our reputations, if anything? |
I support the US military. The same military that made a free country so that South Koreans are not starving to death and eating pine needles right now, like the communists in the North. I'm sure they appreciate having electricity, food, and not being subject to a ruthless dictator's whims. |
I'm sure the people were grateful for that in the 1950's. 50 years ago...can ya'll just go home now? |
As a US citizen, that what my vote says... but the executive branch thinks differently. |
Yeah, me too. Bush and the Korean government needs to let our boys come home. |
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