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[Boodleheimer]

i don't know how 'f*in USA' goes. i wonder if they've been humming it and i've been oblivious...


now the paranoia sets in....

[bacasper]

[crusher_of_heads]

[mysteriousdeltarays]

Years ago, before some of you were even born really.

Shouts of "Ynangeekokomei" were almost as frequent as "Hey GI you want good time? Short time? Long time? I make you so happy, I so horney. E man won" ( 20,000 won. )

It was a mantra

It depended upon the gender what the rant was.

I was in Itaewon the other day, met some prostitute. It was one of these call out the door routines. I was with some guy I had just met on one of my "ramblings". I don't know he took off after a half hour or so. I think he was kind of condescending. Some sort of misaprehension happened.


After he left in some sort a huff, I don't know what over, perhaps a misplaced sexual encounter which is odd considering the clientele were prostitutes.

I don't know I was just having a beer. But one of them said to me "English Teachers, Canadians " She spit on the floor and then said "All trash!"

Something has gone seriously down hill when the prostitutes on Hooker Hill consider us trash.

It made me feel like ****

Well let's drop around the country club and play a few rounds.

[contrarian]

A couple of years ago while teaching a fourth year university "reading and discussion" class, a kid of edfinate leftist leanings started going one about how bad the Americans were. I got a little miffed and told him that if it wasn't for the Americans he would be starving in North Korea.

The rest of the class actually applauded my comment.

[mgafunnell]

people are stupid. it isn't your fault korea needed the usa to sort out their problems.

[No_hite_pls]

[bacasper]

[crusher_of_heads]

[djsmnc]

I've convinced adult students before that I'm from an island off of Korea that western explorers have dwelled on since the 1500's and speak a different dialect of Korean mixed with English. And you're upset because you think a kid knows what "Yankee go home" means???

[bluelake]

As most of my university students weren't even born when I first came to Korea, I usually open up the first semester saying to them, "Welcome to Korea!"

[idonojacs]

Here's something to think about:

What if instead of yelling "Yankee go home!" a student whispers "child abuser"? What if the kids start a rumor? What if a kid says this to a parent?

And what if it is totally false?

Kids learn prejudice and fear of other types of people from their parents. What are these new E-2 regulations going to teach the children?

And what if you are falsely accused of child abuse? It's happened elsewhere. In the West, authorities have learned the hard way that a child, or even groups of children, can make up stories about these sorts of things. People have been falsely convicted in the West, and later found to be totally innocent. What would happen in Korea in this climate of fear the government is creating?

Do all of your students like and respect you? Or do some of them hate your guts because you try to enforce basic discipline? Would they take advantage of a golden opportunity to retaliate?

If the Korean government can claim with a straight face that the captain of an anchored foreign-owned tanker is at fault (at least partially) for a collision with a runaway Korean barge hauling a crane, what chance do you have of justice? Even if the accusations are preposterous, wouldn't the Korean officials say you must be at least partially to blame?

And what do you think would happen in a Korean prison to a Western "abuser of Korean children"?

Korean officials have already demonstrated over and over their inability to distinguish between "alleged" and "convicted" when it comes to Westerners. (Some posters on this site seem to have the same problem.)

And what will happen with E-2 regs if Korea catches a child abuser here, real or not? How much further can they go?

You can bet that Korean officials would just love to catch a Western child abuser or two teaching here; it would prove that their paranoia was justified.

The U.S. uses the bogeyman of terrorism to stir up fear and hatred, and distract its citizens from the real problems the administration is failing to address. Korea appears to be using English teachers for this.

When you put all the pieces together, the picture is not pretty.

[hari seldon]

Don't tolerate disrespectful behavior in your classroom. Teachers are highly respected authority figures in Confucian societies. Use it.

[bacasper]