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kiwiduncan
Joined: 18 Jun 2007
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 Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2008 9:03 pm Post subject: My observation was incorrect |
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A few days ago in another thread I noted that a surprising number of my university students had - using a set of pictures I gave them - produced short stories that mostly portrayed the African businessman in a very negative light ('He is gangster", "He kill wife" etc).
I'm going over their grammar now and, on closer inspection of the stories, it seems there are as many positive references to the businessman as there are negative. In many cases in fact he has married the Korean TV announcer in the pictures. |
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Paul_Zerzan
Joined: 26 Sep 2007
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| Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2008 9:51 pm Post subject: Re: My observation was incorrect |
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| kiwiduncan wrote: |
A few days ago in another thread I noted that a surprising number of my university students had - using a set of pictures I gave them - produced short stories that mostly portrayed the African businessman in a very negative light ('He is gangster", "He kill wife" etc).
I'm going over their grammar now and, on closer inspection of the stories, it seems there are as many positive references to the businessman as there are negative. In many cases in fact he has married the Korean TV announcer in the pictures. |
And they both lived happily ever after |
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Billy Pilgrim
Joined: 08 Sep 2004
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| Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2008 10:23 pm Post subject: Re: My observation was incorrect |
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| kiwiduncan wrote: |
A few days ago in another thread I noted that a surprising number of my university students had - using a set of pictures I gave them - produced short stories that mostly portrayed the African businessman in a very negative light ('He is gangster", "He kill wife" etc).
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Yeah, it'll be hard to pin that on latent racism, as most of the stories my uni students produce end up with some form of death, dismemberment or otherwise disgusting plot twist, irrespective of who the story is actually about. |
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caniff
Joined: 03 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2008 10:29 pm Post subject: |
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That's cool that you updated what you had said, and not to be too negative, but are you sure some didn't write that for comedic value?
I don't know how much to read into this. But anyway, there it is. |
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kiwiduncan
Joined: 18 Jun 2007
Location: New Zealand
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| Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2008 4:57 pm Post subject: |
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One of the stories:
"Former years, there was one man. He is African. One day he met Korean woman, it is destiny. He is falling love. Several times he tried propose but that times she dismiss his mind. So he decide to succeed anything, because he think that she consider him worthless and useless and ugly.
After long time he is a banana business' CEO and became multimillionaire. She became famous announcer. By chance, two person encounter at airport. Thereafter they have time for a tea, and he say his story that he become CEO and loves for her.
Finally, she accept his mind. She is deeply impressed. So they married and born a child. He's name is (Teacher). His father give (Teacher) bananas, always, from baby time to now. So nowadays, he see the banana, suddenly he utmost is joyful." |
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caniff
Joined: 03 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2008 5:02 pm Post subject: |
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| kiwiduncan wrote: |
One of the stories:
"Former years, there was one man. He is African. One day he met Korean woman, it is destiny. He is falling love. Several times he tried propose but that times she dismiss his mind. So he decide to succeed anything, because he think that she consider him worthless and useless and ugly.
After long time he is a banana business' CEO and became multimillionaire. She became famous announcer. By chance, two person encounter at airport. Thereafter they have time for a tea, and he say his story that he become CEO and loves for her.
Finally, she accept his mind. She is deeply impressed. So they married and born a child. He's name is (Teacher). His father give (Teacher) bananas, always, from baby time to now. So nowadays, he see the banana, suddenly he utmost is joyful." |
Not bad writing for a non-native speaker, but I think you can see the comedic slant on that one. |
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kiwiduncan
Joined: 18 Jun 2007
Location: New Zealand
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| Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2008 5:10 pm Post subject: |
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| I was particularly impressed by another story in which the dapper and charming African enterpriser turns out to be a patriotic spy of the Kenyan Information Bureau. He mets the young Korean graduate - the youthful head of a top Korean chemistry company (having refused to become a dutiful housewife) and ruins her career. She then plots her revenge. |
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ED209
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| Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2008 5:33 pm Post subject: |
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| So any black guys out there needing to get laid just claim to be a banana business CEO. Guess being a CEO makes Korean gals colour blind. |
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Paul_Zerzan
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| Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2008 6:14 pm Post subject: |
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| They're calling the teacher a half-breed banana-eating monkey. |
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maddog
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| Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2008 6:15 pm Post subject: |
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| caniff wrote: |
| kiwiduncan wrote: |
One of the stories:
"Former years, there was one man. He is African. One day he met Korean woman, it is destiny. He is falling love. Several times he tried propose but that times she dismiss his mind. So he decide to succeed anything, because he think that she consider him worthless and useless and ugly.
After long time he is a banana business' CEO and became multimillionaire. She became famous announcer. By chance, two person encounter at airport. Thereafter they have time for a tea, and he say his story that he become CEO and loves for her.
Finally, she accept his mind. She is deeply impressed. So they married and born a child. He's name is (Teacher). His father give (Teacher) bananas, always, from baby time to now. So nowadays, he see the banana, suddenly he utmost is joyful." |
Not bad writing for a non-native speaker, but I think you can see the comedic slant on that one. |
From a middle school student, maybe. From a university student, no way. |
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