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nicholas_chiasson

Joined: 14 Jun 2007 Location: Samcheok
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Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 3:30 am Post subject: Why I why never date an American Woman...or a korean |
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...because she won't date me! Seriously writing off ethnicites is not in a guy's best interests. Although I figured out I'm never going to find a girl in Korea....Watch the numbers.
There are 17,346,594 women in Korea between the age of 14-64
Let us asume half of them are in the range of 18-32. This is a silly figure but to prove otherwise would require using deviations based on data not easily found.
-8,682,297 Women between the age of 18-32
Now of these almost one in 5 live in Seoul (out of 48,000,000 people Seoul is 9 million). I am very very far from Seoul in Rural Gangwon-do. Also Seoul girls look down on Gangwon-do. Therefore we have 6,694,638
-6,694,638 Women of marriagable age not living in Seoul
However...some of them are already married. As I am not interested in breaking up happy homes...I must avoid these cougars. Let us assume since the average age of marriage is 27 for women...meaning that half of the women from 27-32 are married. This is half of one seventh of the sample. So removing the married women gives me 5,578,865
-So with 5,578,865 between 18-32, not married and not in Seoul
I should be all happy except now it gets ugly. I'm good looking. No not model good looking not vain nor insanse. I believe I'm Better looking than 65% of the population. In other words 35% is better looking than me. However, I'm going to go out on a limb and say half of single Korean women are attractive enough. Half of these women=2,789,432 women. I don't think saying half of the females in korea are attractive is a lie, nor is it unfair to say half of them aren't. Also those who have overdosed on plastic surgery, or have skin diseases are included in this list.
-2,789,432 Women single not in Seoul attractive and not married of age
Ok random statistic. How many Korean women will marry a foreigner? Watch 14% of Korean marriages were international in 2005. However only 12% of these marriages were to Americans. So let us say that 14% of Korean women would marry a foreigner. We will simply ignore the American statistic. So 390,520 women want to marry a white dude. I figure that using the rate of foreign marriage with a sample population, in which the sample population includes people who WANT to get get married I should get a reasonable finding
-390,520 Women who are single, of age, pretty, would marry a foreigner and don't live in Seoul. Ok I don't speak Korean. We need a girl who speaks either Russian or English or French, although the last it a stretch. Let us assume, once again this is a statistic that makes no sense but, 50% speak enough of a second language for us to talk on some level. (I could learn Korean but I am LAZY!) This gives us 195,260. I'm going to stop here and say I could happily marry any and all of these 195,260 Women. However...this is a number that become scary
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IF there are 8,682,297 women of age in Korea...and 195,260 want to marry me. I have a 2% chance if finding one who meets my critique. Yep, I have to meet 98 Women to meet two. In other words if I meet 2 new girls a week IT WILL BE ALMOST A YEAR UNTIL I FIND A CHICK! DAMN !
--by the way I meet one girl a MONTH! |
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SuperFly

Joined: 09 Jul 2003 Location: In the doghouse
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cdninkorea

Joined: 27 Jan 2006 Location: Seoul
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Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 4:07 am Post subject: |
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A string of premises based on possibilities, even if moderately probable, end in a very unlikely conclusion.
Of course, you could very well be joking. But if you're not, may I suggest some more research? |
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nicholas_chiasson

Joined: 14 Jun 2007 Location: Samcheok
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Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 4:26 am Post subject: |
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cdninkorea wrote: |
A string of premises based on possibilities, even if moderately probable, end in a very unlikely conclusion.
Of course, you could very well be joking. But if you're not, may I suggest some more research? |
I did get real statistics if you want me to quote them. |
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Justin Hale

Joined: 24 Nov 2007 Location: the Straight Talk Express
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Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 4:55 am Post subject: |
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I wish you put said statistics in proper paragraphs. Give me one, single, solitary reason why I should read a so-called English teacher's writing - no matter how true, decent and evidenced - if it isn't written in a form consensually recognized as proper by the educated classes. Your writing style suggests you're a man of questionable wits, upbringing and character. I teach Korean people, who struggle to utter a sentence, who know how to write. You are from ______, an E2 Visa country, and write in a horrible fashion. |
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nicholas_chiasson

Joined: 14 Jun 2007 Location: Samcheok
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Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 5:34 am Post subject: |
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I'm hoping that post was meant to be funny. Please don't tell me that you cann tell I'm a man of questionable character as I didn't use MLA format. |
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Atavistic
Joined: 22 May 2006 Location: How totally stupid that Korean doesn't show in this area.
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Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 7:36 am Post subject: |
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I thought this was going to be a coming out thread. |
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Young FRANKenstein

Joined: 02 Oct 2006 Location: Castle Frankenstein (that's FRONKensteen)
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Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 8:29 am Post subject: |
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Justin Hale wrote: |
I teach Korean people, [...] who know how to write. |
I have yet to meet one. |
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Kuros
Joined: 27 Apr 2004
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Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 3:01 pm Post subject: |
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Justin Hale wrote: |
I teach Korean people, whom struggle to utter a sentence, whom know how to write. |
Fixed it for you. |
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mikeyboy122
Joined: 28 Feb 2008 Location: namyang
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Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 5:23 pm Post subject: |
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Have you ever considered guys? Just wonderin'................................  |
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Justin Hale

Joined: 24 Nov 2007 Location: the Straight Talk Express
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Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 5:37 pm Post subject: |
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Kuros wrote: |
Justin Hale wrote: |
I teach Korean people, whom struggle to utter a sentence, whom know how to write. |
Fixed it for you. |
Rubbish. The who/whom (subject/object) distinction is archaic. |
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crusher_of_heads
Joined: 23 Feb 2007 Location: kimbop and kimchi for kimberly!!!!
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flakfizer

Joined: 12 Nov 2004 Location: scaling the Cliffs of Insanity with a frayed rope.
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Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 7:19 pm Post subject: |
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Kuros wrote: |
Justin Hale wrote: |
I teach Korean people, whom struggle to utter a sentence, whom know how to write. |
Fixed it for you. |
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When referring to people use these relative pronouns:
(A person)-- Who, Whom, Whoever, Whomever
These pronouns take a different case depending on whether the relative pronoun is a subject or an object in the dependent clause. Therefore, it becomes critical to not only know the subject and object forms of these pronouns but to be able to identify how they are being used in the dependent clause.
Determining the case of relative pronouns:
When these relative pronouns are the subject (initiating the action) of the dependent clause, use the subjective case.
Subjective/Nominative case Who, Whoever
Negotiations were not going smoothly between the two leaders, who made no bones about not liking each other.
WHO relates back to the noun LEADERS and is the subject of the dependent clause and the verb MADE.
Hillary Clinton's staff said it was the first lady who wasn't feeling well.
WHO relates back to the noun FIRST LADY and is the subject of the dependent clause and the verb WAS FEELING.
Most workers, whoever was not employed by the auto manufacturer, toiled at one of the millions of little minnow companies.
WHOEVER relates back to the noun WORKERS and is the subject of the dependent clause and the verb WAS EMPLOYED.
When these relative pronouns are the object (receiving the action) of the dependent clause, use the objective case
Objective case Whom, Whomever
Clinton knows that he is a polarizing figure whom people either love or hate.
WHOM relates back to the noun FIGURE and is the object of the verbs LOVE and HATE. The subject of the dependent clause is PEOPLE.
This is the approach taken by journalists, whom some consider to be objective.
WHOM relates back to the noun JOURNALISTS and is the object of the verb CONSIDER. The subject of the dependent clause is SOME.
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Unless I misunderstand this (which is possible as I am no grammar expert) the subject of Justin Hale's dependent clause was initiating action (the people (who) struggle) and he was right to use "who." |
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nicholas_chiasson

Joined: 14 Jun 2007 Location: Samcheok
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Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 11:37 pm Post subject: |
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The "Don't do it BOYS" thread doesn't do it for me. |
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kermo

Joined: 01 Sep 2004 Location: Eating eggs, with a comb, out of a shoe.
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Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2008 12:21 am Post subject: |
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nicholas_chiasson wrote: |
cdninkorea wrote: |
A string of premises based on possibilities, even if moderately probable, end in a very unlikely conclusion.
Of course, you could very well be joking. But if you're not, may I suggest some more research? |
I did get real statistics if you want me to quote them. |
Not every eligible woman in Korea has *met* a single foreign male of your calibre. They might be willing to marry (or just date) a foreign guy but haven't had the chance. That's good news.
However, your statistics on interracial marriage wasn't broken down by which person in the couple was Korean. I think that if you take a look, you might find that the majority of those marriages involved Korean men and Southeast Asian women. That's just my guess... but it would be bad news for this theory of yours. |
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