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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| ardis wrote: |
| My friends get it sometimes because they're blonde. They keep going "You're so lucky you don't go through this." It's kind of irksome, considering I've heard, "Hey, ching chang--want to love me long time??" for the past decade or so whenever I go somewhere. Racism from Koreans, racism from Americans--great. |
Indeed. Same shoe just different foot and wearer. |
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ella
Joined: 17 Apr 2006
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| Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2008 7:18 am Post subject: |
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| I WAS once asked if I were Russian by a WOMAN!!! Wonder what THAT was all about! |
I was asked that by a woman once, too. I was putting up my hair and I think she was just interested in the blonde hair. She was very sweet and I didn't take it as anything but interest and curiosity.
If a random Korean man came up to me on the street and said the same thing I would be much more likely to take it as, "Are you a prostitute?" |
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lastat06513
Joined: 18 Mar 2003
Location: Sensus amo Caesar , etiamnunc victus amo uni plebian
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| Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2008 11:47 am Post subject: |
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The funny thing is, I am a man.
Yet when I went to places like Dongdaemun, the areas around the ports in Incheon and Busan, I would always have a salesperson or an ordinary bystander come up to me and start speaking Russian...I kidd you not......it wasn't until I learned Korean that I found the reason for it.
The most common asnwer is: "You look Russian.." and some even said "You look like a Gangster" (I think that was because of my broad shoulders, big chest and I usually wore a black motorcycle jacket)
When I was in China and Japan, I sometimes was confused with being a person from Germany or some other European country......
I am not sure how to take it, either as a compliment or as an insult... |
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Fishead soup
Joined: 24 Jun 2007
Location: Korea
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| Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2008 3:57 pm Post subject: |
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Love the comebacks!!
Yeah, it does piss me off too. Always seems to be the leery adjosshis or taxi-drivers who ask with a wicked smile.
Shopping in Busan last year, I had 2 Russian guys come up to me and start talking in Russian...  |
Does the issue of short time long time fee come up |
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cuckoo for kimchi
Joined: 27 Jul 2006
Location: somewhere lost in time and space...or korea
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| Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2008 10:41 pm Post subject: |
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| wrong tense man, at least out here or in busan...change it to WERE hot. |
Here at Everland most of em are pretty hot. Show girl hot! |
I think you meant Neverland.. |
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wylies99
Joined: 13 May 2006
Location: I'm one cool cat!
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| Posted: Sat Mar 08, 2008 7:00 pm Post subject: |
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Russian, eh?  |
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lastat06513
Joined: 18 Mar 2003
Location: Sensus amo Caesar , etiamnunc victus amo uni plebian
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| Posted: Sat Mar 08, 2008 8:10 pm Post subject: |
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| completely off to left field....wylies, you wouldn't happen to be listening to 'cannonball'? Are you? |
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fusionbarnone
Joined: 31 May 2004
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| Posted: Sun Mar 09, 2008 1:46 pm Post subject: |
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When I was traveling in Russia with an English journalist friend, there were times he wouldn't be admitted into restaurants without stern intervention from me and others because he looked like a Russian(this was the reason why some clubs and restaurants wouldn't let him in).
From men in Korea to a f asking the same thing to a female is just downright insulting. |
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