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[tfunk]

Sorry about the suggestive title, I have to come down to your level and if that's the only thing that's making you read my post then I'm a happy lady. I'm having a hissy fit in my pants right now, philosophizing about everything I can get my hands on.

Here are the results:

1. Confucius was a waygukin.

The idea that Koreans don't respect foreign cultures because of the Confucius way of thinking is paradoxical.

2. Being knowledgeable about culture is considered superior to living according to a culture.

A lot of westerners approach culture as a tourist attraction or entertainment and can distance themselves intellectually and historically from the conditioning of their own cultures. Originally, all cultures were not artifacts in a museum but social life in the present moment. If you think Westeners have more culture than Koreans then you are talking about culture in the past which is kind of like an old man in a wheelchair showing up at a baseball game and saying he could whup everybody's donkey in his heyday.

3. If you met your great great grandfather and had to share a day with him, you wouldn't know what to say or how to relate to him. Sure, you could exchange pleasantries, but you can do that with pretty much everybody.

4. As a human there are less degrees of separation between you and a rapist than you and Thomas Jefferson. If you're proud to be American then you must also be ashamed to be American because selective association is wishful thinking.

5. There's no escaping culture. McDonalds Happy Meals will one day be revered in Holo-Museums.

6. Culture, traditionally, has been exclusive. Museums are full of war machines, clothing that distinguishes people according to their social hierarchy etc. A culture that is inclusive loses it's identity.

7. Westeners enjoy Korea as a novelty but become frustrated when Korean culture doesn't accommodate their outlook of what a society should be.

8. Korea is still at war, psychologically.

The end. Mods, please lock this post and make it a sticky.

[nicholas_chiasson]

Do you actually have a unified single point and can you post pics of the wrestling cos-play, over the age of consent, lolicon, truthfulchat upsetting schoolgirls with their tight white shirts unbuttoned to the waist and I'll buy you a drink if you tell me?

[tfunk]

[nicholas_chiasson]

doubtless you have read of the link with k-confucism and the military reforms of some dynasty or kingdom in the distant pabst blue ribbon...er past of k-land. In which military command was justified as a confucian heirerarchy...or sorts. Who's waving now?

[tfunk]

[Pink Freud]

I couldn't say something nice, so now I'm not saying anything at all.

[tfunk]

I'm trying to beat the 'Koreans torture love rival' post in terms of views (no, I'm not going to link to it) by the end of the day.

I'm betting 10,000 Won on it. Me thinks the bit about the 'ill-washed spoon' will raise a few eyebrows.

[laogaiguk]

God I need to stop opening any threads on this site anymore. They let people out of university way too easily nowadays.

[tfunk]

[tfunk]

I guess it's just like my Dad always told me it was: you're a loser.

[saw6436]

Teenage angst is alive and well, sad to say.

[cbclark4]

Where's the link?

I didn't see a link?

Did someone take it?

Who has the link?

[cuckoo for kimchi]

you lost me at.....Sorry about the suggestive title

[flakfizer]

http://forums.eslcafe.com/korea/viewtopic.php?t=116739

[pugwall]