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Global Culture: Argument Against Cultural Relativity
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tomato



Joined: 31 Jan 2003
Location: I get so little foreign language experience, I must be in Koreatown, Los Angeles.

PostPosted: Sat Apr 12, 2008 4:02 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

crash bang wrote:
as a citizen of the u.s. and a resident of korea, i am bound by the laws of korea. i dont expect anything else


I hope you're not also bound by the customs of Korea.
I hope you don't teach straight out of the book for the whole fifty minutes, with no songs, no picture books, no educational games, and no conversation practice.
That's what Korean custom dictates, so that's what a former employer demanded of me.
I gave her two month's notice.
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crash bang



Joined: 11 Jul 2007
Location: gwangju

PostPosted: Sat Apr 12, 2008 3:53 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

apparently you didnt read the part where i said

social customs and mores are a bit more fluid,

RIF
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crash bang



Joined: 11 Jul 2007
Location: gwangju

PostPosted: Sat Apr 12, 2008 3:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

That's what Korean custom dictates, so that's what a former employer demanded of me.
I gave her two month's notice.


<<golf clap>>
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tomato



Joined: 31 Jan 2003
Location: I get so little foreign language experience, I must be in Koreatown, Los Angeles.

PostPosted: Sat Apr 12, 2008 6:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

crash bang wrote:
apparently you didnt read the part where i said

social customs and mores are a bit more fluid,

RIF


No, I missed that part.
Sorry.
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crash bang



Joined: 11 Jul 2007
Location: gwangju

PostPosted: Sun Apr 13, 2008 3:53 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

you do know that you just caused a riff in the spacetime continuum by admitting an error while posting to an online forum? al gore's rule of imrightativity. i'll be thinking of you when the black hole is ripping me apart
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