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mises
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| bovinerebel wrote: |
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| Sad to say but, for the most part, I've given up actually caring about the opinion(s) of 95% of the Koreans I meet/know. |
Opinions ? You find there's more than one ? |
Exactly. |
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CentralCali
Joined: 17 May 2007
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| Posted: Fri May 09, 2008 3:12 pm Post subject: Re: Anti Americanism in Korea. |
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| bovinerebel wrote: |
| She told me that these days most Koreans hated America and Americans. |
Tell her she's an ignorant sod. Last I heard, a survey of Koreans had the majority liking the US. And that wasn't too long ago. |
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Justin Hale
Joined: 24 Nov 2007
Location: the Straight Talk Express
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| Posted: Fri May 09, 2008 6:10 pm Post subject: |
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| South Korea is a hotbed of violent anti-Americanism. I recently wrote to Senator McCain expressing as much and he took it very seriously, with a nuclear strike on the North and the South likely within 6 months of his inauguration. |
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Benicio
Joined: 25 May 2006
Location: Down South- where it's hot & wet
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eamo
Joined: 08 Mar 2003
Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.
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Koreans and topical issues are like children with toys. They pick up something for a while, get bored of it quickly, then drop it and pick up something else.
But there has been anti-Americanism in Korea since the Korean War. It just comes and goes in waves. |
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wylies99
Joined: 13 May 2006
Location: I'm one cool cat!
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| Posted: Fri May 09, 2008 7:58 pm Post subject: |
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Nope. That's all there is to it. It's a fairly recent thing. Trust me; it'll blow over. I recommend you ignore students who slam the US right now. It's just media fueled ignorance...it's temporary.
These people love americans. |
Are you an American ? Just asking because that's REALLY not the impression I get. |
McDonalds, Baskin Robbins, Krispy Kreme, Disney, need I go on? |
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bovinerebel
Joined: 27 Feb 2008
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| Posted: Fri May 09, 2008 10:21 pm Post subject: |
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| wylies99 wrote: |
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Nope. That's all there is to it. It's a fairly recent thing. Trust me; it'll blow over. I recommend you ignore students who slam the US right now. It's just media fueled ignorance...it's temporary.
These people love americans. |
Are you an American ? Just asking because that's REALLY not the impression I get. |
McDonalds, Baskin Robbins, Krispy Kreme, Disney, need I go on? |
Do you think it registers that it's American ? I sometimes don't think korea has a good sense of perspective on these matters. |
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oskinny1
Joined: 10 Nov 2006
Location: Right behind you!
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| Posted: Sat May 10, 2008 5:31 am Post subject: |
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Agreed. When I asked my students...Burger King, Pizza Hut, Dominoes, Adidas and Puma were all Korean. |
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weatherman
Joined: 14 Jan 2003
Location: Korea
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| Posted: Sat May 10, 2008 5:43 am Post subject: |
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| Night Ranger wrote: |
| saw6436 wrote: |
| Sad to say but, for the most part, I've given up actually caring about the opinion(s) of 95% of the Koreans I meet/know. |
I hear that..except with me...its more like 99.9% |
Same here NR! |
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Dome Vans
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| Posted: Sat May 10, 2008 6:55 am Post subject: |
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Boohoo!
Come on. Let's imagine teaching at a school in America or England and bring up the topic of Muslims. I'm sure you'd get a equally stupid reply off your students. Racial intolerance isn't just a Korean thing. It's an uneducated remark. Laugh it off and move on.
If somebody said something sh*t about England I'd probably agree with them. Quit taking your own stupid country so seriously. |
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pastis
Joined: 20 Jun 2006
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Anti-Americanism is for the indignant, impecuniously vulgar and contemptible order of world-serfdom (as seen in countries like Korea). Even their petty, slanderous overlords always come to America on their knees when it counts. All are worthless, ungrateful scum resentful of their own inexorable inferiority.
Anyone with any self-worth and integrity knows America rules. |
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manlyboy
Joined: 01 Aug 2004
Location: Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia
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| Posted: Sat May 10, 2008 10:24 am Post subject: |
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| "Yankee go home!!! But please take me with you!" |
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browneyedgirl
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| Posted: Sat May 10, 2008 5:56 pm Post subject: |
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Boohoo!
Come on. Let's imagine teaching at a school in America or England and bring up the topic of Muslims. I'm sure you'd get a equally stupid reply off your students. |
Muslims are one of those groups students can't say anything bad about in American colleges; although, teachers and students will often put down Jews quite often without getting in trouble. |
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Grab the Chickens Levi
Joined: 29 Apr 2008
Location: Ilsan
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| Posted: Mon May 12, 2008 8:14 pm Post subject: |
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| pastis wrote: |
Anti-Americanism is for the indignant, impecuniously vulgar and contemptible order of world-serfdom (as seen in countries like Korea). Even their petty, slanderous overlords always come to America on their knees when it counts. All are worthless, ungrateful scum resentful of their own inexorable inferiority.
EDIT Anyone with any self-worth and integrity knows America rules Iraq and Afghanistan. |
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mises
Joined: 05 Nov 2007
Location: retired
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| Posted: Mon May 12, 2008 8:24 pm Post subject: |
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| browneyedgirl wrote: |
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Boohoo!
Come on. Let's imagine teaching at a school in America or England and bring up the topic of Muslims. I'm sure you'd get a equally stupid reply off your students. |
Muslims are one of those groups students can't say anything bad about in American colleges; although, teachers and students will often put down Jews quite often without getting in trouble. |
The Uni's go out of their way to apologize for muslim behaviors and ideas too.
In the case below, a muslim threatened to kill a dog that a man kept with to protect him during epileptic fits. The uni did not discipline the muslim and apologized for the misunderstanding of having a dog in a class with a muslim calling it "part of the growth process when we become more diverse" and apologized for the "misunderstanding".
http://www.sctimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080512/NEWS01/105120058 |
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