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[Whistleblower]

An interesting article about the "f" word. Any opinions? Do you like being called by the "f" word? Would you call others by the "f" word? What is the future like here when you no longer hear the "f" word? Don't know what I mean, have a read of the article below.

[Frankly Mr Shankly]

I totally fuckin concur.

[bovinerebel]

Yeah , it seems a little wierd to label people of various ethinicities and nationalities under one single label.

To wrap my mind around it I thought of what we'd call "foriegners" in my home country. We'd almost always refer to them by their nationality or some kind of nick name(pommie , aussie , yank etc). But it'd never make us think the person in question was in anyway much different to us. The idea of saying "the foriegner" is very strange to me because it seem to brand and define someone not by what they are , but what they aren't.....(Korean).

[thematrixiam]

back home the term was immigrant... but it was used less often and more light hearted. When it was used it was either as a joke, or in reference to conversation about someones past. Never as a label.

I am definately not a fan of the overuse of waygook.... as well as, Delicious.

[Whistleblower]

I hate the Korean term for foreigner, it basically means an outsider who is not Korean.

[Frankly Mr Shankly]

[thematrixiam]

'Sup my waygook'

[Cheonmunka]

In Korean, if you say, "네 겁," ('Your cup') backwards, it says, 'Fucken.'

[Insidejohnmalkovich]

I am a foreigner in Korea, you are a foreigner in Korea, we are all foreigners in Korea. <shrugs>

[Young FRANKenstein]

[nebraska1]

Actually what's more bizarre is when they travel outside Korea, the people that live in the country they are visiting are also called waegook or waegookin. To me that is just hysterical. If they go to Cambodia the Cambodians are foreigners, same for Thailand etc. Ya gotta love the consistency don't cha know.

N1

[Lekker]

What if there were no foreigners in Korea? There was a time not too long ago when that was a reality. Would they still have pictures of blonde haired women in advertisements?

[crusher_of_heads]

I tell one particular jackass "you Asians are odd that way" and I will continue-he doesn't struggle with the langauge, he's a condescending *beep*; so as he has done unto others, so it will be done unto him.

[jajdude]

Koreans like to draw some pretty clear lines about who is what; or rather, who is Korean and who is not, but it keeps getting harder. Kyopos must cause some confusion. This whole need for a certain identity doesn't seem to really help anyone that much.

[Justin Kimberlake]