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| Do we Westerners bitch about KOrea Too much? |
| Yes, but most of our complaints are for good reason |
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29% |
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| Yes, and many of the complaints are petty and superficial |
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45% |
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| Yes, but the Korean people do it just as much, so it is justified |
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4% |
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| Yes, but we don't really mean it most of the time, we are just venting |
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20% |
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| No, you can never bitch too much about what happens to us here. |
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| No we don't actually complain all that much in the long run |
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hamlet712
Joined: 16 Mar 2007
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 Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2008 1:40 am Post subject: My Poll |
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SInce I started a hornets nest with my recent post, I am trying to be less of an ass with getting my points across.
I wanted to do this poll. |
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samd
Joined: 03 Jan 2007
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| Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2008 1:47 am Post subject: |
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I voted for the second option, not that that will surprise anyone.
If you want to be less of an ass, try not posting so much, and starting so many threads on the same topic. |
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hamlet712
Joined: 16 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2008 1:51 am Post subject: |
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Lots of poeple post more than me. I only became active this last weekend.
And since my last thread was worded way to badly to get serious responses, I am trying to break up some of the key points into a couple different threads. |
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diver
Joined: 16 Jun 2003
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| Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2008 2:11 am Post subject: |
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| I take issue with #1. If the complaints are for good reason, then it is not really complaining "too much" is it? |
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hamlet712
Joined: 16 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2008 2:23 am Post subject: |
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| Fair point, but seeing as though its possible to take crap, and not complain at all, I think the option is okay. |
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diver
Joined: 16 Jun 2003
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| Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2008 2:28 am Post subject: |
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| hamlet712 wrote: |
| Fair point, but seeing as though its possible to take crap, and not complain at all, I think the option is okay. |
Where's the option for "Call 'em as we see 'em"? Or rather, "We complain at a rate exactly proportionate to the amount of legitimate grievences we have". |
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hamlet712
Joined: 16 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2008 2:33 am Post subject: |
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I thought i had incorporated those ino the poll.
I tried to add them for you, but it won't let me edit the poll, only the initial comment |
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Ginormousaurus
Joined: 27 Jul 2006
Location: 700 Ft. Pulpit
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| Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2008 3:30 am Post subject: |
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| Many posters on this site bitch too much about petty things. Some things though do merit a good bitching. I think westerners in general don't bitch too much. I base that on my large group of friends. |
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spliff
Joined: 19 Jan 2004
Location: Khon Kaen, Thailand
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| Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2008 3:33 am Post subject: |
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| I thought this was gonna be about your pole. |
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hamlet712
Joined: 16 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2008 4:14 am Post subject: |
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| spliff wrote: |
| I thought this was gonna be about your pole. |
Hey spliff, I will gladly sell you my pole for four times what it is worth.
Then I will only send you half of a pole to teach you a lesson. 
Did Inukshuk grow a pair and send you the rest of your stuff yet?
I'm positive that he didn't. Sorry you got screwed on that by the way. |
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Kimchieluver
Joined: 02 Mar 2005
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| Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2008 5:12 am Post subject: |
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| hamlet712 wrote: |
| spliff wrote: |
| I thought this was gonna be about your pole. |
Hey spliff, I will gladly sell you my pole for four times what it is worth.
Then I will only send you half of a pole to teach you a lesson.
Did Inukshuk grow a pair and send you the rest of your stuff yet?
I'm positive that he didn't. Sorry you got screwed on that by the way. |
You guys should get a room or at least PM this stuff. |
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yingwenlaoshi
Joined: 12 Feb 2007
Location: ... location, location!
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| Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2008 5:15 am Post subject: |
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| Your pole is flawed. It's not long enough, but we all knew that. |
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jkelly80
Joined: 13 Jun 2007
Location: you boys like mexico?
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| Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2008 5:29 am Post subject: |
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| Critical thinking and refusing to accept cultural relativism as an excuse for classless behavior is not complaining. |
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samd
Joined: 03 Jan 2007
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| Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2008 6:08 am Post subject: |
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| jkelly80 wrote: |
| Critical thinking and refusing to accept cultural relativism as an excuse for classless behavior is not complaining. |
Funny that you claim to be a critical thinker yet you deride cultural relativism on a regular basis, despite cultural relativism being accepted by academia as absolutely neccesary when viewing other cultures.
A good starting point if you're interesting in doing any critical thinking on the topic:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_relativism |
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jkelly80
Joined: 13 Jun 2007
Location: you boys like mexico?
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| Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2008 6:14 am Post subject: |
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| samd wrote: |
| jkelly80 wrote: |
| Critical thinking and refusing to accept cultural relativism as an excuse for classless behavior is not complaining. |
Funny that you claim to be a critical thinker yet you deride cultural relativism on a regular basis, despite cultural relativism being accepted by academia as absolutely neccesary when viewing other cultures.
A good starting point if you're interesting in doing any critical thinking on the topic:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_relativism |
Accepted by all academia in all disciplines regarded as valid by every single anthropologist and sociologist working in their field? Really?
I'm Korean. I see a woman smoking. I call her a *beep*. It's not my fault it's my culture?
I'm Korean. I beat my wife. It's OK because women were placed below men by Confucius over 2000 years ago. It's my culture. How can I be held responsible if I'm only following what my culture has dictated is acceptable?
There are standards for logic, and cultural relativism lacks these. |
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