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in_seoul_2003
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Posted: Sun Dec 07, 2008 11:23 am Post subject: OUCH!: Oh, Gyopo, where art thou? |
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Knowing the mentality of Koreans, will all their penchants for "Koreans taking over the world" and "First Asians to do this and first Asians to do that", one can only imagine that their bragging rights are greatly diminishing in light of recent political events in the states.
First Cao and now Shinseki. Actually, come to think of it, for all the Korean hyperbole around their desires of accomplishments as the first Asians or Asian-Americans to do this or that, the list is quite slim, insignificant in fact. |
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thiophene
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Posted: Sun Dec 07, 2008 11:30 am Post subject: |
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| It's not a Korean mentality, it's a 'minority' (ie. non-white) mentality. They like to keep track of their 'firsts'. I dont know why, I think it just diminishes everyone. The majority look like they never accepted the minority until the event, and teh minority look inferior until the event. |
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bangbayed

Joined: 01 Dec 2005 Location: Seoul
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Posted: Sun Dec 07, 2008 10:54 pm Post subject: |
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| thiophene wrote: |
| It's not a Korean mentality, it's a 'minority' (ie. non-white) mentality. They like to keep track of their 'firsts'. I dont know why, I think it just diminishes everyone. The majority look like they never accepted the minority until the event, and teh minority look inferior until the event. |
Yah. Barack Obama - what's all the fuss about, eh? |
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Alyssa
Joined: 15 Jan 2006
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Posted: Mon Dec 08, 2008 12:09 am Post subject: Re: OUCH!: Oh, Gyopo, where art thou? |
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| in_seoul_2003 wrote: |
Knowing the mentality of Koreans, will all their penchants for "Koreans taking over the world" and "First Asians to do this and first Asians to do that", one can only imagine that their bragging rights are greatly diminishing in light of recent political events in the states.
First Cao and now Shinseki. Actually, come to think of it, for all the Korean hyperbole around their desires of accomplishments as the first Asians or Asian-Americans to do this or that, the list is quite slim, insignificant in fact. |
It shows how small they actually think they are
behind the big brave ethnocentric iron masks lie little sad people
who want to be BIG. |
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New Balance

Joined: 15 Jan 2007
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Posted: Mon Dec 08, 2008 1:50 am Post subject: |
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| Koreans are going to take over the world and they've started with the Korean language. They're pretty good I'd say. |
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jkelly80

Joined: 13 Jun 2007 Location: you boys like mexico?
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Posted: Mon Dec 08, 2008 6:05 am Post subject: |
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Chris_Dixon
Joined: 09 Jan 2008
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Posted: Mon Dec 08, 2008 6:06 am Post subject: |
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| tbh i find Americans just as bad and twice as annoying as Koreans |
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in_seoul_2003
Joined: 24 Nov 2003
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Posted: Mon Dec 08, 2008 1:06 pm Post subject: Re: OUCH!: Oh, Gyopo, where art thou? |
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| Alyssa wrote: |
| in_seoul_2003 wrote: |
Knowing the mentality of Koreans, will all their penchants for "Koreans taking over the world" and "First Asians to do this and first Asians to do that", one can only imagine that their bragging rights are greatly diminishing in light of recent political events in the states.
First Cao and now Shinseki. Actually, come to think of it, for all the Korean hyperbole around their desires of accomplishments as the first Asians or Asian-Americans to do this or that, the list is quite slim, insignificant in fact. |
It shows how small they actually think they are
behind the big brave ethnocentric iron masks lie little sad people
who want to be BIG. |
For sure.
I can't help but wonder if Shinseki had been Korean rather than Japanese whether we'd be reading in the Korean newspapers about how Korean-Americans are trailblazing ('The Korean Wave Sweeping Across America!', kind of crap) and how sometime very soon in the future there will be a Korean US president. But in Japan right now, they're probably like "Shinseki who?" |
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Jandar

Joined: 11 Jun 2008
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esetters21

Joined: 30 Apr 2006 Location: Seoul
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Posted: Tue Dec 09, 2008 2:24 am Post subject: |
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| Chris_Dixon wrote: |
| tbh i find Americans just as bad and twice as annoying as Koreans |
Where are you from? I don't find Americans to be that annoying (especially abroad). |
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