Beej
Joined: 05 Mar 2005
Location: Eungam Loop
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 Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2008 7:59 am Post subject: |
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Well, according to Margaret Cho, Korea was compelled to apologize by the American racists...
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MC: Well, it's hard because when you're Asian, when you're an immigrant, your welcome in this country is really conditional. And it depends on your good behavior, basically, and your achievements. And we're not considered a part of the country like white people are.
During Virginia Tech, South Korea had to offer condolences, and that's just weird, because that kid was American. And yet so much of his identity was wrapped up in his Koreanness, because that's what was used to define him.
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Apparently, Margaret Cho is unaware of the Korean government and media's penchant for defining overseas Koreans or their descendants as Korean, no matter how tenuous their connection to Korea.
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Margaret Cho is wrong ( and was never funny.) South korea didnt have to apologize. No one in the US wanted it or expected an apology. South Korea apologized out of there own warped sense of Koreaness. Nobody except Koreans ( and some posters on Daves ESL)defined him as a Korean. |
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