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[Gimpokid]

I walked into my 3rd grade class today and one of my students was writing on the board. She was drawing a picture of a Pac Man style ghost with the word 유령 and my name next to it.

"WTF is this?" I asked to which she replied "ghost teachurr *giggle*." "That's nice." *Flick to the forehead* "Now sit down."

I initally thought she was was being a weird/dumb kid, but then I started thinking about my time in Japan where calling a white person a ghost was a fairly insulting racial slur.

Was I called the equivelant of n1gger teacher today? Should tomorrow's lesson be about tolerance and bigotry followed by a spirited game of "break my foot off in your ass" or was it just a kid being dumb?

Is being called a ghost as insulting as I'm starting to believe?

[okokok]

Yes. Yes, it is.

[Gimpokid]

Thought so. Somebody call an excoricst because there's gonna be a very angry aprition and a very sad little girl somewhere in Korea tomorrow.

[okokok]

[Straphanger]

[Joe666]

To The Gimp - You must be extremely pale. K-people have a lot of nerve calling us white, I have seen some corpses walking around this country. Don't let it get to you! I was called a mosquito by some punk kid because my nose never got flattened properly.

[Joe666]

To The Gimp - You must be extremely pale. K-people have a lot of nerve calling us white, I have seen some corpses walking around this country. Don't let it get to you! I was called a mosquito by some punk kid because my nose never got flattened properly.

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[Morning_Star]

You flicked the girl on the head? YOU ABUSIVE MORON!!!!!!

CREEP!! You totally deserve to be called that and worse! You're clearly not cut out to be a teacher of ANY kind!

[wesharris]

[Yesterday]

I thought many a time - that I really was a ghost in Korea.

Because, often whilst walking down the footpath an ajumma or a adashi on a motorcycle would try to walk/ride through me -

and sometimes whilst trying to cross the street, cars would try to drive through me (without stopping)...

and sometimes when I walk into a shop, the sales staff would freeze - as if they suddenly got cold-chills but would act as if they couldn't see me in the shop...

and sometimes whilst waiting in a queue - people would just walk in front of me as if I wasn't there...

because of these things - I am sure I am a ghost.

[poet13]

"
You flicked the girl on the head? YOU ABUSIVE MORON!!!!!!

CREEP!! You totally deserve to be called that and worse! You're clearly not cut out to be a teacher of ANY kind!"

You have obviously never taken a child outside and set him on fire. The rest behave after that, believe me.

[Insidejohnmalkovich]

[superacidjax]

[Gimpokid]

Morning Star are you for real? If a flick on the head disqualifies someone from being a "good" teacher than there is not a single good teacher of Korean ethnicity on this whole penninsula. I'm not trying to be Mr. Rogers or Happy Issac. I can only imagine what a typical day in one of your classrooms is like.

Anyway, yes I'm pretty white because of the lack of sun and I do get darker in the summer months.

I don't mind the kids pointing out that I'm white or look different. What I do mind is them using (what I thought was) a term of abuse. The actual terminology doesn't offend me only the intent. Isn't calling a black person a "spade" a somewhat accurate description? Out of context the word doesn't carry much weight at all, but it's still not something you should say.

[harlowethrombey]