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[Joe666]

I took a spanking!! 8 out of 17. Pure blood? Say it aint so!!

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[ashland]

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[Old Gil]

As I've said before, a better term would be 'ethnicism' but that word does not exist. The fact that Korean is not a race does not make Koreans who think themselves to indeed be a separate and superior race not racist. I could say that only white guys of a certain height from the my area of Illinois are a race and that all others are inferior, and obviously my arbitrary and flat out stupid definition of the word 'race' does not in any way change the fact that I would be a racist by thinking in that way.

Really, the roots of their conception of race on a linguistic level are pretty hazy and taken directly from the dirty dirty Chinese anyway. The term 민족 that Koreans are so fond of throwing around comes from the Chinese 民族-'minzu', a rather poorly defined term to begin with, perhaps "people clan" if translated literally character by character.

Korean living in China or their descendants who moved back to Korea are called "조선족"--the same "족/族". Obviously they are not of a seperate 족 from the Koreans who never left the peninsula, in some cases its a matter of two generations all of the sudden making them into a new 족. However this word is used anyway, further creating a false division within the society between the elect and the outside.

Of course the 조선족 aren't a separate race, but they're looked down upon by a lot of Koreans as untrustworthy and dishonest, and that itself is a racist viewpoint, whether or not there are actually two races involved in the discrimination. If one group believes itself to be superior based on an erroneous conception of blood/tribe/race, it is enough.

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