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PigeonFart
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TheUrbanMyth
Joined: 28 Jan 2003
Location: Retired
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| Yep, read it already. Bang on in my opinion. |
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Moldy Rutabaga
Joined: 01 Jul 2003
Location: Ansan, Korea
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| The funny thing is, with the passage of time, something does happen to long-term foreigners which makes them more like real exiles, and they do not like it at all. The homeland which they left behind changes. The culture, the politics and their old friends all change, die, forget them. They come to feel that they are foreigners even when visiting �home�. |
Excellent article. Very true to many of my experiences. |
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PRagic
Joined: 24 Feb 2006
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| Give that foreigner a cigar! Insightful for long-termers with just enough smack-to-the-ego for short-termers to keep it interesting. Great read. |
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nautilus
Joined: 26 Nov 2005
Location: Je jump, Tu jump, oui jump!
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| In South Korea last year 42% of the population had never knowingly spoken to a foreigner. |
Korea is still the last outpost to some extent.
I'd like to see how this country is in 40 years time. |
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TECO
Joined: 20 Jan 2003
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The comments about Japan were bang on. Everyone in Japan wears a uniform, from the housewives on their "mama-cherries", to the salary men on the trains.
And foreigners are supposed to act like foreigners and shouldn't try to speak Japanese because it's much too difficult for them to ever learn. |
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