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[Captain Corea]

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Take it to the butthurt forum, lads. Butts can get hurt many ways.

[Underwaterbob]

[mayorgc]

It's not really a slight to Korea when somebody says "Korea lacks creativity" or "koreans are not creative". Speaking in terms of Innovations/inventions, Koreans only create Korean things for Korean people. So yes, Koreans are creative when they create Korean products for Korean people.

Different countries are good at different things, relatively speaking, Country A can have almost zero creativity when compared to country B.

Every country on Earth boasts citizens who are creative, some countries just do a better job of creating things. It wouldn't really be a slight to Somalians if you said "Somalians aren't creative". So why is it a slight if you said "Korean's aren't creative"?

That list of Korean innovations and inventions listed from wikipedia is pretty sad though. Almost everything listed was created by Koreans, for Koreans and used in Korea.

Look at the list of stuff from canada, a relatively small and young country. In terms of inventions/innovations, Koreans have no creativity when compared to Canadians.

[Underwaterbob]

Change it to "Koreans don't support or encourage creativity" and I'll agree. Every test from middle to high school is multiple choice pass or fail. There's little government support for the arts, and little local support for artists. Samsung and Hyundai are a major deterrent to any smaller, competing businesses and are fully endorsed by (if not nearly controlling) the government.

Koreans do produce a large portion of American and Japanese animation.

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[Captain Corea]

[mayorgc]

I understand why that statement sounds like a slight; in many circumstances, it probably would be a slight.

But based on inventions/innovations originating from Korea, it pales in comparison to other wealthy/industrialized nations.

So obviously, Korea by itself contains lots of creative people. In fact, every country on Earth contains creative people.

But if you're comparing Korea to other countries (inventions/innovations), like China, Japan, U.S, Canada, then relatively speaking, Korea is not creative.

If you are not comparing Korea to other nations, then I can understand why the statement would seem like a slight.

but by that criteria, you can say that Somalia is not a dangerous country, when you don't compare it to other nations.

[Jeonmunka]

Some of the acts pay royalties ...
Anyway, listen to all the remix American stuff.

[PatrickGHBusan]

Basically what CC is reacting to is the sweeping nature of the statement made here (lack of creativity in KOREANS). I understand and agree with his reaction.

Sometimes people on this forum shoot off these comments about Koreans. A lot of times they are just comments they make without thinking and with no malicious intentions...just ignorant comments or shortcuts because generalisations are far easier to produce and create large categories that make for easy understanding. Basically, a generalisation is lazy writing based on a lazy thought process.

The other type of generalisation is the one made by a smaller number of people here which is racist in nature. You can read it in many threads like this. The topic discusses something about A KOREAN and the frenzy ensues with sweeping and demeaning comments worded on the 'Koreans are' template.

It takes more time to present things with perspective. It also makes discussion more complex because things become measured and include shades of gray. This however has the big advantage of fostering more constructive discussion. The sweeping comment on the other hand tends to fuel bash-threads.

Finally, CC made a salient point about the experience of many westerners in Korea and their interactions (or lack of interactions) with adult Koreans.

[pkang0202]

"Koreans" is referring to a group of people. If the person had said, "Korea lacks creativity" then I could agree with that. Korea, as a country, places much emphasis on knowledge rather than creativitiy.

However, it was said "Koreans". So, Koreans are genetically indisposed to "lack" creativity compared to the "superior" Arian Race?



I swear, you replace all the word "Koreans" on this forum with the word "Blacks" and you would see there's racist comments left and right.

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