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mcviking
Joined: 24 Mar 2009
Location: 'Fantastic' America
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| My favorite thing to do on my sub way commute is to make faces at adjummas I catch staring at me. One time one gave me candy. I was pumped. |
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TheUrbanMyth
Joined: 28 Jan 2003
Location: Retired
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| Posted: Tue Aug 17, 2010 4:30 pm Post subject: |
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| NYC_Gal wrote: |
| There have been missionaries and army folk for a long time. I wasn't only talking about teachers. |
There was a recent article by The Economist (it was even quoted on these forums) which said that 42% of Koreans had never knowingly spoken to a foreigner.
http://forums.eslcafe.com/korea/viewtopic.php?t=174049&highlight=Economist |
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NYC_Gal
Joined: 08 Dec 2009
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| Posted: Tue Aug 17, 2010 5:37 pm Post subject: |
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Because they avoid foreigners, for whatever reason. |
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TheUrbanMyth
Joined: 28 Jan 2003
Location: Retired
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| Posted: Tue Aug 17, 2010 5:55 pm Post subject: |
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| NYC_Gal wrote: |
Because they avoid foreigners, for whatever reason. |
Or they don't see them much...hence why they stare. |
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Julius
Joined: 27 Jul 2006
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| Posted: Tue Aug 17, 2010 6:02 pm Post subject: |
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42%. It wouldn't surprise me if that is the highest in the world bar north korea.
Explains a lot of the absurd nervousness around foreigners. Give it another 50 years and they might actually sit next to me on the subway without giving me this palpably negative vibe. |
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NYC_Gal
Joined: 08 Dec 2009
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| Posted: Tue Aug 17, 2010 6:46 pm Post subject: |
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| TheUrbanMyth wrote: |
| NYC_Gal wrote: |
Because they avoid foreigners, for whatever reason. |
Or they don't see them much...hence why they stare. |
Why don't we ask them? |
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conrad2
Joined: 05 Nov 2009
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| Posted: Wed Aug 18, 2010 3:01 am Post subject: |
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| PatrickGHBusan wrote: |
| My father-in-aw is 67 years old. In his lifetime Korea went from an agrarian country where nearly no foreigners lived to a burn out wreck after the Korean war, to abject poverty with again little to no foreigners outside of US military who by the way stayed on base most of the time back then. . |
Do you have stats that show US military stayed mostly on base back then? Because I have heard from US soldiers who lived here in the 60s and 70s that the army couldnt keep soldiers living on base because for about 15 dollars a month you could get a place off base with your own young live in maid who cooked, cleaned, and took care of that other "need". |
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djsmnc
Joined: 20 Jan 2003
Location: Dave's ESL Cafe
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| Posted: Wed Aug 18, 2010 5:52 pm Post subject: |
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| and took care of that other "need". |
Home maintenance and repair?? |
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nautilus
Joined: 26 Nov 2005
Location: Je jump, Tu jump, oui jump!
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| Posted: Thu Aug 19, 2010 5:04 am Post subject: |
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| conrad2 wrote: |
| your own young live in maid who cooked, cleaned, and took care of that other "need". |
Etiquette training for how to behave in public? |
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