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Radius
Joined: 20 Dec 2009
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 Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2011 1:00 am Post subject: SO, yesterday I saw a Foreigner... |
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Walk across the intersection while it was red and yell back at his friends to "Come on!, Let's go!" There must have been about 10 of them. Then as he gets to the other side of the street, he jumps onto one of the big upside down "U" metal things you walk under where flowers and vines are growing on , and plucks a few off to give to his Korean girlfriend. Acting like a complete drunken monkey.
Guys, have a drink or two or 5 for that matter. But don't give us all a bad name.
This wasn't in Itaewon, it was in a pretty big suburb outside of Seoul.
Other Koreans looked at each other in disbelief and started grumbling about it. I asked my girlfriend what they said and she said they said foreigners think it's "their country."
Anyway....if you're a newbie, or maybe if you're not...This isn't your country, you are a guest worker--and a teacher on top of it. ACT LIKE ONE! Something tells me they wouldn't even do this in their home countries.
Anyway, don't be like these morons.
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jlee83
Joined: 20 Sep 2010
Location: Gangnam
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| Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2011 1:05 am Post subject: |
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Foreigner or not, stupid people will be stupid anywhere. Unfortunately, you can't fix stupid..
Go to Sinchon/Hongdae on a weekend, and count how many idiots (Korean and foreign) you see. |
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Triban
Joined: 14 Jul 2009
Location: Suwon Station
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| Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2011 1:09 am Post subject: |
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| jlee83 wrote: |
Foreigner or not, stupid people will be stupid anywhere. Unfortunately, you can't fix stupid..
Go to Sinchon/Hongdae on a weekend, and count how many idiots (Korean and foreign) you see. |
^ This. I see Koreans jay walking all the time? At least the kid didn't pass out and leave a kimchi flower on the street... |
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highstreet
Joined: 13 Nov 2010
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| Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2011 1:18 am Post subject: |
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That's not really that bad imo.
The only time I've been somewhat embarassed by foreigners is when I saw three white dudes in Hongdae drinking in the street and smashing the bottles against the ground. |
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conrad2
Joined: 05 Nov 2009
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| Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2011 1:23 am Post subject: |
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| This whole notion of "you must behave in my country" is ridiculous. Does anyone really own a country? And for the record Koreans commit acts much more atrociousthan jay walking and picking flowers in "my country" . |
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northway
Joined: 05 Jul 2010
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| Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2011 1:30 am Post subject: |
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| If jaywalking and picking some flowers is the worst a foreigner ever does, I think we're doing pretty well. |
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Radius
Joined: 20 Dec 2009
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| Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2011 1:34 am Post subject: |
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| conrad2 wrote: |
| This whole notion of "you must behave in my country" is ridiculous. Does anyone really own a country? And for the record Koreans commit acts much more atrociousthan jay walking and picking flowers in "my country" . |
It wasn't just "picking flowers," It was climbing on the display like an animal screaming and making a fool of himself. And it wasn't just J-walking, it was J-walking and stopping half way through turning around to the rest of the law abiding people and yelling, "come on!" in a who-cares-about-this-place attitude. That's what it looked like.
Again, it wasn't "that" he did it, it was "how" he did it.
If a Korean did this in my country I'd look at him the same way.
And there is a certain code of ethics teachers should live by. Most of you are still 23-24 years old and haven't matured yet, I get that. But in life many times you learn by being embarrassed. That's what I'm trying to for him, and help this young man understand you don't act like a moron in public like that.
I'm amazed some of you actually condone this kind of behavior, really.
I'm no saint, but when people start making me look bad, then I start to have a problem with it. |
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northway
Joined: 05 Jul 2010
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| Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2011 1:41 am Post subject: |
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| No offense, but people who complain about breaking the law and J-walking in the same statement aren't to be taken seriously. |
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Radius
Joined: 20 Dec 2009
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| Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2011 1:55 am Post subject: |
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| northway wrote: |
| No offense, but people who complain about breaking the law and J-walking in the same statement aren't to be taken seriously. |
Ok, obviously you have trouble with reading comprehension. It wasn't THAT he J-walked, it was how he did it. He stopped, turned around and egged his friends (who stayed behind) to join him in a drunken look-at-me kind of way yelling at the top of his lungs making a fool out of himself.
northway, was this you?
I really had most problem with his monkey behavior climbing on the display, though.
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ESL Milk "Everyday
Joined: 12 Sep 2007
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| Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2011 1:57 am Post subject: Re: SO, yesterday I saw a Foreigner... |
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| Radius wrote: |
| I asked my girlfriend what they said and she said they said foreigners think it's "their country." |
Without a doubt, this part of the story makes me the angriest.
Being drunk and stupid isn't as bad as being unapologetically racist. |
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Died By Bear
Joined: 13 Jul 2010
Location: On the big lake they call Gitche Gumee
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| Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2011 2:11 am Post subject: |
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So a couple of years ago I was attending one of my mom's political science classes at university when she happened to bring up the subject of immigration. One of her students was a nurse from Korea. She apologized about fifty times to everyone in the class about all the 'Koreans that come to America and use the benefits w/out ever learning the language, and all the prostitutes at the massage parlors'. No really, she actually was apologizing. I wonder if that woman and this OP poster have anything in common.  |
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conrad2
Joined: 05 Nov 2009
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| Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2011 2:22 am Post subject: |
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| In 2007 a Korean guy killed 32 and injured many others at Virginia Tech University. I never thought wow "he must think it his country to behave that way" or '"Koreans should go back to Korea". Furthermore Korean Americans had no reason to feel individual shame over that incident. |
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Steelrails
Joined: 12 Mar 2009
Location: Earth, Solar System
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| Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2011 2:53 am Post subject: |
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| northway wrote: |
| If jaywalking and picking some flowers is the worst a foreigner ever does, I think we're doing pretty well. |
This.
Drunken idiot foreigner is a retard, but in the end harmless and just as often ends up injuring themselves for my entertainment. My only rule is if you are going to jump on a display in a "look at me attempt", I get to laugh at you when you suffer a concussion and you aren't allowed to get all uptight about it. Also if you pull any antics to a person and they blast you in the face, well you had it coming.
I can't stand people who mess with someone in that "I'm drunken wacky guy" style and then when someone socks them or throws a beer in their face they play the victim. That's a man law right there.
Now drunken violent/antagonistic guy (foreigner or Korean), those people make things not fun. Excessively loud drunks are the next worse.
But yeah on the scale of sufferings suffered at the hands of foreigners todays Koreans have nothing to complain about, in the sense of, to paraphrase Chris Rock, 1930s black folks looking at 1960s black folks and saying "ya'll got it good" |
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CentralCali
Joined: 17 May 2007
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| Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2011 3:54 am Post subject: Re: SO, yesterday I saw a Foreigner... |
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| Radius wrote: |
| I asked my girlfriend what they said and she said they said foreigners think it's "their country." |
Seems like the ones making that comment are bigots. |
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Radius
Joined: 20 Dec 2009
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| Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2011 4:18 am Post subject: Re: SO, yesterday I saw a Foreigner... |
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| CentralCali wrote: |
| Radius wrote: |
| I asked my girlfriend what they said and she said they said foreigners think it's "their country." |
Seems like the ones making that comment are bigots. |
How is this a bigoted statement? The woman was saying how these foreigner were treating Korea like their personal playground, which they were. That's how my girlfriend translated it.
This world is jacked up when everyone on here is condoning and defending this guy. You all must be pretty young, immature, or both. |
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