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Homer
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 Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2004 1:53 am Post subject: People you meet here...a poll |
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Another question.
In my time here I have met quite a few fellow waeguks.
Some of them I have become close friends with and would have done so anywhere.
Many others I became aquainted with here but probably would not have done so back home.
This seems to be due to the rarity factor. Being a foreigner abroad in a country where there are relatively few foreigners tends to limit the pool of choices hence friendship out of necessity?
Does anyone else notice this? |
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lush72
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: I am Penalty Kick!
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| Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2004 2:20 am Post subject: Re: People you meet here...a poll |
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| Homer wrote: |
Another question.
In my time here I have met quite a few fellow waeguks.
Some of them I have become close friends with and would have done so anywhere.
Many others I became aquainted with here but probably would not have done so back home.
This seems to be due to the rarity factor. Being a foreigner abroad in a country where there are relatively few foreigners tends to limit the pool of choices hence friendship out of necessity?
Does anyone else notice this? |
I would be surprised if anyone else does not notice this Homer!
True- true indeed! |
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Homer
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| Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2004 3:30 am Post subject: |
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Thanks for the thoughful response Lush... 
you are a scholar and a philosopher... |
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lush72
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| Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2004 3:32 am Post subject: |
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| Homer wrote: |
Thanks for the thoughful response Lush...
you are a scholar and a philosopher... |
Believe me when I tell you this Homer, I feel exactly the same way about you guy! 
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Juggertha
Joined: 27 May 2003
Location: Anyang, Korea
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I've met all kinds. Some i've found to be more than decent.. we just didn't have anything in common. Others were just plain weird.
Personally I only have a few waegook friends. |
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kiwiboy_nz_99
Joined: 05 Jul 2003
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| Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2004 5:18 am Post subject: |
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| I don't hang out with people I wouldn't hang out with back home. So I have a small group of friends, but they're good, and I wouldn't have it any other way ... |
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wylde
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| Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2004 5:48 am Post subject: |
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| kiwiboy_nz_99 wrote: |
| I don't hang out with people I wouldn't hang out with back home. So I have a small group of friends, but they're good, and I wouldn't have it any other way ... |
same.. i have hardly any foreign friends here... met a zillion but didn't click.. i won't be friend of convenience... |
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~PRC~
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| Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2004 7:11 am Post subject: |
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| kiwiboy_nz_99 wrote: |
| I don't hang out with people I wouldn't hang out with back home. |
Agree... I would rather have a small group of like minded individuals as my mates...  |
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TheUrbanMyth
Joined: 28 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2004 8:23 am Post subject: Re: People you meet here...a poll |
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| Homer wrote: |
Another question.
. Being a foreigner abroad in a country where there are relatively few foreigners tends to limit the pool of choices hence friendship out of necessity?
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How does it limit the pool of choices? There are a lot of Koreans. Most of my friends are Korean. Maybe you meant "the pool of choices among foreigners"?
In that case I go with the above posters. I only hang out with people I would hang out with back home. |
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Homer
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| Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2004 10:41 am Post subject: |
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Excellent point about convenience friends. I did not mean to imply that I did this, I was just curious.
I also pick my friends carefully. However there is a difference between an aquaintance and a friend (in my book anyway!). |
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Crois
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| Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2004 2:03 pm Post subject: |
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| Got a lot more foreign friends than Koreans. |
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Mr. Pink
Joined: 21 Oct 2003
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| Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2004 2:05 pm Post subject: |
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I think this is true...so I really only have a few good friends.
Sometimes I wish I had more, but ppl tend to leave, and location is another thing.
I live far from a few people I know and might be better aquanted with... |
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Butterfly
Joined: 02 Mar 2003
Location: Kuwait
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| Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2004 4:11 pm Post subject: Re: People you meet here...a poll |
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| Homer wrote: |
Another question.
In my time here I have met quite a few fellow waeguks.
Some of them I have become close friends with and would have done so anywhere.
Many others I became aquainted with here but probably would not have done so back home.
This seems to be due to the rarity factor. Being a foreigner abroad in a country where there are relatively few foreigners tends to limit the pool of choices hence friendship out of necessity?
Does anyone else notice this? |
Yes but there are many similarities between us. We came here, we mostly dig Asia, we like travelling, we are often journeymen in the same p*ssant EFL industry. I think yes, the pool is smaller, but many from within that pool are more similar to us than the everyday person we meet back home. I got a lot of friends here and a lot of friends back home too, it's just different.
I used to befriend people from necessity when I first got here, but as time went on I became more picky and now have some really cool friends.
The trouble is there is a small minority of real barstard selfish greedy racist and ignorant loser foreigners here, that make us all scared to trust people. I take that chance and have been disappointed a couple of times, but have made some good friends too. |
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just because
Joined: 01 Aug 2003
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| Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2004 6:02 pm Post subject: |
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Yes,
I have made 2 groups of friends here.
Both ones I would have been friends with anywhere in the world.
The other I term convenience frindships. They are basically good people who you can have a beer with once in a while and talk but outside of here they wouldn't be someone i would hang with. However, these can occur anywhere.
I have found most of my convenient friends to be Canadian, good people but they talk about ice hockey too much. |
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Eazy_E
Joined: 30 Oct 2003
Location: British Columbia, Canada
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| Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2004 6:59 pm Post subject: |
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Sometimes I ask myself whether I would have ended up being friendly with the foreign people I spend time with here. In the end, it doesn't really matter because I seem to enjoy myself with them regardless of the circumstances. They're friendly types with a few odd quirks, but don't we all have those.
I wish it was possible to meet more Korean friends, the genuine types who don't just want to use you for a status symbol and/or English practice. I've met a few but it's always the language barrier that gets in the way....  |
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