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[MollyBloom]

http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2011/09/27/2011092700538.html

"When I was young, my adopted parents advised me to learn Korean or visit Seoul, the host city of the Olympics, but I didn't want to," Place recalled. "But I gradually developed an interest in Korea after visiting Jeju Island to attend a conference a few years ago. I kind of enjoy Korean films and food." He added he is "somewhat short-tempered and combative. I don't know if it's because I'm a Korean or if it's the effect of adoption."

yikes!
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[isisaredead]

this thread is going to be AWESOME.

[chrisinkorea2011]

its TOTALLY the adoption's fault! haha

actually as a mixed korean, sometimes i am quick to temper, BUT im also quick to cool down too. so its good and bad rather than someone slow to temper and angry a long time

[weso1]

I get why the adoptees, gyopos, and halfsies are angry. At least the men.

Most don't know Korean all that well. When they get here, they're expected to be like every other Korean male. So the culture shock they get is much greater than what most English teachers get. A lot of time Koreans are skiddish about talking with whites, mainly because they can't communicate all that well in English. But with an adoptee, they expect them to be just like any other Korean male and treat them that way.

Next, they want to get laid just like the rest of us. Thing is, most couldn't score well with white girls back home. Some doe, but for the most part, white girls are not generally attracted to Asian. Yes, I know some are, but most aren't.

So they get here and expect to start hooking up, but there's an issue. If she's hardcore Korean, she wants him to be hardcore Korean too. But he's not. He's mentally an American/Canadian. He can't speak Korean that well and he doesn't get a lot of the cultural things she wants from a Korean looking male.

So he tries his luck with the Koreans that date foreigners. While some of the K-girls that date foreigners do so because connect with our culture more, a lot more do it because they like how white people look. They're attracted to what's different. So those K-girls see him as mentally foreign, but he looks like all the other Korean guys that just don't get it going for them.

In the end, the adoptee gets the rough treatment from the locals for being Korean, but not being Korean enough. And, he can't get any action.

Poor guys. I'd be angry too.

[Tower of Babel]

Hmm...short-tempered and combative.. standard Parisian/French stereotype, isn't it?

[Died By Bear]

IN ON PAGE ONE (and before the lock)

[ThingsComeAround]

get ready for French to be replacing English teachers in schools

[marsavalanche]

How will the apologists spin this one?

[Draz]