Korean Job Discussion Forums

[Homer]

Excellent post schwa.

I agree with what you said.

[Ilsanman]

You say potato, I say potato, you say cultural relativity, I call it racism.

Korea has a long way to go still. So do many countries. Mine too.

[kiwiboy_nz_99]

[sonofthedarkstranger]

Well, let's say you are a Mexican person visiting the US, or Canada, or wherever you may be from...I choose Mexicans because I am American, and there are a lot of Mexicans where I live. You can generally tell they are Mexicans at a glance and there is always a distinct chance they will speak little or no English, or if they do, with a thick Mexican accent. However, there are also Mexicans that speak English perfectly well. This, you cannot tell at a glance.

So, is it OK for cab drivers to pass them by as soon as they discern that that person hailing them down is Mexican? (Assumiong of course the reaosn has something to do with his being Mexican?)

It is the self same thing. I want to hear you apologists defend that and say it's OK to do that in my country.

And yeah...maybe that Mexican guy oughtta think about why that driver won't stop for Mexicans. After all, it only takes one vague, drunk or argumentative Mexican to sour the driver's attitude towards all of em, right?

[Len8]

Koreans are locked into their own thing. The country is supposed to be homogenious, and conservative, and as such not open to change. By change I mean accepting other foreign cultures on equal civilized terms. They will always treat people from other South east Asian countries as slightly less than human, and the White Anglo Saxon race with suspicion.

[Medic]

Korean culture is called a low risk high avoidance culture in the sense that it doesn't easily accept great dramatic changes to the accepted way of doing things. It's therefore quite conservative, and doesn't take too kindly to anything that might rock the status quo.

Korea also has one of the highest number of online stock traders, and most of them are day traders. Very few are willing to invest for long periods of time that would normaly require taking bigger risks.

This also explains why Korea isn't foreigener friendly. Korean people aren't willing to accept the changes that they must make in their behaiour on meeting a foreigner. Changes such as using different greeeting customs, or having to address someone in another language are things that they just aren't willing to do. It's too traumatic for them to make the adjustment to be accomodating. They therefore reject what is causing them their conflict.

[Ilsanman]

So you are saying, they want to stop staring at me, and checking out my parts in the bathroom, but that would involve changing their culture, so they don't?

[Homer]

No Ilsanman,

They probably just stare at you because you are different...then again you might be the next Long Don Silver of Asia...

[Len8]

So to get over their trauma of having to interact with foreigners, Koreans need some serious prychological counselling.

Either that or the media and government have to stop harping on the purity of their race and it's homogeneity, and down play it a little. The media play it up too much, and do so to try and counteract the influence of foreign ideas, cug op

[kangnamdragon]

Cultural relativity relates to customs and habits, not moral teaching or truth. Racism would be morally wrong and cannot be attributed to "cultural relativitiy"