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cdninkorea
Joined: 27 Jan 2006
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| But here in Korea, how long before a K-pop group even considers having a non-Korean member in any of their groups? |
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| As I say, they're not even ready for an ethnic minority, citizen or otherwise, in their K-pop groups. |
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Indignant rant FAIL |
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Steelrails
Joined: 12 Mar 2009
Location: Earth, Solar System
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| Posted: Wed Sep 18, 2013 4:44 pm Post subject: |
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| I wonder if Scorpion will be back and own up to this or reflect upon it and reconsider his perceptions and perhaps learn from it. Doubt it. |
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World Traveler
Joined: 29 May 2009
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| Posted: Wed Sep 18, 2013 4:58 pm Post subject: |
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| It's all about money (not cultural acceptance). Music companies find (extremely good looking) singers who are able to speak other languages (such as English, Chinese, etc.) in order to sell more records. |
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TheUrbanMyth
Joined: 28 Jan 2003
Location: Retired
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| Posted: Sun Sep 22, 2013 9:59 pm Post subject: |
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| World Traveler wrote: |
| It's all about money (not cultural acceptance). Music companies find (extremely good looking) singers who are able to speak other languages (such as English, Chinese, etc.) in order to sell more records. |
Exactly. But Scorpion seems unable to grasp the existence of this simple marking device...indeed he insists that this doesn't happen in Korea and that "pure blood" ideology triumphs over profits.  |
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drcrazy
Joined: 19 Feb 2003
Location: Pusan. Yes, that's right. Pusan NOT Busan. I ain't never been to no place called Busan
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| Posted: Sun Sep 22, 2013 10:48 pm Post subject: |
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Those people are absolute idiots. They'd probably protest if a woman of Iroquois ethnity won the pageant - not 'American' enough. And the woman was Ms. New York, as if a white person would be more representative of that city. Still, she was chosen as Ms. America, and that's progress. A black president and an Indian-American as Ms. America. Who cares? Only rednecks could be bothered by this. People with names like O'Reilly, Libovitch and Bernstein complaining that 'newcomers' are taking over America.
But here in Korea, how long before a K-pop group even considers having a non-Korean member in any of their groups? How long before even a half-Korean will be allowed in one of their beauty contests? If a Vietnamese woman (Christ, if she was even one-fifth Vietnamese) won a Korean beauty contest it wouldn't just be rednecks protesting, it would be the entire nation. It would be brought up in parliament and there'd be street protests. There are idiots back home, but there are also millions of progressive, open-minded people too. That Korea lacks. Korea can beat America at the 'redneck' game any day of the week. |
Nichkhun was born in Rancho Cucamonga, California to Thai-Chinese parents. Nichkhun has one older brother Nichan, and two younger sisters, Nichthima (Yanin) and Nachjaree (Chereen). At the age of two, he moved to Thailand with his family and studied at Dhepkanjana School and Tangpiroondham School. At the age of twelve, he studied at Wanganui Collegiate School in New Zealand for a year and a half and moved back to the United States to finish his schooling at Los Osos High School in Rancho Cucamonga, California. After high school, he was a coach at Rosemead High School for their badminton team. There, he was scouted by Park Jin-young, a K-pop singer and the producer of JYP Entertainment, at the Los Angeles Korean Music Festival.
After passing the audition hosted by JYP Entertainment, he signed a ten-year contract with the company but later re-signed for an eight-year contract, not including training, and was brought to South Korea in 2006 as a trainee, being put into a class of 24 other students. Park Jin-young informed him that he was required to learn how to sing and to dance, learn Korean and Mandarin Chinese, and to bulk up. He first appeared through MNET's Hot Blood, a program that showed the intense physical training that 13 male trainees had to go through for the opportunity to debut in either a 4-member ballad group 2AM or a 6-member dance group (originally had 7 members until the leader Jay Park left the group) 2PM under JYP Entertainment.[2] |
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matthagwon
Joined: 28 Sep 2013
Location: Japan lite
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Koreans see an English clothing item and buy it just cause. The number of racist and down right hilarious English phrases I've seen on shirts and hats is endless. Some Canadian shirts in Korea made me break out laughing because they basically make other countries look stupid and Koreans wear them.
So redneck is nothing. |
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El Bandito
Joined: 07 Oct 2013
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I'm not offended by it.
Yes, I'm a new world samurai and a redneck nonetheless. |
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EZE
Joined: 05 May 2012
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| Posted: Fri Nov 15, 2013 4:44 am Post subject: |
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| Steelrails wrote: |
| I wonder if Scorpion will be back and own up to this or reflect upon it and reconsider his perceptions and perhaps learn from it. Doubt it. |
Hilarious avatar! One of the very best on Dave's yet.  |
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young_clinton
Joined: 09 Sep 2009
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| Posted: Fri Nov 15, 2013 8:53 pm Post subject: |
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| Is the term Yankee derogatory? No. Neither is Redneck. The term Redneck implies a hard working American hence the red neck. |
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optik404
Joined: 24 Jun 2008
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| Posted: Fri Nov 15, 2013 10:15 pm Post subject: |
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| young_clinton wrote: |
| Is the term Yankee derogatory? No. Neither is Redneck. The term Redneck implies a hard working American hence the red neck. |
Implies a poor hardworking American. |
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Fox
Joined: 04 Mar 2009
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Many people are, in fact, poor. Why should poverty be an insult?
That said, farm subsidies certainly ensure all red necks are not poor. Two of my cousins married red neck men who are each heir to a sizeable family farm, and they do very well for themselves. |
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optik404
Joined: 24 Jun 2008
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| Posted: Sat Nov 16, 2013 3:40 am Post subject: |
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| I don't think they are poor. Just saying that redneck was coined as a derogatory term for poor farmers. |
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Zyzyfer
Joined: 29 Jan 2003
Location: who, what, where, when, why, how?
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| Posted: Sun Nov 17, 2013 8:16 pm Post subject: |
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| El Bandito wrote: |
| Yes, I'm a new world samurai and a redneck nonetheless. |
It is the long-lost second Clutch fan! |
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Steelrails
Joined: 12 Mar 2009
Location: Earth, Solar System
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| Posted: Mon Nov 18, 2013 3:49 am Post subject: |
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| EZE wrote: |
| Steelrails wrote: |
| I wonder if Scorpion will be back and own up to this or reflect upon it and reconsider his perceptions and perhaps learn from it. Doubt it. |
Hilarious avatar! One of the very best on Dave's yet. |
You know with this site slowing down and all, it really is time for one of us to admit what an utter buffoon we are and give all the lads some yuks.
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Not much yuks here, but needs to be thrown out- Time for some DAC.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0n_HuvNKVGg |
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World Traveler
Joined: 29 May 2009
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| Posted: Mon Nov 18, 2013 4:06 am Post subject: |
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| young_clinton wrote: |
| Is the term Yankee derogatory? |
Actually. Yes. Yes it is if used by a Korean in Korea (who is speaking in the Korean language). It is a derogatory word (almost like a swear word) but only because the word has a different meaning in Korea. (Think: Konglish) If you hear the word 양키 or 양놈 coming from the mouth of a Korean, know it is a disrespectful term. |
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