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atwood
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 Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2014 4:46 pm Post subject: |
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| Steelrails wrote: |
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That's Your Dudeness to you, blind rabbit.
And sure I can. In fact, I just did and will do so again, right now. That you don't deny your use of hyperbole but instead want to accuse me is a Goebbels-type tactic.
And how about those false analogies? You've got this propaganda schtick down. |
How about El Duderino? I'm into the whole brevity thing. Can't you tell by my posts?
Anyways, dude. Goebbels dude. I hope for your sake you're not wholly serious and just trolling me. If you actually in all seriousness put me on the level of Goebbels, that's just pathetic and you need to see a shrink.
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| Can't it just be assumed that usually Koreans means the majority of Koreans and not literally all of them? I'd consider it pretty pedantic if one person claimed 'Koreans eat rice and kimchi for breakfast' then another poster chimed in with 'Not all Koreans do that'. It goes without saying. |
But often times what's being claimed isn't always the majority, sometimes its just a sizable minority. Sometimes, its not even accurate. Take for example your statement about "rice and kimchi", the way it is worded makes it sound like kimchi is a staple of the meal, when in reality its usually a side item, the way a banana would be. And what would our reaction be to "Westerners eat cereal for breakfast". Would we not instantly pick apart a bunch of things wrong with that statement? Wouldn't we not think it vital to include the clause of "some". Do we assume that Koreans don't mean ALL Westerners everyday?
I just find it odd that some bashers and even balanced posters, who also complain about stereotypes and generalizations about foreigners, are either frustrated by having to add "some" or have reluctantly come around to it. |
Herr SR, another false analogy. You are comparing a pluralistic society to a homogeneous one about which it is much easier to generalize.
Besides which, no one is going to be up in arms about a statement such as "Westerners eat cereal for breakfast." Lots of Westerners do. Kellogg's and General Mills and Post, not to mention cereal makers in Europe would love it if every Westerner ate cereal for breakfast and would applaud such a statement.
As for your kimchi and rice quibble, again off the mark. Lots of Asians eat rice for breakfast so the kimchi is what makes it a specifically Korean breakfast and earns its placement thus. Besides, Koreans are inordinately proud of kimchi and its real and imaginary health benefits and consider it a necessary complement to rice to balance the stomach's pH and other wondrous things.
One more thing Herr Goebbels-Lite, you're overlooking the Korean tendency to stereotype and so a Westerner might correct a statement coming from a Korean that they wouldn't from a Westerner because they know the Korean means it literally while the Westerner doesn't.
Das wird alles. Entlassen. |
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