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Died By Bear
Joined: 13 Jul 2010
Location: On the big lake they call Gitche Gumee
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 Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2015 11:30 am Post subject: |
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| DaeguNL wrote: |
not sure if anyone else read the korean article, but the teacher actually punished the student for not eating kimchi. She made the class call the student idiot (babo) 3 times.
also there is a new law in place where teachers will get immediately fired for this type of behavior. the law wasn't in place when the incident occurred, hence the 3 million won fine |
Yes I read it the first time around. The behavior didn't surprise me at all. If you really think creating laws against the behavior will actually stop it from happening to mixed race kids completely, you're wrong. Koreans will never change. Some are good, some are bad. But it's still Korea and it'll take generations of integration for change and western PC culture to actually change behavior. You and I will be long in the grave if/when that ever happens.
Even then, it won't change people's bigoted opinions. What it will do is keep them from saying out loud what they're thinking inside their minds. Just like back home. Some people will never accept mixed race unions. Or their kids. So as I said in my first post, the best way to handle those petty bigoted jackasses is to just buck up and move on. After you sue the crap out of them anyway. |
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jcd
Joined: 13 Mar 2012
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| denverdeath wrote: |
I kinda agree a bit with Died By Bear; however, I'm at the 17+yr here now, and I prefer to take no shit from the complaining Koreans, including my kids, or "halfies". I had a substitute (Korean) teacher, just yesterday, walk into my home and tell me to stow the cats (we have 2) as she didn't like cats. I pointed at the hamster in the corner and asked her about that. "I hate ALL animals!!!" Good lord. I, of course, stowed the cats, and asked her to try HARD to not look at the hamster. I wish I could've then asked her for an invite to her home for an English lesson to improve her's, or whomever's, maybe her mom's? I would then ask her to stow the stinky-ass kimchi in her fridge as I'm not too partial to it. F'in rude of the teacher, if nothing else. Definitely rude for a supposedly rewarded public school teacher. Wish I could force her st0Opid kid's face down into a delicious cheeseburger, just off the grill, for fun.
p.s. GJoeM, pretty sure private schooling is still off the books here. Seems to be in Busan anyway. We have to send our oldest kid to school if he's deadly sick for the "teacher" to make the decision as to whether he should go home or to a hospital or whatever. All has to do with the "attendance" thing in Korea. Even for a second-grader...  |
I couldn't put up with Korean' culture' in this case  What's the attendance thing? |
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GJoeM
Joined: 05 Oct 2012
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