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Kain067 · Joined: 21 May 2004

I don't give a damn how you sugarcoat or try to make me feel. I am a logical, argumentative person, not an emotional floosy that can't see logic unless presented to me in an attractive matter.

You are trying to make it seem like you have perfectly valid points. You are trying to make it seem like I never argue your points, only some emotional BS on the surface. That's ridiculous. I have argued your points, and directly countered them. The only way you can respond is to say I have not argued your points but just some emotional mumbo-jumbo.

Now I can clearly see where your "subtle" little hintings from the last few posts have been heading. Yes, you consider me a racist hypocrite and you hate me with the righteous fires of your hypocrite-hating soul. How stupid do you think others beside yourself are to think the "subtleties" of your hints are necessary?

Read my previous explanation of my posts. There is no generalization in there. To say there is a strong current of racism and xenophobia in Korean society is certainly not a stereotype. You think all stats are stereotypes, because they confuse stupid people to think ALL people are racist if stats lean towards many being so. To say it's surprising to continually read and experience so much of this hateful streak with little said against it, and with no existence (that I have ever heard of) of anti-racist and pro-foreigner Korean groups, is not a hypocritical generalization.

nev · Joined: 04 Jan 2004 Location: ch7t

Kain067 · Joined: 21 May 2004

signature test.

SuperFly · Joined: 09 Jul 2003 Location: In the doghouse

Here's my story. This was 1996, was with a Vietnamese friend in Ohio...we were driving home, I was almost passed out 3AM and I wake up to him yelling at some people in a car next to us. I come to my senses and I realize that while we had been stopped at the intersection, a carload of racist mfockers had taunted my friend with Asian mimicking and racist remarks.

As soon as the fockers realized he wasn't alone, they sped off and we continued on our way.

This was before I went to Korea.

I always kept that in the back of my mind when I experienced comments and such from Koreans.

It's not everyone...there are fockers in every country.

Butterfly · Joined: 02 Mar 2003 Location: Kuwait

captain kirk · Joined: 29 Jan 2003

Nev says to Kain '...especially as 59% of the people responding to this poll have had NO racist experiences'. It's 'racist assaults', the wording of the poll. I think most people define this as physical or intense, sustained verbal assault, and so that's how they voted. To respond to Kain this way is needling. I get the impression Kain is highly sensitive and easily bothered, but I appreciate his going on about things because he has something (lots) to say. It's better than a 'well, that's just the way it is' kind of matter of factness laid out in an indifferent one or two lines, unless it's about sports, drinking, women, etc.
Kain is game but don't deliberately taunt him by altering the poll question just to goad him.
He's probably punch drunk from not dropping the darkside of the 'guest treatment' then and there. Taunting foreigners is as culturally acceptable here as parking on the sidewalk Laughing

nev · Joined: 04 Jan 2004 Location: ch7t

Apologies for changing the wording of the question, it wasn't intentional.

Still, my point stands about the rampant racism claimed by some being unsupported by the poll results. "Racist assault" is very open to interpretation. For the record, I opted for "1" due to a stranger calling me "F...ing waegukin". Some might have discounted that. I imagine Kain067 included his subway experience as a racial assault too, which some too may have discounted.

That racial assaults happen in Korea is undisputed. That they are endemic and representative of the population is highly inconclusive.

chronicpride · Joined: 16 Jan 2003

Kain067 · Joined: 21 May 2004

once again...

\As*sault"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Assaulted; p. pr. & vb. n. Assaulting.] [From Assault, n.: cf. OF. assaulter, LL. assaltare.] 1. To make an assault upon, as by a sudden rush of armed men; to attack with unlawful or insulting physical violence or menaces.

Insnared, assaulted, overcome, led bound. --Milton.

2. To attack with moral means, or with a view of producing moral effects; to attack by words, arguments, or unfriendly measures; to assail; as, to assault a reputation or an administration.

chronicpride · Joined: 16 Jan 2003

What happened, specifically? (Outside of the train incident, which we'll treat as not falling in that category)

Kain067 · Joined: 21 May 2004

Ha, screw that! Nice try. I've spent 8 pages of formal trial defending one small description, forget another 16. I'll just stick to stuff that can't possibly be interpreted as anti-Korean, pro-worthlesslittleenglishteacher, by the omniscent powers that be on this board, thank you. Though seeing as they somehow managed to twist this thread against Korea, well, this may be difficult...

Maya Angelou sucks.

chronicpride · Joined: 16 Jan 2003

Kain067 · Joined: 21 May 2004

though your post was turned against itself due to terrible grammar and the joke fell completely flat, no, that is not why i hate maya angelou. maybe the same reason your joke failed, is the same reason everything she writes falls utterly flat.

Apple Scruff · Joined: 29 Oct 2003

Hey guys, I just got here. What's going on?