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[rapier]

[quote="jinglejangle"][Then some crazy looking old ass wino type ajushi came up and wanted to thank me for being here and shake my hand and all this. It really cheered me up. Then 30 min later I got hit with by a motorcycle on the sidewalk.
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-Thats it. You go through 100 different emotions in a day here. One moment someone is enthusiastically welcoming you to their country in oTT fashion, the next minute someone is bargeing in front of you, an old ajosshi is talking down to you, or a group of kids is shouting HELLO" at you.
Its the unpredictability, the constant, random, twingeing of your sensibilitites that eventually builds into a paranoia. Even the "positive" attention (usually overdone) becomes irritating and unwelcome after a while.
I think most of us just want to be left alone, treated no different to anyone else.

[tzechuk]

Here's my answer to your non-caucasian and wife of Korean question.

I am born Chinese (Hong Kong) and as far as Korean people are concerned, I am one of them - until I start talking! Then they realise I am not Korea, even if I speak to them in Korean. I haven't experienced any racisms whatsoever. People find me a bit of a novelty, I think... an asian looking person that speaks Korean with a strong British accent (or an accent of sort...).

They always ask me where I am from and when I tell them England, they are intrigued and want to know why I am from England etc. etc.. so I learned to explain.. and then they want to know why I am in Korea and when I tell them that I married a Korean man, I can sense a whole new different attitude - a positive one, I hasten to add. It's like they seem to be really proud that their fellow countryman could attract (or con... depends on how you look at it ) a foreign person into marrying him and staying in Korean and now having a baby. They just find the whole deal very curious, I think.

[jajdude]

They want to know why you are from England?

LOL..... just say you thought it was a good place to be born.

(foreign woman marries Korean man.... cool.... other way around.... not so cool?)

[Keepongoing]

I family came on the subway, they appeared to be an African American family as the dude had a military haircut. They had 2 small children. A young 30ish Korean mon got out of her seat, walked over to them, sit her child down and encouraged her child to play with the two children and had her child give the children some candy.

I did not see much racism in that act

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