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[crazylemongirl]

Ok,
I'm going to add another staring thing. Today I'm waiting outside my school, with my new sunnies on. These adjumas come up take my sunnies off, start stroking my arms (I'm wearing a fitted t shirt) natter something in korean for a few minutes and walk off.

I don't care if you look at me but, I'm not damn rag doll.

CLG

[waterbaby]

[crazylemongirl]

WB,
Actually I've had a few instances of this happening. I don't know maybe I'm just a magnet for weird adjumas, but I think it's the freckles!

CLG

[Ryst Helmut]

I don't know what manners you were raised with, but I distinctly recall my mother and/or father whacking me in the back of the head if they caught me staring at someone...be it big knockers, a crippled person, someone that was overtly different.

I remember when I was in grade 9 and there was a man near my work with a little box tied to his head, and he kept rocking back and forth reading a book. I had no idea what in the world he was doing...caught myself staring. He saw me, I felt bad, so walked over (after he finished) and I politely asked him what he had been doing, as I had never seen. He went into grand explanation of his Faith. We had good laughs the rest of the summer.

Maybe staring is accepted here, but I try my darnedest NOT to stare, better yet, NOT GET CAUGHT staring.

Shoosh,

Ryst

[dogbert]

Do Koreans who travel overseas suffer from a sort of sensory overload when they are confronted with so many people who do not resemble them?

[Hank Scorpio]

[The Lemon]

[Trinny]

As a Korean living in overseas, I did't really notice any stare from the locals. Heck, there are already enough Asians in North America other than Koreans, and people are used to the visible minority anyway.

[sekki]

[mateomiguel]

[doggyji]

I expect I will get a lot of stares in any place where lots of people haven't seen Asians since birth except on TV. I heard this notably happens even in some part of the US. I don't know how true it is. And regardless of how many times they have seen Asians, in Italia, it has been told Asian girls get stared all the time.... by men. The hyenas.

[Natalia]

Honestly, Koreans don't stare all that much. Unless you have not travelled in Asia (or places like Africa) before, I don't know how you even notice it.

Before coming here people had prepared me for something terrible, but it really isn't that bad. I think Koreans are too reserved to really stare the way they do elsewhere.

You should try going to India. That is a truly awful experience. Places like Sri Lanka and Malaysia have a lot of 'starers' too. Here, honestly, it's nothing. Especially considering what a sheltered, one-race kind of society most Koreans live in. I think they handle seeing foreigners quite well.

[brento1138]

If someone is staring at you and making you feel uncomforable, you could always make THEM feel uncomfortable! Make eye-contact, smile. Wink at them. Make suggestive eyebrow movements. Ask them, using body language, to come towards you. Use your tongue and make sensual movements with it.

[brento1138]

[djsmnc]

I have usually worn tight pants with a bulge because I know they're going to be checking me out.