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thepeel
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Red

Joined: 05 Jul 2004
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Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2005 7:48 am Post subject: |
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| poetry = crap |
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Bo Peabody
Joined: 25 Aug 2005
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Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2005 11:26 am Post subject: |
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That was awful.
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uberscheisse
Joined: 02 Dec 2003 Location: japan is better than korea.
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Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2005 4:54 pm Post subject: |
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| booooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooorrrrrrrrrrrring. |
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periwinkle
Joined: 08 Feb 2003
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Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2005 6:15 pm Post subject: |
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Nobody liked it? I thought it was cool. Their timing was awesome, and I really liked the rhythms and cadences. I liked the part about, "Am I your personal translator?" I'd be irritated, too, if someone asked me to translate a personal conversation I was having with my sister. All up in my business... I'd tell them to step, too. And all that, "Ni hao ma, I love you, China doll?" That's like the, "Hello, how much, are you Russian?" questions that us white girls get all the time. I should make the white girl in Korea version of that jam. Grrl power!!  |
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komtengi

Joined: 30 Sep 2003 Location: Slummin it up in Haebangchon
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Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2005 7:20 pm Post subject: |
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| pretty ordinary... my asian knowledge is better than theres, my Korean is better than the ugly one... whats her beef?? damn i hate this poetry crap, all it is, is acappella rap. I prefer mine with beats thanks... plus Russel Simmons is a knob. I hate him with a passion, he's not furthering a culture hes oestrecising it |
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nrvs

Joined: 30 Jun 2004 Location: standing upright on a curve
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Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2005 8:00 pm Post subject: |
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| I dunno, if you grew up under her circumstances, you might have gone through a long ride to find your identity. White folk back home can be pretty harsh on Asians without realizing it. |
I totally agree. I knew when I clicked on this thread that there'd be post after post of white guys making a show of being dismissive.
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| my asian knowledge is better than theres, my Korean is better than the ugly one... whats her beef?? |
I don't think their point is to express language ability or "Asian knowledge" as if it's some kind of contest. In fact, I don't think they're addressing Asia-the-continent at all. They're focusing on their experience of being Asian -- Asian women -- in Western society. What they have to say makes most white guys on Dave's uncomfortable. Understandably, Dave's is quick to denigrate them.
I think the "Asian-American" experience is pretty interesting. I like reading about it, and I liked the interview with the half-Korean woman, even if I didn't agree with some of what she had to say. |
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billybrobby

Joined: 09 Dec 2004
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Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2005 8:32 pm Post subject: |
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it's funny, i thought of nrvs's avatar when i first heard that.
if you like american racism and sexism, you'll love korean racism and sexism.
if you like the dumb questions westerners ask koreans, you'll love the dumb questions koreans ask westerners.
regarding the poetry itself, i just think all of that stuff is so corny. makes me cringe in a sympathetic feeling of embarrassment. but that's with almost all spoken word poetry coming out of new york.
i thought the poet in the interview sounded pretty sensible. thanks for posting it. |
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Yu_Bum_suk

Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2005 10:51 pm Post subject: |
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| eamo wrote: |
They sound really....white....
I can say annyohasayo more Korean than they can... |
They sound really white-cum-pseudo-Afro-American.
Pitty they never went to high school and middle school in Korea. |
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Leslie Cheswyck

Joined: 31 May 2003 Location: University of Western Chile
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Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2005 1:40 am Post subject: |
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| nrvs wrote: |
| I don't think their point is to express language ability or "Asian knowledge" as if it's some kind of contest. In fact, I don't think they're addressing Asia-the-continent at all. |
You didn't hear them bleating about Hiroshima? Mai Lai? The Great Wall of China? Last time I looked those places were in Asia. |
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Yu_Bum_suk

Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2005 6:25 pm Post subject: |
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| Leslie Cheswyck wrote: |
| nrvs wrote: |
| I don't think their point is to express language ability or "Asian knowledge" as if it's some kind of contest. In fact, I don't think they're addressing Asia-the-continent at all. |
You didn't hear them bleating about Hiroshima? Mai Lai? The Great Wall of China? Last time I looked those places were in Asia. |
It's interesting, and a testiment to their American influence, that they see themselves so much more as 'Asian' than Korean. Real Koreans have almost no sense of Asian identity, only Korean. |
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Swiss James

Joined: 26 Nov 2003 Location: Shanghai
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Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2005 6:36 pm Post subject: |
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| that kind of talk isn't going to get those girls husbands |
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guangho

Joined: 19 Jan 2005 Location: a spot full of deception, stupidity, and public micturation and thus unfit for longterm residency
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| manlyboy wrote: |
If you want to be heard - speak up.
If you want to be seen - stand up.
If you want to be respected - shut up. |
I like. |
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seungwun

Joined: 22 May 2005
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Posted: Fri Sep 30, 2005 9:06 am Post subject: |
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| nrvs wrote: |
| I don't think their point is to express language ability or "Asian knowledge" as if it's some kind of contest. In fact, I don't think they're addressing Asia-the-continent at all. They're focusing on their experience of being Asian -- Asian women -- in Western society. |
Bingo. I totally agree. Do I like rapped poetry? No. But what they had to say is pretty interesting. It's not about who's better. It's about their Asian-American experience. Being an Asian-American myself I can totally agree. If I had a nickle for everytime a kid came up to me with stupid pseudo-karate gestures and asked me "Do you know karate?"... Is Asia, and more especifically Korea, free of racism? Heck no. The whole world is full of racism. The girls are just pointing out the fact that the Caucasians, in their native land where they are the majority, often don't realize how racist their country is as well. |
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Butterfly
Joined: 02 Mar 2003 Location: Kuwait
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Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2005 11:45 pm Post subject: |
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