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Hollywoodaction
Joined: 02 Jul 2004
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 Posted: Sun Feb 19, 2006 2:33 am Post subject: |
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| andrew wrote: |
| One problem I have heard from Koreans who speak English well enough to express their opinions clearly: the Rodney King riots in LA in 1992. There is a huge population of Koreans and Korean-Americans in the areas affected by the rioting and many lost their shops to fires and theft by angry blacks during this event. Koreans watched this on TV but many had direct connections because their relatives were the shop owners. This is still an issue for many Koreans, especially as regards black males. It is sad. |
I wouldn't fall for that argument. I remember watching Korean shop keepers and African American community leaders on a TV show shortly after the riots. Someone brought up that one reason they felt Korean shop keepers were racist was that they never returned change in their hand but instead placed it on the counter. The Koreans shot back that they were the racists because, they claimed, that in Korean culture it is rude to return change to a customer in their hands. I now know that was a bold-faced live. |
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Gord
Joined: 25 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Sun Feb 19, 2006 10:40 am Post subject: |
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| Hollywoodaction wrote: |
| The Koreans shot back that they were the racists because, they claimed, that in Korean culture it is rude to return change to a customer in their hands. I now know that was a bold-faced live. |
"Back in the day", that is how things were done generally. When I first arrived in Korea, I was working in Sokcho which is/was stuck in the past and most of the nicer looking shops did the whole money on the counter/in a tray thing. Most (all?) banks still do that in Korea today.
I also believe it's still the fad in Japan. |
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Cheonmunka
Joined: 04 Jun 2004
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| Posted: Sun Feb 19, 2006 3:49 pm Post subject: |
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My son (half Korean - Western) was on the train with his mother and an African American guy was on there and my son kept looking at him. He was curious.
Sometimes I too want to feel your guys' gals' skin. I love the deep color, it's very cool. Usually nice to look at.
Better than the hideous skin and expressions English housewives and chaps have. All ruddy and podgy, blemishes and wrinkly bags. |
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Hollywoodaction
Joined: 02 Jul 2004
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| Posted: Sun Feb 19, 2006 5:33 pm Post subject: |
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| Gord wrote: |
| Hollywoodaction wrote: |
| The Koreans shot back that they were the racists because, they claimed, that in Korean culture it is rude to return change to a customer in their hands. I now know that was a bold-faced live. |
"Back in the day", that is how things were done generally. When I first arrived in Korea, I was working in Sokcho which is/was stuck in the past and most of the nicer looking shops did the whole money on the counter/in a tray thing. Most (all?) banks still do that in Korea today.
I also believe it's still the fad in Japan. |
Bank and stores are two different things. I came here a couple of years after the riots and was told that in stores it is incredibly rude to exchange money any other way than from one right hand to the other. |
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