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[Zenpickle]

Would these make you cringe? The first is a project for our classes from an arts and crafts company.


The other is a recent homework assignment from a student. I asked her what she meant to write, and she quickly erased it. I'm hoping she meant to write something different than what I'm seeing.

[identity]

yep, koreans are racists.

[OCOKA Dude]

[Lemonade]

[Homer]

Thats just racist.

Is it widespread here...thats another debate.

[Rum Jungle]

[quote="Lemonade"]

[Homer]

He would be told "What you wrote was insensitive to others and hurt peoples feelings. You go home and think about that".

Then he would get home and the parents would call the school and raise hell because their kid got sent home for using freedom of speech.

[Lemonade]

[Satori]

[billybrobby]

There's a racing game that's been heavily advertised in Korea which is a rip-off of Kart Rider (which in turn is a rip-off of Mario Kart, but I digress). In the game there is a black character as shown below. There's actually another black character which wears a half-eaten watermelon on his head. Is it racist? Well, in the picture you can see the hitler-haircut arayan youth behind him as well as the slit-eyed, panda suit-wearing 'chinaman.' So at least there is equal-opportunity racism going around.

Frankly, I don't know what to make of it. But I know that this kind of thing would not fly in America, as far as the representation of black people goes. You probably could get away with representing asian people that way, because, after all, America is pretty ignorant about Asian people. And I guess that's what it comes down to. Ignorance.

[Paddycakes]

I wonder if a lot of Korea's anti-black racism is really their way of projecting their self-hatred on to someone else...

After all, underneath the 2 inches of white make-up, Koreans can be very dark skinned themselves...

So next time little Joon makes fun of blacks, be sure to bring a mirror to class and hold it in front of his face to remind him that he is really no different...

[Satori]

[Hater Depot]

In my experience, Koreans will freely admit that they are scared of black people. Americans often have a lot of strange ideas themselves but are relatively inhibited about voicing them.

And you can argue that for most Koreans it is just simple ignorance and not real racial malice. But whoever designs this racist stuff in Korea knows exactly what they are doing -- look at how exactly they copy the same stuff that Americans came up with. There's no way they could do that much research into a foreign culture without also finding out how hurtful it is.

[JongnoGuru]

[Hater Depot]

There were a number of Japanese in the northern colonies. Back home I have a book about this, the title of which escapes me.