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Satori
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I mean, it's only "bashing Korea" if you think having a preference for sameness is some awful sin, which I don't think it is.
I do think Koreans have a tendency to favour conformity in a lot of ways. But the OP was not a good example of this at all. Eating a limited range of foods is not really "conformity" as such. Conformity is about being the same as something else, often regarding other people, but streets or buildings can have conformity too. I would describe this guy more as an "unadventurous eater" than a "conformist eater". In fact, he sounds like a bit of an oddball... |
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Qinella
Joined: 25 Feb 2005
Location: the crib
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| So did we get a result yet? She was incorrectly extrapolating her husband's eating habits onto the general Korean population, but not bashing Korea? Something like that? Jinju playing in a completely different ballpark from the rest of us as usual? |
I think we got the standard managerie of assh*les who like to pick apart every post down to the bone. What sad, obsessive, pathetic pricks you people are. I actually feel sorry for the OP, who was just intending to casually pass on through.
And before you start crying, yes, my tongue was planted firmly in cheek with that second line. |
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tomato
Joined: 31 Jan 2003
Location: I get so little foreign language experience, I must be in Koreatown, Los Angeles.
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My director has a small recording studio.
Every year, he brings each class into the studio and has each class sing a Christmas carol.
He makes these recordings into a CD which he sells to the parents.
Last year, he held a teachers' meeting to discuss the Christmas CD.
The foreign teachers all spoke at the meeting, but the Korean teachers showed no interest at all.
For them, apparently, it felt more secure and comfortable to continue plodding through the textbooks. |
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Satori
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| Posted: Wed Jun 14, 2006 3:56 am Post subject: |
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My director has a small recording studio.
Every year, he brings each class into the studio and has each class sing a Christmas carol.
He makes these recordings into a CD which he sells to the parents.
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At first I thought "what a brilliant DUDE", then I noticed the last sentence and thought "what a cheap prick, he should goddamn give them away as part of the service", christ in heaven knows hagwon "education" is overpriced... |
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flakfizer
Joined: 12 Nov 2004
Location: scaling the Cliffs of Insanity with a frayed rope.
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| Posted: Wed Jun 14, 2006 4:41 am Post subject: |
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| I guess what you are experiencing is no worse than Americans who can't go to Korea until they find out that YES THERE IS A BURGER KING THERE!!! I wish I had a million bucks every time an American asks me that. Also, some Koreans can't board a plane at Incheon without their HUGE boxes of ramyon. hahaha!!! |
That would be a great deal, because you'd only need to be asked by one person to become a millionaire. |
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Nowhere Man
Joined: 08 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Wed Jun 14, 2006 4:58 am Post subject: ... |
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Bottom line(s):
This thread is not about Korean "sameness"; it's about someone's husband.
Moving on from the husband, is it Korean or is it Asian?
Try teaching a reading class in Thailand where "we don't like reading".
(On the other hand, in Thailand, the spices are on the table. You spice it up to your liking.)
That "if" statement is not subjunctive.
Ultimately, the OP had no business briging things like "the couple look" into this.
That IS Korea bashing.
At the same time, suppose you went to a World Cup party and your local spouse offered you some juicy bulgogi hot off the grill.
Theory: Maybe he's just not into burgers.
Pizza is the most globally raped dish on the global menu.
Give him a plate of pickles. |
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EFLtrainer
Joined: 04 May 2005
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| Posted: Wed Jun 14, 2006 6:30 am Post subject: Re: ... |
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Bottom line(s):
This thread is not about Korean "sameness"; it's about someone's husband.
Moving on from the husband, is it Korean or is it Asian?
Try teaching a reading class in Thailand where "we don't like reading".
(On the other hand, in Thailand, the spices are on the table. You spice it up to your liking.)
That "if" statement is not subjunctive.
Ultimately, the OP had no business briging things like "the couple look" into this.
That IS Korea bashing.
At the same time, suppose you went to a World Cup party and your local spouse offered you some juicy bulgogi hot off the grill.
Theory: Maybe he's just not into burgers.
Pizza is the most globally raped dish on the global menu.
Give him a plate of pickles. |
A generalization is not automatically a bash. A bash is a criticsim, ot jsut an observation about a vexing part of your life.
Koreans are generally not as likely to fully employ inductive then deductive thinking in problem solving. Is this a bash or an observation? If I say it makes me nuts at times, does that make it a bash?
Meh... I think it goes too far saying any observation is a bash, particularly when it is legitimate. |
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Cheonmunka
Joined: 04 Jun 2004
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No, no no, your husband is one of the many with Sociotic-Dietary Immutability Psychosis.
It's when you react in a way of eating habits of sameness.
It's secure for some people to keep the same eating habits in the same eating place that they are used to and feel comfortable with.
Hey, at least he doesn't have alcoholistic tendencies.
And, he did compliment you on your home-made sauce.
The above dietary disease may not actually exist. |
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LexLibra
Joined: 09 Jun 2006
Location: in the library
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No, he's just an Aspie. Classic textbook case.  |
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