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[doggyji]

What's your take on the "occidentalism" site? It's an interesting one.

http://www.occidentalism.org

I have noticed some people here use that as a trustworthy source of information. So I read through several pages. As he claims to be a white Australian, I was a bit surprised because some terms he used are exactly what anti-Korean Japanese 2-Channelers use. Then, I found he's a very very fluent Japanese speaker who may surf the Japanese internet quite a lot. Those with enormous historical knowledge about East Asia or Korea/Japan relations and superb language abilities, what do you think about the site? Of course, obviously that site is full of his personal agendas when it comes to the subject selection. But what about the basic facts in general? Does it seem he ever omits or selects things that only serve his pre-determined purpose? Just curious what some of you knowledgable guys think. I'm far from being a Korean history expert. I'm actually against the idea of the Korean governmental organization making a single history textbook for all high school students.

The author guy seems to be trying to be (seen) objective and one second later he's living in a little fantasy world. This one is quite funny. They are having their own Korea-bashing festival on the comments for such a nonsense. "ooga ooga, Koreans are at it again."

http://www.occidentalism.org/?p=420#comments

Anyeone can go out and ask 1000 Koreans.

"Is Confucius Chinese? Isn't he Korean actually?"

I guarantee you 999 or 1000 will give you "WTF? " I tried hard but couldn't find any source that any single Korean claims so. Oh yeah, here's one article by a Chinese professor here who says it started from the false report by some Chinese media. Korea claims the whole Chinese letters and Chinese medicine as their own? Letters? Anything that has any little to do was those printing types. Chinese medicine? It was one Korean medicine book "동의보감" as a record that was published 400 years ago. This is what exactly they do. Word play and subtle misleading. Maybe some people just believe the whole thing without any doubt as it's just anti-Korean and it just gives them enormous orgasm. Especially those who live in their own small world and don't have any real chance to interact with many sane Koreans.

http://news.naver.com/news/read.php?mode=LSD&office_id=021&article_id=0000169399&section_id=110&menu_id=110

Now on that occidentalism page, even watch that yellow Japanese TV show based on these fake things that didn't even exist. It's a dizzy world full of bandwagons. The author might have thought this topic fits his agenda and picked it. He might be right in many things he claims but I personally sense his site is quite a biased one with a good appearance.

[ajgeddes]

[jaganath69]

I used to read it for a bit of a giggle, but some of the Japanese right wing nationalist stuff he sources to justify his mainly anti-Korean bias is just beyond the pale.

[doggyji]

[ajgeddes]

[doggyji]

[ajgeddes]

[Zolt]

I had a quick look at his site and the series he did on Dokdo was serious and well documented, although the interpretations are a bit biased.

The rest looks more like random stuff picked off the airwaves or the net. The "confucius is korean" thing is just a goofy japanese program for the negative IQ's. I can imagine some inebriated korean taxi driver, anti FTA protester or conecerned netizen spewing that shit, but your average korean would just go WTF??

If the koreans picked up all the stuff japanese right-wingers spew all the time, we'd be having a bloodbath. I was in japan just last week and they must have been having some kind of rally in Osaka, there were those black vans spewing nationalist propaganda all over the place. A chilling sight really.

[jaganath69]

[Captain Corea]

[shakuhachi]

Hi doggyji, I am the guy from Occidentalism. I do not pretend to be objective, although I would like to be one day. That would be transcending human existence, probably.

[doggyji]

Thank you for responding here. I should've known it was you.

[Guri Guy]

The website is good I think. Usually it hosts good discussions and it is generally informative. It is also extremely entertaining at times.
The articles on Dokdo/Takeshima were excellent. I certainly learned a lot. I hope Gerry Beavers publishes a book.

I don't find it to be terribly biased. I am sure it is much better than the Nazizens that lurk on Naver and Yahoo Korea.

[ed4444]

Its a good site to read for a laugh at what the Japanese right wingers are spinning from week to week for non Japanese readers.

Here is a post that shows where the source material comes from:

http://populargusts.blogspot.com/2006/11/contribution-of-misattributed-photos.html

[jaganath69]