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[Ilsanman]

If you are so adamant about NOt doing those things, you can do as you wish after he goes out to work. But it's nice to not have to fight for it.

I was told that the MIL on the woman's side can always guess the gender. She was wrong. She said boy. We have a girl.

Apparently, if you ask a child of 4 the gender of an unborn baby, the child will guess it correctly almost every time.

[Young FRANKenstein]

[Oreovictim]

[bizrandom]

If your a phan of phish, you should check out Umphrey's Mcgee, the disco biscuits, sts9, tea leaf green etc. There are a ton of good bands that are coming up that are as rightous as phish was (in the early - mid 90's)

[Newbie]

[Jizzo T. Clown]

[markhan]

[crusher_of_heads]

[venus]

I'm not looking down on Koreans, just find this thing they believe in funny.

- If you do something, make sure you do it quickly. This is actually a national proverb, or so says my school's 'ethics' teacher.

Opposite to British - If you are going to do something, take time to do it properly.

The bally bally culture does boggle my mind at times.

[SPINOZA]

If you shake your leg, you won't have any luck.

If you whistle at night, a snake will appear.

If you eat 'mi yuk gook' before an exam, you will fail.

If a man's friends allow him to pour his own alcoholic drink, his bachelor friends won't be able to get married.

If you place a spoon upside down, you won't have any luck.

If you eat nuts at the April full moon, you'll feel cool in the summer.

When you pull out a tooth, unless you throw it on the roof, you won't get any new teeth.

If your friend draws on your face while you are sleeping, your soul cannot return to your body and you will never wake up.

If a high school girl eats 3 eggs before sleeping, at 2am she will be able to see the face of her future husband in her dreams. One egg? No way. Two eggs? Get real. Four eggs? Never. But THREE eggs? Now you're talking.

You shouldn't eat out of a cracked dish or you will have bad luck.

[ronin]

Korean guys are not c()ck blockers.

[cj1976]

British man are all gentlemen, even though I'm constantly thinking of some profoundly un-gentlemanly behaviour with Korean women.

[VanIslander]

Why are Koreans so often surprised when I say I don't drink coffee?
Why are Koreans so often surprised when I say i don't like hamburgers?
Why are Koreans so often surprised when I say I like spicy food? (e.g., dangcho gimbap, gimchi dzigae, mayoon tang)
Why are Koreans so often surprised when I say there are four seasons in my home town?

It is at times like these (very common over here) that I wonder how rigid and totalizing are the generalities Korean believe.

Those of us from Western universities tend to think of generalities as applying to a percentage not a totality, as being prone to numerous exceptions.

Too often to be just fluke, I've noticed that many Koreans, even educated Koreans, expect foreigners to almost 100% adhere to the generalities they attribute to them.

I am hard pressed to find a parallel prejudice held back home toward certain foreigners.

Perhaps it's just a lack of experience with diversity that Koreans have.

[Jizzo T. Clown]

[Ilsanman]

I have heard most of these myself. Of course they are true some of the time, but untrue at least 50% of the time, if not more.

What shocks me is the sheer amount of people that believe superstitions, mainly fan death.

Some study came out recently, saying that 30% or so of Americans believe in ghsosts and UFO's. So what? 95% of Koreans (guessing from people I know) or more believe in fan death. Including educated people, doctors, scientists, etc. I bet out of that 30% of Americans, a larger portion of them are undereducated people.