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dulouz



Joined: 04 Feb 2003
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 25, 2005 11:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I have good information on this matter but I'm short on time. Back in The US, I will likely work for The Bureau of Indian Affairs in somemanner. At The BIA, we routinely consider who belongs and who doesn't. It really does work that way.
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squat toilet



Joined: 08 Mar 2005

PostPosted: Tue Apr 26, 2005 12:23 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Rock wrote:
I'm just wondering if you feel your culture is somehow undermined by your existence here? Of course most of us feel we're at odds with the Korean culture, and the Koreans, our own. But I'm referring to the memories of your upbringing, your sense of where you came from and what you've believed as a kid, your way of life, and whether you think that this will ever again be the same?


To me its a wholly personal thing absent from culture. Undermined is way too strong of a word, but I feel something kinda like this when i come into contact with koreanized westerners.

During my first year here i taught with a guy who spent every second of his free time learning korean and conversing almost entirely with Koreans. The guy studied with such intensity I always wondered what his story was. When he started wearing hanboks to work and deep bowing whenever the director walked in the room, I made a mental note never to talk to the guy again. There was something incredibly disturbing about it to me.

For me, becoming someone like this guy would be an affront to my life previous to Korea. All my amazing childhood memories, the battles I overcame, the incredible highs I experienced, all my friends who played such an integral role in my life as well as all the intangible things like beautiful summer evenings at my cottage with a girlfriend, friends weddings, playing catch with my dad on a sunny afternoon, etc etc etc...All of these things plus a million others shaped who i am and what i think about most of the time when i'm alone.

Then again, i get that same feeling whenever i come across a gyopo whigger talking jive.
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 26, 2005 2:21 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I thing there is a vast difference between adapting to a different culture and eroding what you consider your own culture.

The two things are not mutually exclusive. You can do one with the other and in fact, adapting and accepting the differences will only enrich your culture.

Trying to put up walls and fences around a culture to prevent mixing has been tried and it has failed and led to sad eposides in human history.

I have things in common with some people I meet. I associate with them regardless of creed or ethnicity. I do not think that skinc color makes association more likely or better. I think it is a personal question.

Using culture as a shield to hide racism is not very good.

Also, why is this "white" culture threatened by asian culture? Why is this culture (the "white" one) being presented as the "good" one and put in a frame where it is being eroded and debased by another inferior culture?

Different does not mean bad or inferior. It is the way things are. Finally, every culture on the planet goes through cycles where it grows in influence, peeks and then declines or merges with something else. This "white" culture is no different. That is just normal evolution.
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Alias



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PostPosted: Tue Apr 26, 2005 3:30 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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I will leave Dulouz to answer this, if he still is willing to; I also have a question of my own:

If a person, say a Waygookin, is opposed to dating a person of his own culture or race, does this make him racist - can one be racist against ones own race?

I mean I have seen many people write in no uncertain terms that they would never date a person of their own race. So, in the interest of qualifying the above statements - are they racist or are they prejudiced?


I'm not talking about his personal preference. I want to know if he feels that whites marrying/dating non-whites "taints" his culture/race?
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bignate



Joined: 30 Apr 2003
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 26, 2005 1:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Alias wrote:
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I will leave Dulouz to answer this, if he still is willing to; I also have a question of my own:

If a person, say a Waygookin, is opposed to dating a person of his own culture or race, does this make him racist - can one be racist against ones own race?

I mean I have seen many people write in no uncertain terms that they would never date a person of their own race. So, in the interest of qualifying the above statements - are they racist or are they prejudiced?


I'm not talking about his personal preference. I want to know if he feels that whites marrying/dating non-whites "taints" his culture/race?

Or if the same may be said of Koreans, many of whom feel that the increase in the number of Waygookin dating and marrying Koreans maybe tainting their culture?
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