Korean Job Discussion Forums

[bigverne]

[Homer]

[mithridates]

I have a few questions for the op:

If I'm a white guy living in Korea and I meet an Arab Sufi on the train, should I hang out with him? Are we all just messing up with the Korean homogenous society anyway so it doesn't matter, or am I allowed to pretend that I'm back home and decide that he's interfering with my Anglo-Saxon background?

If I'm from Seoul and I meet a Korean guy who is clearly from Jeolla Nam-do, should I hang out with him? It may be insulting to my Goguryeo background to hang out with someone whose family originally comes from Baekje.

If I meet a white guy from Canada who has been in the mideast before and has become a muslim, and a black guy from Nigeria who originally was but since became Christian, which one should I hang out with?
If I post on this thread in agreement with the op, and later on the street am accosted by a Korean who thinks that Korea should be for the Koreans and that I should go home, am I allowed to get mad at him, and if so, why?

If I'm in Seoul and I see a white guy reading a book on Jihad, an Eastern European guy reading a book on Sufism, and an Arab guy reading the bible, which one should I hang out with and why? (I have to pick one)

If I'm in agreement with the op and want to 'do something about it', what would be the most practical approach to get rid of diversity? If we are to go about it by expelling immigrants, would it apply only to first-generation immigrants, particularly religious ones, ones who have been in my country under ten/twenty years, those making under a certain salary, etc. What's the best criteria, and how to remove diversity without facing an international backlash? Also, how do I explain removing immigrants from my land when my family arrived here a mere 140 years ago from Scotland?


And no, I'm not being facetious in the least. How do we answer these questions? Does the op or any of the others actually have a plan of action? I would like to hear it in detail, if possible. I'm assuming that's it's somewhere along the lines of limiting immigration from certain countries, but I'd like to hear about how much it would be limited, whether there are any exceptions, whether the ideas themselves would actually be be legally feasible, and so on.

[Ya-ta Boy]

Aren't immigrants allowed into the US and other countries because those countries need the labor force?

If farmers had to pay a decent wage to the migrant workers, wouldn't the cost of food increase enormously? There was a report a few days ago that the wages paid in the meat-packing plants has slid from $21 an hour down to $9 an hour.

Without immigration who would clean the homes of the rich?

If there is any justifiable anger on this issue, direct it to the proper target, not the poor schmuck who's trying to put food on the table for his kids.

[dulouz]

The concept of diversity sounds good. The practice is turning out really bad. The proponents have turned out to amoral. Being tolerant means not being able to say anything bad about illegal immigrants. Its not a "guy trying to put food on his table". Its about businesses lying manpower when they want more profit and less accountability. Its about a border war and a land grab. Its about Finsbury Mosque its about having to tolerate polio and TB.

Its so delightful to insist that a Utopia is right around the corner when the sun is shinning and then so important to be missing when the riot police overtime payroll bills need to be paid.

Asians bought us the wonderful dot.com boom. Then they shipped the work back home and the business failed. They took advantage of multiculturalism but didnt contribute much.

Liberals can't control their pet brown people. Do you really lose it that much or do you do it on purpose?

[R. S. Refugee]

Diversity?

Let me check with the Kansas State Board of Education on that and I'll get right back to ya.

[dulouz]

RS are you refering to Brown V Board? Desegregation is a failure. That didn't work either.

[sonofthedarkstranger]

Diversity is not an "idea" or a "concept," it is reality. You might as well get used to it.

I know, it's too bad all the different peoples of the world didn't stay in their allotted little plots of land forever, never venturing beyond the borders, never intermingling or interbreeding. Damn them. Curse the human migratory tendency.

[sonofthedarkstranger]

[R. S. Refugee]

[bucheon bum]

[bigverne]

[sonofthedarkstranger]

I was talking primarily about the world in general, and I guess the US secondarily, as the OP is American and writes about LA. I think it's pretty sad and ridiculous for a guy living in LA to not accept diveristy in LA as a basic fact of the world he lives in. If he can't handle it, he should leave.

I wasn't really talking about Europe, but since you mention it, from my perspective I don't see why people should feel threatened. Diversity doesn't bother me. Maybe it's just the way I grew up. I don't feel somehow threatened or undermined by people who don't look like me or talk like me or eat the same food or pray to the same God. Who cares? I would never tell anyone they had to "celebrate" diversity. I would however tell them to accept it.

Sure, there are pockets of the world that aren't diverse at all, and for the record I agree that Korea is the least diverse country in the world. I disagree with Homer that there are other, even less diverse places. I don't think there are.

As for Yugoslavia and Rwanda, my understanding is that neither of those situations involved "recent arrivals," the ethnic tensions there were longstanding and had deep roots.

[Paji eh Wong]

[mithridates]

Since no-one has responded to my request for more detail, I will assume that the bit about less diversity is just a bit of bewailing.

Looks like some countries have found ways to make diversity work.