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[NoDolan]

Where's the outrage ? Where are the protesters ??

Babies are dying, thousands are sick.....

[pkang0202]

Korea doesn't have an FTA agreement in the works with China

the whole Crazy Cow thing wasn't about the beef. It was the Anti-FTA, Anti-GNP groups pushing their agenda.

No major political groups in Korea can use China has a way to damage the Lee Administration.

Its all political.

[PigeonFart]

precisely!

Where are the protests for Domestic Abuse, Suicide, Traffic Fatalities?

aaiiisshhhh!

[640x480]

Murder, abuse, hunger...the list goes on.

So you're wondering where the protests are for everything other than mad cow? Why doesn't the U.S. public hold some massive demonstration against the Bush admin + every other screwed up thing over there as well?

It's the same everywhere...government sucks and people are screwy

[losing_touch]

[ontheway]

[gypsyfish]

Some of my students in my Contemporary Issues class were discussing this today and basically said that the USA is held to a higher standard because it's ... the USA. They expect this crap from China, but expect the USA to be better. I can't say that all students feel that way, but these five did. Most had lived overseas and recognized the hypocracy of the the mad cow protests, too.

[diver]

Or the outrage over Chinese fishermen fishing illegally in Korean waters, then KILLING a Korean Caost Guardsman.

[JongnoGuru]

[endo]

[Typhoon]

It is just flat out racist...bottom line. A great many Koreans don't like the USA. They resent that their success has come from the support of the American gov't.

I shudder to think what would happen if over 10 000 Americans were protesting in the streets of Seoul and attacking Koreans and Korean police, or an American fishing crew killed a member of the coast guard, or an American product was endangering the lives of many Koreans, let alone all 3 things within a 4 month period. I guess that the US embassy would be stormed and burned. I don't want to think what would happen to all the westerns here in the aftermath. It is crazy that China gets a free pass for this stuff, but the USA gets a shitstorm thrown its way over nothing. Crazy, I say.

[wylies99]

Just buy some American beef at a butcher shop in Seoul and giggle and chuckle on the subway ride home.

Eating well is the best revenge.

Saving money is a good one, too.

[pkang0202]

I asked a couple Korean friends about why the calm reaction.

They said along the lines of, "Cheap, unsafe, bad good always come from China. No one is surprised about it."

So basically, if you get sick/die from a Chinese product then YOU should've known better. If you get sick/die from a U.S. product, then the U.S. shoudl've known better.

Held to a higher standard is right.

[endo]

[merkurix]