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yingwenlaoshi
Joined: 12 Feb 2007
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 Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2008 10:48 pm Post subject: Wangta |
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Everyone in the English department went for cake and soda and I wasn't invited.
I love Korea! |
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cruisemonkey
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| Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2008 10:52 pm Post subject: |
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Awwwwww... poor baby! Take solace in the fact it was probably some horrific, green tea cake with sweet potato filling and emulsified oil 'icing'.
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yingwenlaoshi
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| Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2008 10:54 pm Post subject: |
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| cruisemonkey wrote: |
| Awwwwww... poor baby! Take solace in the fact it was probably some horrific, green tea cake with emulsified oil 'icing'. |
Well it's pretty rude. Oh well, you're as good as who you eat with. |
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cruisemonkey
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| Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2008 10:56 pm Post subject: |
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| See... you're better than them! |
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DrunkenMaster
Joined: 04 Feb 2008
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| Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2008 11:02 pm Post subject: |
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| Follow them and stare through the window with a sad look on your face. |
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Draz
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| Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2008 12:03 am Post subject: |
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| DrunkenMaster wrote: |
| Follow them and stare through the window with a sad look on your face. |
Brilliant! |
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yingwenlaoshi
Joined: 12 Feb 2007
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| Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2008 12:48 am Post subject: |
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| Draz wrote: |
| DrunkenMaster wrote: |
| Follow them and stare through the window with a sad look on your face. |
Brilliant! |
Yeah, but hindsight's 20/20. |
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jkelly80
Joined: 13 Jun 2007
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| Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2008 2:06 am Post subject: |
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| MODS!! MAKE THIS A STICKY!!! |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2008 1:55 pm Post subject: |
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| Wangttaness, like its opposite, must be earned. |
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jkelly80
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| Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2008 2:14 pm Post subject: |
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| That's right. Koreans are always rational in their interpersonal relations with foreigners. |
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Ramen
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| Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2008 4:48 pm Post subject: |
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| jkelly80 wrote: |
| That's right. Koreans are always rational in their interpersonal relations with foreigners. |
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PRagic
Joined: 24 Feb 2006
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| Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2008 4:56 pm Post subject: |
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I'm personally more comfortable when I achieve WangTa status. It frees me up from having to go on all the mandatory fun days, all the slow, twenty-people lunches followed by the stroll to an overpriced coffee shop.
If fact, I usually make it a point to do something that against the grain at a new job just so that I'll piss someone off. Run with it. Revel in it. Be WangTa and buy yourself some time. |
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Frankly Mr Shankly
Joined: 13 Feb 2008
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| Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2008 12:41 pm Post subject: |
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| "Scuse my ignorance, but what does 'wangta" mean, exactly? |
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jay-shi
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| Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2008 1:45 pm Post subject: |
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| Frankly Mr Shankly wrote: |
| "Scuse my ignorance, but what does 'wangta" mean, exactly? |
http://chinguri.co.kr/member/content.asp?number=1&page=1&code=board90
WANGTA
WANGTA is a curious word in Korea. It denotes a person who is isolated from the
group - an outcast. It has a counterpart in Japanese, "LIJIME". Both WANGTA and
LIJIME have negative connotations. Anybody branded such seems to be wearing
a scarlet letter. So who is a WANGTA? How does somebody become one? To start
off, Korean society is a tight-knit society governed by confucianism. Thus,
though it is democratic, and though it values freedom of expression, it expects
its citizens to conform to the mainstream values. Purity of race is one of these
values. Anybody who "swims against the tide" in this respect, such as a person
who intermarries a foreigner from a race so different from the Korean stock, for
instance to a Caucasian, is generally treated as a WANGTA. The offsprings may be
isolated too: often they feel left out in school, and in extreme cases, become
victims of violence by their peers. But of course, it's not a universal rule. As Korean society is becoming cosmopolitan, becoming more tolerant of
foreign culture, WANGTAs are getting rare.
But a person can bring unto himself the
label of WANGTA too, not by violating cultural norms, but by his personal
attitudes. A person, by his arrogance, can be ostracized. To be excommunicado
can be a lonely thing, and some of these WANGTAs even commit suicide out of
sheer loneliness. We hear of these tragedies in the news often .Indeed,
belonging to a group, being accepted by ones peers, meeting others expectations,
are highly valued in Korean society. |
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Fishead soup
Joined: 24 Jun 2007
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| Posted: Fri Oct 10, 2008 1:53 am Post subject: |
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In North American English it "Getting the silent treatment"
In Britain its refered to as ""being sent to coventry |
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