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Sucker
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 Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2008 6:27 pm Post subject: Biracial children as fully Korean: a Korean gov initative |
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I saw a government advertisement this morning while watching the news and I wanted to bring it up here as something positive.
This advertisement consisted of a series of black and white photos with a voice over. The photos were all of a little Vietnamese-Korean boy (maybe 6 years old) doing various kid things (eating, drawing, playing soccer, studying in class, etc).
From memory, the voice over said something like:
�This child is six years old. His mother is from Vietnam. He is Korean just like you. He cannot eat rice without Kimchi. When he watches soccer, he cheers for the Korean national team. He believes that Dok-do belongs to Korea. He is Korean just like you.�
Personally, I would prefer that the government stress that people can have different tastes/opinions and still be Korean, but this advertisement is very much a step in the right direction and it made me smile while I was eating my apple-pancakes. |
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afsjesse
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| Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2008 6:30 pm Post subject: |
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| I think this is a positive thing aslo. It shows that the government is trying to show that all people, regardless of culture, are all the same. In this case their Korean, but small steps lead to big things! |
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crosbystillsstash
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| Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2008 6:31 pm Post subject: |
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yeah.........he thinks and acts like you so he's ok.
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Jane
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| Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2008 6:32 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks for this information.
How Korean, isn't it! By way of addressing differences in society, they refer to explicit symbols of conformity!
But , as you say OP, it's a step in a direction (the right one?, I don't know). |
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bassexpander
Joined: 13 Sep 2007
Location: Someplace you'd rather be.
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| Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2008 6:36 pm Post subject: |
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| I would have been more impressed with the ad if it had said, "...his father is from Vietnam, and his mother is Korean." |
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Adventurer
Joined: 28 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2008 6:37 pm Post subject: Re: Biracial children as fully Korean: a Korean gov initativ |
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| Sucker wrote: |
I saw a government advertisement this morning while watching the news and I wanted to bring it up here as something positive.
This advertisement consisted of a series of black and white photos with a voice over. The photos were all of a little Vietnamese-Korean boy (maybe 6 years old) doing various kid things (eating, drawing, playing soccer, studying in class, etc).
From memory, the voice over said something like:
�This child is six years old. His mother is from Vietnam. He is Korean just like you. He cannot eat rice without Kimchi. When he watches soccer, he cheers for the Korean national team. He believes that Dok-do belongs to Korea. He is Korean just like you.�
Personally, I would prefer that the government stress that people can have different tastes/opinions and still be Korean, but this advertisement is very much a step in the right direction and it made me smile while I was eating my apple-pancakes. |
Well, I have been saying that the government has been taking some steps in the right direction to be a little open. President Rho should have started this. This marriages have been around for a while. I am glad it's starting now. I was thinking that the government needed to do this and show people by using the media that everyone who is Korean counts. |
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flakfizer
Joined: 12 Nov 2004
Location: scaling the Cliffs of Insanity with a frayed rope.
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| Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2008 6:39 pm Post subject: |
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| Awesome. This kid has some Korean blood, likes kimchi, cheers for Korea and believes Dokdo belongs to Korea. We can't find a trace of otherness in him. We'll count him as Korean. |
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Jane
Joined: 01 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2008 6:46 pm Post subject: |
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As far as I'm concerned, they are sending the wrong message. They should be emphasizing the notion that Koreans now come in all shapes and sizes, and may not eat gimchi, or care about Dokdo, and may cheer for a team besides the Korean one. And, it is only by encouraging and accepting these differences will Korea be successful at competing globally in the 21st century.
No matter, my future half-Korean children will have the comforts of an advanced nation (meaning not Korea!) to call home. |
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Adventurer
Joined: 28 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2008 8:07 pm Post subject: |
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| Jane wrote: |
As far as I'm concerned, they are sending the wrong message. They should be emphasizing the notion that Koreans now come in all shapes and sizes, and may not eat gimchi, or care about Dokdo, and may cheer for a team besides the Korean one. And, it is only by encouraging and accepting these differences will Korea be successful at competing globally in the 21st century.
No matter, my future half-Korean children will have the comforts of an advanced nation (meaning not Korea!) to call home. |
Well, if so many Koreans were progressive then you could expect such a thing. I mean it's a great thing that the government is bothering to address the children of Korean men who have wives that are not ethnically Korean. There is always some denying of otherness in many societies. I mean Obama had to show he was all Christian, and McCain had to deny that he was an Arab. People a few years back had to show they were patriotic in the U.S. and defend their patriotic credentials.
The difference is the US has the concept of the melting pot, but in some ways there was huge pressure for people to abandon their heritage or otherness. It still exists to some extent, but not as much.
The overwhelming majority of Koreans eat kimchi and rice, and these kids have Korean fathers, so they are Korean is what the message is...
Hopefully, in some years, they will mention the children who have non-Korean fathers and Korean mothers. |
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Countrygirl
Joined: 19 Nov 2007
Location: in the classroom
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| Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2008 9:07 pm Post subject: |
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| Jane wrote: |
As far as I'm concerned, they are sending the wrong message. They should be emphasizing the notion that Koreans now come in all shapes and sizes, and may not eat gimchi, or care about Dokdo, and may cheer for a team besides the Korean one. And, it is only by encouraging and accepting these differences will Korea be successful at competing globally in the 21st century.
No matter, my future half-Korean children will have the comforts of an advanced nation (meaning not Korea!) to call home. |
Well, if so many Koreans were progressive then you could expect such a thing. I mean it's a great thing that the government is bothering to address the children of Korean men who have wives that are not ethnically Korean. There is always some denying of otherness in many societies. I mean Obama had to show he was all Christian, and McCain had to deny that he was an Arab. People a few years back had to show they were patriotic in the U.S. and defend their patriotic credentials.
The difference is the US has the concept of the melting pot, but in some ways there was huge pressure for people to abandon their heritage or otherness. It still exists to some extent, but not as much.
The overwhelming majority of Koreans eat kimchi and rice, and these kids have Korean fathers, so they are Korean is what the message is...
Hopefully, in some years, they will mention the children who have non-Korean fathers and Korean mothers. |
So true. An American who is muslim by religion would never be able to be President of America. The Korean quality of everyone being the same is glaring here, but being different from mainstream is not easy back home as well. |
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caniff
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Location: All over the map
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| Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2008 9:23 pm Post subject: Re: Biracial children as fully Korean: a Korean gov initativ |
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| Sucker wrote: |
He cannot eat rice without Kimchi. When he watches soccer, he cheers for the Korean national team. He believes that Dok-do belongs to Korea.
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If I do all that can I be Korean too? |
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Adventurer
Joined: 28 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2008 9:26 pm Post subject: Re: Biracial children as fully Korean: a Korean gov initativ |
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He cannot eat rice without Kimchi. When he watches soccer, he cheers for the Korean national team. He believes that Dok-do belongs to Korea.
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If I do all that can I be Korean too? |
Only if you can answer this: "Who is your Korean daddy?" |
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caniff
Joined: 03 Feb 2004
Location: All over the map
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| Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2008 9:31 pm Post subject: Re: Biracial children as fully Korean: a Korean gov initativ |
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He cannot eat rice without Kimchi. When he watches soccer, he cheers for the Korean national team. He believes that Dok-do belongs to Korea.
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If I do all that can I be Korean too? |
Only if you can answer this: "Who is your Korean daddy?" |
Foiled again!  |
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spyro25
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diver
Joined: 16 Jun 2003
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I've never seen a group of people so consistently screw up the most basic things. . Even when they are well- intentioned.
"Korea: Brought to you by the same people who organized the Lee Harvey Oswald prison transfer." |
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