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bassexpander
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 Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2009 7:17 am Post subject: 50% of Rural Korean kids to be bi-racial by 2020 |
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http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/biz/2009/04/123_42911.html
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By Jane Han
Staff Reporter
It's already been a year since 26-year-old Thien moved to Gangnjin, a small farming county in South Jeolla Province, but Korean still sounds like unbearable noise to her.
With a 35-year-old jobless husband and two elderly in-laws to take care of on a suffocating budget, the Vietnamese woman is not pleased with her pursuit of the much-fantasized ``Korean Dream.''
``I don't feel like learning Korean. I'm not interested,'' Thien said through a translator, Kang Kyung-ae, who heads a support center for multicultural families in the rural town of 40,000 people.
A disappointing mix of financial hardship, language barriers and nonexistent romance has made Thien become increasingly more quiet and bitter over the past several weeks.
``I want to make a decision, whether to leave or not, before I have children,'' said the immigrant, who has a mother and two brothers at home.
Kang, who provides counseling for some 150 immigrant women, says the first one to two years is the most vulnerable period in which interracial couples either make it through or break up.
``Proper support measures need to be put in place to help the growing number of mixed marriages last,'' she said.
According to the Ministry of Food, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, nearly 50 percent of the population below age 19 in South Korea's rural regions will soon become biracial due to the quickly growing number of interracial marriages in the farming and fishing community.
A report released Thursday said that the ratio of multiracial children stood at 1.3 to 2.5 percent in 2005, but the figure is expected to rise to the 24.5 to 49 percent range by 2020.
With most rural-born Koreans wanting to move to metropolitan cities for better education and white-collar jobs, the country's farms are now becoming fast populated by offspring of mothers from Vietnam, China, the Philippines and Mongolia.
This has been a social phenomenon widely seen and discussed in recent years, but the latest report calls for more urgent measures to protect families from collapsing.
A recent survey by South Gyeongsang Province, which has one of the highest influxes of foreign brides, showed that the divorce rate of interracial couples in the region has gone up almost 30 percent in one year.
Kim Joo-ee, an official of the province's multicultural home support center, said the central and regional governments, non-profit groups and other organizations provide plenty of cultural and education programs, but lack a systematic approach that hampers efficiency.
``Decision-makers crank out programs based on their point of view instead of listening to what the families want. It's a one-way street,'' she said.
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Whistleblower
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| Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2009 8:23 am Post subject: |
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| That is shocking, only 50% of kids will have pure blood. |
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ryoga013
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| Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2009 8:49 am Post subject: |
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| Whistleblower wrote: |
| That is shocking, only 50% of kids will have pure blood. |
that's only if you were to buy the whole pure blood crap anyways |
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tacitus14
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| Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2009 9:10 am Post subject: |
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| Rural is the key word left out of the title. |
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samd
Joined: 03 Jan 2007
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| Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2009 10:13 am Post subject: |
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According to the Ministry of Food, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, nearly 50 percent of the population below age 19 in South Korea's rural regions will soon become biracial due to the quickly growing number of interracial marriages in the farming and fishing community.
A report released Thursday said that the ratio of multiracial children stood at 1.3 to 2.5 percent in 2005, but the figure is expected to rise to the 24.5 to 49 percent range by 2020. |
Misleading title anyone...
in South Korea's rural regions
24.5 to 49% range |
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ThomasR
Joined: 31 Mar 2009
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| Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2009 11:07 am Post subject: |
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Im not shocked by this. Being from California, I have seen this going on around me for years. I would argue that by 2050 pure blood will be a thing of the past. And what is pure anyway? There are a lot of negative things being said about 'mixing races' and things like that. I mean, Im a typical white breed (German, Austrian and Italian) but Im not bothered by it. Its the world we live in. The key is to not lose the cultures. Ive never been to Germany but I embrace the culture as a whole (minus about 12 years in the late 30's to mid 40's and even that I have taken a great interest in learning) and I like it.
Then again I come from a very liberal place who see's this diversity as a really good thing, so I have no idea what its like to come from a place which puts so much stake in family lines and purity. |
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ytuque
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| Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2009 12:54 pm Post subject: |
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| Do they really consider Mongolians, Chinese, and Vietnamese to be of a different race or simply don't understand the concept of race? |
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Smee
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| Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2009 12:54 pm Post subject: |
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| It's as much to do with the increase of mail-order brides as it is to do with Koreans leaving rural areas. Go to Gangjin---the county they misspelled in the first sentence---and see how many people between the ages of, say, 18 to 35 you'll meet. Not many. |
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Woden
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| Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2009 1:14 pm Post subject: |
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| ytuque wrote: |
| Do they really consider Mongolians, Chinese, and Vietnamese to be of a different race or simply don't understand the concept of race? |
What do you understand about race? I'm assuming you're implying it doesn't exist at all scientifically, as has been accepted by most social and biological scientists. |
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ytuque
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| Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2009 1:51 pm Post subject: |
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| Woden wrote: |
| ytuque wrote: |
| Do they really consider Mongolians, Chinese, and Vietnamese to be of a different race or simply don't understand the concept of race? |
What do you understand about race? I'm assuming you're implying it doesn't exist at all scientifically, as has been accepted by most social and biological scientists. |
Regardless of whether you believe there are different races or not, does anyone really consider Koreans to be of a different race than the Chinese or Mongols? |
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OiGirl
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| Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2009 2:00 pm Post subject: |
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| WIthout race, how could we have racists?! |
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bassexpander
Joined: 13 Sep 2007
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| Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2009 2:21 pm Post subject: |
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| Argh... my bad... left that out of the title by accident. I'll fix it! |
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blaseblasphemener
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| Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2009 2:31 pm Post subject: |
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| AWESOME |
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Yesterday
Joined: 15 Aug 2003
Location: Land of the Morning DongChim (Kancho)
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| Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2009 2:33 pm Post subject: |
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What has changed?
Koreans have been procreating (producing offspring with Mongolians, Chinese, Indians, Japanese for the last 1000 years+)...
Beginning with Wonjong, for approximately 80 years, Korea was a tributary ally of the Mongol Yuan Dynasty. Mongol and Korea tied with marriages as Mongol princes married Korean princesses and Korean princes married Mongol princesses. A Korean pricess (Qi Empress) became a Mongol empress of Ukhaantu Khan, her son became a Mongol Khan (Biligt� Khan of Northern Yuan). King Chungnyeol of Goryeo married a daughter of Kubilai Khan, and marriages between Mongol and Korea continued 80 years.
Everytime Korea was invaded by the Han, Mongols, Japanese, Chinese they produced offspring...
mixed races.. Whats new? |
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Cohiba
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| Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2009 2:44 pm Post subject: |
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Wait until the Itaewon-hating expat English teachers who live at the end
of the known universe in places like: Mokpo, Yosu and Koje get to
breeding. The slack-jawed yokels will REALLY start freaking out then. |
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