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Ya-ta Boy
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 Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2005 6:14 pm Post subject: How much time do Koreans spend... |
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thinking about foreigners in general and ESLers in particular?
A comment was made on the 'bad boys, bad boys' thread that triggered my thinking.
On an average day how much time does the average Mr./Ms Kim spend thinking about foreigners in general and ESLers in particular?
For foreigners in general, I'd say it is under 26 seconds a day.
For ESLers, I'd say it's down around 3 seconds a day or less unless he/she or the kid has a foreign teacher. |
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Qinella
Joined: 25 Feb 2005
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I don't know about you guys, but the good people in my city have built a small shrine in front of my apartment door, and they pay homage at least once a week. I'm quite sure they think about me, personally, all day.
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just because
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| Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2005 8:03 pm Post subject: |
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billybrobby
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remember how a bunch of koreans were mad because oprah did an unflattering report about korea?
remember when a bunch of eslers were made because sbs did an unflattering report about the esl industry?
they suffer from the same self-important delusions.
btw, didn't that bad boys thread get that song stuck in your head?
"police man don't give me no breeeeak" damnit. |
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Yu_Bum_suk
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| A noticeable percentage of them sure do when said foreign teacher is with a K-girl, especially should he be committing some horrendous act like walking arm and arm or holding her hand. |
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sadsac
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| Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2005 8:39 pm Post subject: |
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Not even worth considering.  |
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crazylemongirl
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| Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2005 8:42 pm Post subject: |
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| how much time do koreans think about eslers? |
Zilch, nada, zip. We don't matter here, we're neither a large nor improtant group.
Perhaps a far more important question is how often foreigners think that Koreans are think about them.
The answer. About the same amount of tme people back home used to think about Korea. |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Thu Oct 27, 2005 3:13 pm Post subject: |
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but the good people in my city have built a small shrine in front of my apartment door, and they pay homage at least once a week. I'm quite sure they think about me, personally, all day.
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I used to think the same thing, then one day I took a closer look. What I took to be offerings turned out to be uncollected garbage bags. I had mistaken the aroma of old, rotting kimchi for incense. The chanting I heard was just the veggie bongo going by. The admiring looks were just the locals being amazed that someone with a nose that big didn't fall flat on his face. |
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Red
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| Posted: Thu Oct 27, 2005 9:20 pm Post subject: |
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The Korean mind in regards to foreigners:
noise, noise, noise, noise, noise, noise, noise, noise, noise, noise, noise, noise, noise, noise, noise, noise, noise, noise, noise, noise, noise, noise, noise, noise, noise, hey, a foreigner! noise, noise, noise, noise, noise, noise, noise, noise, noise, noise, noise, noise, noise, noise, noise, noise... |
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cruisemonkey
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| The admiring looks were just the locals being amazed that someone with a nose that big didn't fall flat on his face. |
 LOL... All the kids a fascinated by my nose; and the weeks I have a girls class I am constantly told how beautiful my eyes are... too bad they're in Middle School... if only they were ten years older!  |
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JongnoGuru
Joined: 25 May 2004
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| Posted: Fri Oct 28, 2005 1:57 am Post subject: Re: How much time do Koreans spend... |
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| Ya-ta Boy wrote: |
On an average day how much time does the average Mr./Ms Kim spend thinking about foreigners in general and ESLers in particular?
For foreigners in general, I'd say it is under 26 seconds a day.
For ESLers, I'd say it's down around 3 seconds a day or less unless he/she or the kid has a foreign teacher. |
Foreigners in Korea or foreigners in the abstract? I couldn't even begin to guess _how many seconds a day_. 
I wonder if the average Korean parent today can afford to completely ignore: English class in school, English hagwons, English study abroad, TOIEC or TOEFL? And to the extent they fret about such things, don't they automatically think of teachers, and don't those teachers (in their minds)have white faces? Or does that not count as "thinking about foreigners"? Can we include every hour that a Korean boy or girl sits in a classroom listening to some Big-Nose go "bookchairpartypizzachickenyum!" as "time spent thinking about foreigners"? |
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TheUrbanMyth
Joined: 28 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Fri Oct 28, 2005 2:50 am Post subject: Re: How much time do Koreans spend... |
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| JongnoGuru wrote: |
| Ya-ta Boy wrote: |
On an average day how much time does the average Mr./Ms Kim spend thinking about foreigners in general and ESLers in particular?
For foreigners in general, I'd say it is under 26 seconds a day.
For ESLers, I'd say it's down around 3 seconds a day or less unless he/she or the kid has a foreign teacher. |
Foreigners in Korea or foreigners in the abstract? I couldn't even begin to guess _how many seconds a day_.
(1) I wonder if the average Korean parent today can afford to completely ignore: English class in school, English hagwons, English study abroad, TOIEC or TOEFL? (2) And to the extent they fret about such things, don't they automatically think of teachers, and don't those teachers (in their minds)have white faces? Or does that not count as "thinking about foreigners"?(3) Can we include every hour that a Korean boy or girl sits in a classroom listening to some Big-Nose go "bookchairpartypizzachickenyum!" as "time spent thinking about foreigners"? |
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1. I wonder if the average Korea parent today can afford English study abroad. And as for the other things, those are also taught by Korean teachers.
2. Since most teachers in public schools are overwhelmingly Korean, I would think that when Koreans think of teachers, those teachers overwhemingly don't have white faces.
3. I would doubt most (a sizable majority) are thinking about the foreigner or for that matter English at all. Probably thinking about the game(s) of Starcraft that they will play once school's out. |
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helly
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| Posted: Fri Oct 28, 2005 7:13 am Post subject: |
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If they only spent 3 seconds thinking about foreign teachers per day, that gives them plenty of time for daily affirmations of "foreign teachers are bad." Repeating that to yourself once per day would send yourself a pretty powerful message.
But I doubt they do this. |
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manlyboy
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| Posted: Fri Oct 28, 2005 7:05 pm Post subject: |
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| As often as they think of monkeys in the zoo, and clowns in the circus. |
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peemil
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| Posted: Sat Oct 29, 2005 5:04 pm Post subject: |
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As often as they think of monkeys in the zoo, and clowns in the circus.
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I think about those things all the time. |
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