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Women Married to Foreigners Wage Fight Against Prejudice
"... many Koreans at home and abroad look down on us only because we did not marry Koreans. Even worse, many Koreans who still only accept and believe in the idea of a racially homogenous nation have strong prejudice against biracial people," Song said. She called for the Korean government to adopt anti-discrimination laws that will specifically forbid all acts of discrimination toward Koreans married to non-Koreans and mixed-blood people in Korea.
By Chung Ah-young, Korea Times (October 17, 2005)
http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/nation/200510/kt2005101718264011990.htm

[VanIslander]

Don't even buy the premise of the issue, as it's being framed.

Koreans have no "pure blood" or single race.

They have been shagged by the Japanese, Chinese and Mongolians for a loooong time, though those Asian influences blend into Korean culture and are ignored as hidden or irrelevant. But add a Russian or other Caucasian traits and it becomes no longer impossible to deny an outside heritage.

The Chinese are just as unwelcome in Korea as the Japanese, unless they are able to hide their ancestry and assimilate completely into the Korean culture.

So, the concept of "bi-racial" is loaded on one side of the issue, and ought to be avoided, undermined, for it's patent nonsense when equated with the Korean-non-Korean divide in xenophobic, insular nationalistic thinking.

[betchay]

interesting read...

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Korean memorial to Indian princess

In the northern Indian city of Ayodhya, a visiting Korean delegation has inaugurated a memorial to their royal ancestor, Queen Huh.

More than a-hundred historians and government representatives, including the North Korean ambassador to India, unveiled the memorial on the west bank of the River Saryu.

Korean historians believe that Queen Huh was a princess of an ancient kingdom in Ayodhya.

She went to Korea some two-thousand years ago and started the Karak dynasty by marrying a local king, Suro.

Today, the historians say, Queen Huh's descendants number more than six-million, including the South Korean president - Kim Dae Jung. But a senior official in Ayodhya told the BBC that no information was available about Queen Huh in Indian history.

Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/1205728.stm

[djsmnc]

[djsmnc]

"Can you tell us anything about Queen Huh?"

"Huh?"

"Huh"

"Huh..."

"Huh?"

"Huh"

"Huh!!!"

"Huh?!?!?!"

"Queen Huh!"

"Sphincter say huh?"

"Huh!"

"Ah...Indian people don't know about any Queen Huh in history"



Sorry, lost myself there.

[travel zen]

Pure? There is only pure Human....so far....