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billybrobby
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Kimchieluver
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This *edit man* needs therapy.
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coolsage
Joined: 28 Jan 2003
Location: The overcast afternoon of the soul
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| Posted: Fri Nov 03, 2006 2:51 am Post subject: |
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| 'Dynamic Korea.' Still 400 years behind 'Amazing Thailand.' |
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Moldy Rutabaga
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Location: Ansan, Korea
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The Hierophant
Joined: 13 Sep 2005
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Schindler's List was on TV a few nights ago. The author's mentality sounds remarkably familiar in tone...
"Goodbye Jews! Goodbye Jews! Goodbye Jews!"
"America go home! America go home! America go home!"
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Kimchieluver
Joined: 02 Mar 2005
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| Posted: Fri Nov 03, 2006 3:25 am Post subject: |
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| It is a man's name. Sorry, my bad. |
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jaganath69
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| Posted: Fri Nov 03, 2006 3:38 am Post subject: |
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| Yeah go figure. Koreans benefit from being able to immigrate to a number of developed countries and can apply for PR in around 2-5 years. Those of us here leading honest lives and contributing to the tax pool get a system of yearly visas and feck all else. Time to ask for reciprocity, I say. |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994
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| Posted: Fri Nov 03, 2006 3:49 am Post subject: |
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Those of us here leading honest lives and contributing to the tax pool get a system of yearly visas and feck all else. Time to ask for reciprocity, I say.
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Amen to that. |
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VanIslander
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!
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| Posted: Fri Nov 03, 2006 3:54 am Post subject: Re: A Project to Erase the Korean Minjok is Underway! Scary! |
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| Why does the government which wants to embrace foreigners not want to embrace Korean Minjok orphans? Although the national treasury overflows with rice that goes rotten, our government still acts stingy towards our brethren in North Korea of the same Minjok, leaving children to starve while purposefully drawing foreigners to Korea for what reason? |
Good criticisms, even if formulated like questions about hidden intent. Unfairness and incongruities are more a reflection of typical inconsistencies and incompetencies of governments in general.
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The current government wants to make the essence of the Korean Minjok disappear and create a new, solely South Korean Minjok essence. If they do it like this, is there any way we can firmly say there is a legitimate reason for unification? Actually, policies that blot out a Minjok's essence are mainly used as a means when one Minjok intends to stealing the sovereignty of a Minjok from a weaker nation. One can think of Imperial Japan's annexation of Korea as the typical example of this. You can find another example currently in China, where the Han Chinese are stealing the sovereignty of the 50 minority races by creating a (general) Chinese Minjok.
I would like to ask the readers something. What country seeks to benefit from dividing the Korean Minjok and bringing disorder to its essence? Is it not America? |
No. It's China you fool. Open your eyes. The Chinese government through its academic Northeast Project wants to rewrite history to claim North Korea someday as part of a great mythic China of the past defined multiculturally. If there's any plot under way regarding Korea's future it's from China. |
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Hanson
Joined: 20 Oct 2004
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Good job on the translating, billy.
Hmmm, I wonder how issues of "blood-mixing" would go over in North America, Europe, and OZ-NZ.
This was a surprise to me:
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| Korea is still the world's largest exporter of orphans. |
I would have thought China to be #1.
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| Did these farming village bachelors suddenly change their thinking and say they don't like Korean women and they like foreign women? |
Umm, no, the Korean ladies just don't dig poor peasants. And neither do their parents. |
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doggyji
Joined: 21 Feb 2006
Location: Toronto - Hamilton - Vineland - St. Catherines
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| Posted: Fri Nov 03, 2006 8:14 am Post subject: Re: A Project to Erase the Korean Minjok is Underway! Scary! |
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| Edit -- ah, one more thing I should make clear. The word "minjok" is notoriously hard to translate because it can mean either 'nation' or 'race' depending on how you look at it. And if you read the article, you will see that even Koreans do not agree on what it means. 28% of Koreans believe that a foreigner who has Korean nationality can be considered part of the Korean Minjok. |
One related question.
"This guy's half French and half Italian."
Does this sound legitimate? Do they say like this?
I mean, half Italian sounds ok but half French part feels a bit weird to me.
Is this only me? |
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Summer Wine
Joined: 20 Mar 2005
Location: Next to a River
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It always seems to be "intellectual" males seeing their territory as threatened by foreign men who might, Confucius forbid, hold the door open for a Korean woman.
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I am not sure I would worry too much about this. I remember about 3 years ago, I would hold the door open for a woman and within 5 seconds would feel like an automatic door opener.
Everyone would seem to pile through, not one saying anything like it was their god given right. You are in a position that if you close the door and walk through the next person seems to think you are slamming it in their face.
I went to Japan on a Visa run and I opened the door for a woman with a small child. She said Thank you as she went through the door, I almost dropped deasd from shock as I hadn't heard those words in 2 years prior to that. |
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billybrobby
Joined: 09 Dec 2004
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Grimalkin
Joined: 22 May 2005
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For me this part made it even scarier...
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| Even now the number of forefingers coming into Korea through illegal means such as hidden marriages is great. |
Seriously tho' I teach adult conversation so this kind of thing doesn't surprise me at all. The stuff I hear in class sometimes almost makes the hair stand up on the back of my neck! |
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stumptown
Joined: 11 Apr 2005
Location: Paju: Wife beating capital of Korea
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| Posted: Fri Nov 03, 2006 8:09 pm Post subject: |
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| Dude, why did you delete your post? |
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