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maximreality



Joined: 24 Jan 2007

PostPosted: Mon Mar 26, 2007 12:01 am    Post subject: Why always so negative? Reply with quote

Hi,

It seems that in almost every thread there are messages, which are negative towards Koreans or Korea. People dissing korea and some posts are openly racistic and giving impression that Koreans are somehow second class citizens compared to us westerners.

I'm sure you don't keep complaining about everything in your country, so why are you doing it here? And why do you tend to think the way things are done in your country of origin is automatically "the best" way? Obviously if that was true you wouldn't be here in the first place, right?

It also feels that non-teacher expats tend to complain much less so what if you teachers did the same and stopped being cry-babies.

Now that would be nice.
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Captain Corea



Joined: 28 Feb 2005
Location: Seoul

PostPosted: Mon Mar 26, 2007 12:03 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

So, are you complaining about people complaining?

At first it seems like you are honestly asking about the sentiment here.. but by the end, I think your message is clear.
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maximreality



Joined: 24 Jan 2007

PostPosted: Mon Mar 26, 2007 12:16 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Captain Corea wrote:
So, are you complaining about people complaining?

Yeah, because I think Korea deserves better.
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ChuckECheese



Joined: 20 Jul 2006

PostPosted: Mon Mar 26, 2007 12:23 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

maximreality wrote:
Captain Corea wrote:
So, are you complaining about people complaining?

Yeah, because I think Korea deserves better.


How?

Why?
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xingyiman



Joined: 12 Jan 2006

PostPosted: Mon Mar 26, 2007 12:34 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Because few people who live here have anyone to talk to so they come here and vent. Get used to it. As the PC crowd says in America "If you don't like it....don't look".
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Yu_Bum_suk



Joined: 25 Dec 2004

PostPosted: Mon Mar 26, 2007 12:50 am    Post subject: Re: Why always so negative? Reply with quote

maximreality wrote:
Hi,

It seems that in almost every thread there are messages, which are negative towards Koreans or Korea. People dissing korea and some posts are openly racistic and giving impression that Koreans are somehow second class citizens compared to us westerners.

I'm sure you don't keep complaining about everything in your country,


Yes I do.


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so why are you doing it here?


For the same reason.


Quote:
And why do you tend to think the way things are done in your country of origin is automatically "the best" way? Obviously if that was true you wouldn't be here in the first place, right?


That's for certain.
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indiercj



Joined: 30 Jan 2003
Location: Seoul

PostPosted: Mon Mar 26, 2007 12:54 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Short fuse

+ Language barrier

+ Being fresh out of college with little company type of social skills nor experience

+ Listening to people with whom they would not want to be assossiated in real life situations for hours

= Negativity!


PS. Being over mid 30s and having been in Korea for more than 3 years and still posting endless rants = loser Cool
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Roch



Joined: 24 Apr 2003
Location: Seoul

PostPosted: Mon Mar 26, 2007 12:55 am    Post subject: Re: Why always so negative? Reply with quote

Yu_Bum_suk wrote:
maximreality wrote:
Hi,

It seems that in almost every thread there are messages, which are negative towards Koreans or Korea. People dissing korea and some posts are openly racistic and giving impression that Koreans are somehow second class citizens compared to us westerners.

I'm sure you don't keep complaining about everything in your country,


Yes I do.


Quote:

so why are you doing it here?


For the same reason.


Quote:
And why do you tend to think the way things are done in your country of origin is automatically "the best" way? Obviously if that was true you wouldn't be here in the first place, right?


That's for certain.

Quote:

It also feels that non-teacher expats tend to complain much less so what if you teachers did the same and stopped being cry-babies.



Because Korea is the most ridiculous place on earth and nothing exemplifies this more than the Korean English educational system.


Illuminating yet entertaining.

Total score: 8.9/10
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Yaya



Joined: 25 Feb 2003
Location: Seoul

PostPosted: Mon Mar 26, 2007 1:00 am    Post subject: Re: Why always so negative? Reply with quote

Yu_Bum_suk wrote:
maximreality wrote:
Hi,

It seems that in almost every thread there are messages, which are negative towards Koreans or Korea. People dissing korea and some posts are openly racistic and giving impression that Koreans are somehow second class citizens compared to us westerners.

I'm sure you don't keep complaining about everything in your country,


Yes I do.


Quote:

so why are you doing it here?


For the same reason.


Quote:
And why do you tend to think the way things are done in your country of origin is automatically "the best" way? Obviously if that was true you wouldn't be here in the first place, right?


That's for certain.

Quote:

It also feels that non-teacher expats tend to complain much less so what if you teachers did the same and stopped being cry-babies.



Because Korea is the most ridiculous place on earth and nothing exemplifies this more than the Korean English educational system.


Yet you live in what you call the most ridiculous place on earth, loser (or worse, Canadian), so are you posting from the mental ward or something?
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blynch



Joined: 25 Oct 2006
Location: UCLA

PostPosted: Mon Mar 26, 2007 1:05 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

indiercj wrote:
Short fuse

+ Language barrier

+ Being fresh out of college with little company type of social skills nor experience

+ Listening to people with whom they would not want to be assossiated in real life situations for hours

= Negativity!


PS. Being over mid 30s and having been in Korea for more than 3 years and still posting endless rants = loser Cool


+ Having too much free time on their hands.

Very Happy
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Yu_Bum_suk



Joined: 25 Dec 2004

PostPosted: Mon Mar 26, 2007 1:20 am    Post subject: Re: Why always so negative? Reply with quote

Yaya wrote:
Yu_Bum_suk wrote:
maximreality wrote:
Hi,

It seems that in almost every thread there are messages, which are negative towards Koreans or Korea. People dissing korea and some posts are openly racistic and giving impression that Koreans are somehow second class citizens compared to us westerners.

I'm sure you don't keep complaining about everything in your country,


Yes I do.


Quote:

so why are you doing it here?


For the same reason.


Quote:
And why do you tend to think the way things are done in your country of origin is automatically "the best" way? Obviously if that was true you wouldn't be here in the first place, right?


That's for certain.

Quote:

It also feels that non-teacher expats tend to complain much less so what if you teachers did the same and stopped being cry-babies.



Because Korea is the most ridiculous place on earth and nothing exemplifies this more than the Korean English educational system.


Yet you live in what you call the most ridiculous place on earth, loser (or worse, Canadian), so are you posting from the mental ward or something?


It sure feels like it sometimes.
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Newbie



Joined: 07 Feb 2003

PostPosted: Mon Mar 26, 2007 1:30 am    Post subject: Re: Why always so negative? Reply with quote

maximreality wrote:
Hi,

It seems that in almost every thread there are messages, which are negative towards Koreans or Korea. People dissing korea and some posts are openly racistic and giving impression that Koreans are somehow second class citizens compared to us westerners.

I'm sure you don't keep complaining about everything in your country, so why are you doing it here? And why do you tend to think the way things are done in your country of origin is automatically "the best" way? Obviously if that was true you wouldn't be here in the first place, right?

It also feels that non-teacher expats tend to complain much less so what if you teachers did the same and stopped being cry-babies.

Now that would be nice.


Balance.

Having 24 hours of "Korea is great, Korea's so nice, no one can match our spirit", some people feel the need to come on here and get in touch with reality.
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xingyiman



Joined: 12 Jan 2006

PostPosted: Mon Mar 26, 2007 1:34 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Because Korea is the most ridiculous place on earth and nothing exemplifies this more than the Korean English educational system.


Yeah, but thats why we all still have jobs.
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Tud Ferguson



Joined: 03 Dec 2006

PostPosted: Mon Mar 26, 2007 1:36 am    Post subject: who cares Reply with quote

Ya there is a lot of complaining on here, people got there own reasons, mostly just venting as perviously stated, but who cares? You will never get people to change, just like the complainers will never get Koreans to change, you just have to accept things in the world cause 99% of the time nothing you say or do can change it. The venting let's some peole deal with it instead of going postal I know that's why I do it.
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Yu_Bum_suk



Joined: 25 Dec 2004

PostPosted: Mon Mar 26, 2007 2:04 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

xingyiman wrote:
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Because Korea is the most ridiculous place on earth and nothing exemplifies this more than the Korean English educational system.


Yeah, but thats why we all still have jobs.


And there's the irony that never ceases to amaze me. I whine and whine about the incopetency, yet were the system remotely competent they wouldn't need me.
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