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Korea Fears Prejudice With Shooting Link
Breitbart.com ^ | 4/17/2007 | KWANG-TAE KIM

Posted on 04/17/2007 4:19:44 PM PDT by keats5

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KEYWORDS: korea; shooting; vatech; virginiatech
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To: keats5

I had a guy call me today about a job who is a Korean National. He sheepishly asked me if I had been watching the news (I am in VA) and was concerned that what happened would impact my thinking about his job prospects with us.

No joke.


21 posted on 04/17/2007 4:42:11 PM PDT by misterrob
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To: cynwoody

Yeah, I don’t think there will be any backlash against Koreans because of this one psycho.

Come to think of it, I don’t know why South Korea really had to apologize - the whole country can’t be blamed for this, the shooter wasn’t a spokesman for South Korea by any means.


22 posted on 04/17/2007 4:44:08 PM PDT by Baladas
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To: soycd
"Do they mean like how S Korea put tens of thousands of racist morons calling for American whitey to get out of their country after a traffic accident by an American killed a native young girl?"

That's right! They think we will behave that way because that's how they behave. Too sad.

23 posted on 04/17/2007 4:45:53 PM PDT by CremeSaver
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To: Baladas
He may have been Korean, but he was also a product of our public schools.
24 posted on 04/17/2007 5:00:48 PM PDT by ME-262 (Nancy Pelosi is known to the state of CA to render Viagra ineffective causing reproductive harm.)
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To: Baladas
To apologize as a nation is, in its very essence, an Asian thing.

These things take a little time to understand.

I would have expected this out of Korea as a group, as a government statement, within at least one day, and sure enough, it came.

Generally, on a personal level, many Americans will not even apologize for something when they are clearly wrong...it is usually followed by a stammering, "but, but, but" as an added on excuse. That translates to a national level. In Asia, on the other hand, people apologize all over the place even if they are remotely connected. Gone to extremes, self remorse over one's actions can end up as suicide.

My, a whole book could be written on the contrasts of Occidental vs. Oriental "apologies".

25 posted on 04/17/2007 5:05:14 PM PDT by AmericanInTokyo
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To: Baladas
To apologize as a nation is, in its very essence, an Asian thing.

These things take a little time to understand.

I would have expected this out of Korea as a group, as a government statement, within at least one day, and sure enough, it came.

Generally, on a personal level, many Americans will not even apologize for something when they are clearly wrong...it is usually followed by a stammering, "but, but, but" as an added on excuse. That translates to a national level. In Asia, on the other hand, people apologize all over the place even if they are remotely connected. Gone to extremes, self remorse over one's actions can end up as suicide.

My, a whole book could be written on the contrasts of Occidental vs. Oriental "apologies".

26 posted on 04/17/2007 5:05:20 PM PDT by AmericanInTokyo
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To: AmericanInTokyo

sorry, slow server


27 posted on 04/17/2007 5:05:35 PM PDT by AmericanInTokyo
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To: ME-262

I don’t think it’s fair to blame ‘public schools’ for this massacre.


28 posted on 04/17/2007 5:05:47 PM PDT by kinoxi
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To: Ieatfrijoles; Millee; carlr; Maximus of Texas; EX52D; ontap; StephenTX; wallcrawlr; Auntbee; ...
Re: I guess they think we’re all like Frank Burns.

Well, I just hope no white man... ever shoots and kills anybody!

29 posted on 04/17/2007 5:06:42 PM PDT by Bender2 (A 'Good Yankee' comes down to Texas, then goes back north. A 'Damn Yankee' stays... Damn it!)
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To: AmericanInTokyo

Your post could be taken as offensive to many. Do the Japanese even acknowledge WWII atrocities?


30 posted on 04/17/2007 5:07:53 PM PDT by kinoxi
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To: AmericanInTokyo
"To apologize as a nation is, in its very essence, an Asian thing."

I didn't read the article, but the headline sounds like a preemptive accusation of retribution rather than an apology. Hopefully, you are correct and it was simply an apology which was misinterpreted.

31 posted on 04/17/2007 5:09:11 PM PDT by cake_crumb (NO BLOOD FOR CONGRESSIONAL PORK! WAR IS POPULAR ONLY TO TERRORISTS!)
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To: keats5

Would there be talk about a backlash if it had been a Christian male?


32 posted on 04/17/2007 5:09:49 PM PDT by Leftism is Mentally Deranged
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To: Baladas
It is called, in Japanese, "menzu wo ushinau", or, as we have come to know in the West, "LOSS OF FACE".

Nearly all Koreans in the entire nation are "shamed" and have lost "national face".

This is something clearly culturally impossible in our US society, steeped in individualism, where just about every man and woman, in a sense, is an island, disconnected from the larger.

33 posted on 04/17/2007 5:10:49 PM PDT by AmericanInTokyo
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To: kinoxi

Every August ;-)


34 posted on 04/17/2007 5:14:27 PM PDT by cake_crumb (NO BLOOD FOR CONGRESSIONAL PORK! WAR IS POPULAR ONLY TO TERRORISTS!)
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To: AmericanInTokyo
We are not drones. Should I apologize for someone and something unrelated to me that happened 500 miles away? The answer is no. I think you are spinning.
35 posted on 04/17/2007 5:15:51 PM PDT by kinoxi
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To: keats5

I don’t think there will be a backlash but this incident makes me wonder about the pressure that is put on Asians to perform in school.


36 posted on 04/17/2007 5:38:01 PM PDT by demecleze
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To: AmericanInTokyo

Most of the news I’ve read said the shooter had been in America since 1992. If he was 23, that would have made him eight at the time his family left South Korea. I guess his family, both here and there, are really shamed by this if his native country is.


37 posted on 04/17/2007 5:45:34 PM PDT by Baladas
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To: keats5

I don’t have any problem with Koreans, but I still don’t trust whitey any further than I can throw him.


38 posted on 04/17/2007 5:50:55 PM PDT by Zeroisanumber (Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
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To: kinoxi
Koreans are Korean.

Americans are "Irish, Polish, Hungarian and German. My husband was Irish, German, Cherokee and French. On top of that we adopted three kids from Korea, Kazakhstan and and Vietnam" and so much more.

We simply can't wrap our heads around an entire country that speaks with one voice (a universally common language and dialect), has one race, is one ethnic group, and has one uniform culture and assumptions about the world.

You and I don't feel like we are the same as people living in Alaska or Arkansas. What they do doesn't reflect on us because we are different.

Koreans don't necessarily have the same luxury...

39 posted on 04/17/2007 5:59:24 PM PDT by null and void (To Marines, male bonding happens in Boot Camp, to Democrats, it happens at a Gay Pride parade...)
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To: null and void
They require US bases there to protect them. Nuff said.
40 posted on 04/17/2007 6:03:58 PM PDT by kinoxi
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