Posted on 06/12/2007 10:14:52 AM PDT by Ptarmigan
"Might be?" The author should try living in the real world.
I'm white. I lived in Asia (including Korea) for 15 years.
Wanna compare notes on racism?
White folk fault PING
Most Americans can’t tell Korean from Chinese from Japanese. This article doesn’t make sense. I haven’t seen any backlash towards Koreans.
No surprise,
One bad apple don't spoil the whole bunch.
Keep smiling,
Philip.
Oh, there is a lot of racism in South Korea. It never ceases to amaze me. If you are not “pure”, you’re looked down upon as a second class citizen. I am sure this was not the case thousands of years ago when Korea was the three Kingdoms, Gorguyeo, Paeckhe, and Silla. I would be all that surprised if there were White people in the Korean peninsula. I know China had White people and it is documented in literature, most likely Tocharians and Persians. Same goes with Japan in the form of Ainus.
But it MIGHT!...no, it MIGHT, really!...um...
Shoot, I can’t even tell much of a difference either. There are other Asians who mistake me for Chinese or Japanese.
Funny this artcile didn’t show up after the rioting on Rodney King’s behalf.
75% of all the buildings torched belonged to Koreans.
Racism is a different beast to patriotism IMHO
Koreans have patriotism in spades.
Good for them.
I would not be all that surprised if there were White people in the Korean peninsula.
“Same goes with Japan in the form of Ainus.”
Oh, man...nah, not gonna go there...
I hate those race hustlers who keep this racism alive. It’s them who are the reason they allow it to happen. We got our Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton.
I live in North New Jersey, I think this area has the 3rd largest Korean community and 4th largest Japanese community in North America, and since the VT tragedy I’ve never seen any discrimination, nor heard stories of discrimination from any Asians I know in the area.
Any aloof opinionist who would condescendingly troll for racist backlash after this incident is the same type of person who would call to ban an inanimate object after such an incident. Not only do they think their readers are inherent ignorant racists, they also just know that they are smarter than their readers, and therefor should be in charge of their public safety. I’ve written a variation of this response to the garbage written in the American media so many times, it’s a bore to even bring it up again.
This was a good post though, should make a good discussion.
She doesn't seem to point out any injustices that are occurring but seems to imply there might be some.
I believe she "might be" a looney left-wing moonbat liberal.
Every Korean I’ve met would have been absolutely horrified by what Cho did.
It will, especially this being posted by a Korean who is a first generation American and proud of it.
It was flat out, unadulterated, plain old down on the ranch RACISIM.
Period.
You can’t whitewash it.
If you want to give excuses for it, go ahead. But it is what it is, no matter how hard you try to deny it.
Ask Heinz Ward of the Pittsburgh Steelers. He was all gung ho to go visit his mom’s homeland.
He wasn’t so enthusiastic when he came back. Even made some snide comments about it. Just one very small example.
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