Posted on 04/17/2007 4:19:44 PM PDT by keats5
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Just about every Korean I’ve ever met has been a super-devout Christian. Wonderful people, IMHO. This kid was an anomaly.
I guess they think we’re all like Frank Burns.
Who in the world is blaming the Koreans?!? The only people I’ve seen bring this up is the South Koreans themselves.
Bunch of girly-men.
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?
I guess it takes a racist to point a racist finger.
He just stared at me in horror.
Good point.
uh, yea, no more foreign exchange students... Save the slots for U.S. students...
Well, it certainly doesn’t affect my perception of Koreans. Now, if they sent 12 million of the same kind of Koreans over from our southern border doing the same thing .... well, that would be different.
They’ll say Cho’s mother was Japanese. That will clear everything up.
Every asian I’ve met has been a really nice person. My RA is Korean and amazing, one of my close friends is Chinese (but she thinks she’s japanese), as well as my roommate, who is the sweetest, most adorable loveable person I’ve met. My future roommate, who I’ve randomly met already, is about half asian, and awesome. And I’ve met quite a few more asians through my school’s anime club (you’re allowed to make fun of me for that), and they’re one of the nicest, politest groups of people I know. I think they’ve got way too much of a good image going on with most people for this one incident to cause racism.
Indeed, they don’t have to worry. Koreans are among our finest citizens. Recall this story -—
World Cup Fever Hits Koreatown
L.A. is not a morning town. When we’re driving around before 4 AM, we don’t see many people.
That’s why it was so unusual to see a big crowd in Koreatown long before sunrise. Several thousand people had gathered at the corner of Normandie and Olympic.
They all wore red, the color of the South Korean World Cup soccer team. And they came to watch the game against the African nation of Togo. Some had Korean flags painted on their faces.
The crowd was mostly college students, but there were also older folks and children.
Glenn Han is from Glendale, and he wore a red bandanna around his head. “This is something that brings in people from all over Southern California that have some Korean descent, some pride to show,” he told me.
The game was supposed to be shown on a massive TV screen beginning at 6 AM. But there were technical problems. For the first 20 minutes, the screen was dark. We offered to give a feed of the game from our KTLA microwave truck so that the crowd could watch. Finally, the equipment glitch was fixed, and they put the game on. Unbelievably, during that whole time, the fans sat politely and DID NOT complain at all.
Later they screamed as South Korea came from behind to win, 2-1.
Then, afterwards, the most amazing sight: the fans cleaned up all the trash on the street before they left.
Not necessary. I know of nobody by that name, to he doesn't need to fear prejudice from me. Anyone else?
Seriously, this was written only because Muslims have had modest success with their whining screeds about cringing in terror from the mean old white folks who think Muslims are behind most terrorist attacks. It's BS and not worth reading and CERTAINLY not worthy of causing any of us to sport a metaphorical "We Feel Your Victimization" or "Sorry I'm not Korean" badge.
If Korea had attacked us, they could expect us to be prejudiced against them.
Americans are generally able to sort out the difference between one man and one country as far as culpability.
Facts are stubborn things. The shooter was Korean. Omitting that from the news reports doesn’t change anything, neither will it bring back the dead or heal the wounded.
One news article from Asian journalists said they objected to the Korean shooter being referred to as Asian. Well, let me tell them something. If the race of the shooter is omitted from a news story these days, everyone assumes the perp is Caucasian. Think about it. And where is the fairness in that?
Highly doubtful. The only examples of anti-Korean violence in this country that come to mind involved grocers. In 1992. In South Central Los Angeles.
I am now prejudiced against Korean gun-wielding homicidal maniacs with cryptic Ismail messages written on their arms.
Yep.
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