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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: 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: 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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