I am half Korean and my mom is devastated. She called me crying this morning. She said when she heard the murderer was Asian, she prayed he wasn’t Korean. AmericanInTokyo is absolutely 100% correct. Of course you wouldn’t understand this unless you are familiar with Asian culture. I’m only half Korean and I felt the shame. When I hear an American soldier commits a crime overseas, I feel the shame, too. When an American or Korean excels, I also feel the pride.
If you make an effort, you can understand these things, these phenomenont, though.
However it does take a little effort.
Of course it is an open forum here. This is just merely about trying to grasp that not all the people in the world think, or act as we Americans do. I was just relating the facts as I see them, as my gut tells me. You confirmed it.
Every Korean I know is in deep mourning and embarrassed shock. And they had nothing to do with it. Some wont even reply to my e mails, even though I know they are getting them. The whole mood is one of national shame it would seem, that one of their nationals would do this overseas to other people (in fact, he killed people from many different nations it seems). The scale of it is unfathomable.