I'm Korean.

[BoomerD]

Originally posted by: pontifex
dude, most Americans couldn't tell ANY of the Asian nationalities apart, let alone N. and S. Korean.

Well DUH, that's because there ISN'T any difference between the various "Asian (Ornamental?) nationalities"...just ask Bubba down yonder at the likker store...

Sounds like it's time to round up ALL Koreans and send them back to Ko-rea...

/me looks around ATOT suspiciously at all the Asian faces here...


I doubt there will be very much made of the shooters nationality, except to wonder why someone NOT a citizen of the USA was permitted to own a firearm...
(after all, making that illegal would certainly have stopped him from getting one...the other gun laws sure work so well...)

 

[Linflas]

Originally posted by: nweaver

Originally posted by: Linflas

Originally posted by: Deadtrees
Just like anyone else, hearing the news in the beginning has been really uncomfortable. It reminded me of that Columbine High. Incident where some of the people I knew back then were shot. Now that I hear that this rampage was done by a S. Korean, I feel sick in the stomach. That would be because I, too, happened to be S. Korean studying abroad.

I, of course, do not think the killer being Korean has anything to do with this rampage. An individual psycho is a psycho no matter what his nationality happens to be. I do not see any connection between him being psycho to nationality of his. Damn?.I?m already defending myself.

Anyway, I?m curious how this would impact views on Koreans in general. From what I know and based on my experiences, most of Americans can?t distinguish the difference between N. Korea and S. Korea. Whenever there was a N. Korea issue, I hated how I had to explain that I?m from S. Korea and the differences in between N and S Korea is so huge that it?s not even comparable. On top of that, now that this has happened, I?m just speechless.
What do you Americans think this about the killer being Korean? Beside you, what do you think how other Americans would view it?

Well?.this whole situation where I feel sorry for the dead, worrying about myself as well as other Koreans just make me sick in the stomach.

WTF? The only difference between a North and South Korean is a political boundry drawn on a map. I doubt anyone in the world can tell the difference other than a Korean and them only after conversing with the person.

Someone beat you with the stupid stick? N. Korea is communist, repressed, etc. S. Korea is a modernized country, with lots of freedoms. It's like saying East & West Germany during the cold war were the same.

Read much? Place a North and South Korean in a room and tell me which is which without talking to them. Show me where I said the 2 countries were the same? Perhaps you and the OP were the ones beaten with a stupid stick. Most Americans understand very well the differences between the 2 countries political systems etc. I took the OPs original post to mean that Americans could not tell the difference between a Korean from NK and a Korean from SK and that is what I was addressing.

To the point of his original post however I doubt there will be any backlash against Koreans or Asians in general due to this incident. There is no history of Asians committing terrorist acts in the US or in the world generally.

 

[Greenman]

Originally posted by: bennylong
Everyone at work is scared to talk to me today. And I'm chinese! When I was watching the news, I was thinking "Don't let it be an asian guy, don't let it be an asian guy. Let it be another rich white spoiled kid"

Chinese, Viet, Korean, Japanese...we all looks the same to round eyes.

Yup, you all look the same, and all us white folks know that when you're at home you run around wearing one of those round pointy hats and eat dogs.

 

[ShotgunSteven]

Originally posted by: Linflas

Originally posted by: nweaver

Originally posted by: Linflas

Originally posted by: Deadtrees
Just like anyone else, hearing the news in the beginning has been really uncomfortable. It reminded me of that Columbine High. Incident where some of the people I knew back then were shot. Now that I hear that this rampage was done by a S. Korean, I feel sick in the stomach. That would be because I, too, happened to be S. Korean studying abroad.

I, of course, do not think the killer being Korean has anything to do with this rampage. An individual psycho is a psycho no matter what his nationality happens to be. I do not see any connection between him being psycho to nationality of his. Damn?.I?m already defending myself.

Anyway, I?m curious how this would impact views on Koreans in general. From what I know and based on my experiences, most of Americans can?t distinguish the difference between N. Korea and S. Korea. Whenever there was a N. Korea issue, I hated how I had to explain that I?m from S. Korea and the differences in between N and S Korea is so huge that it?s not even comparable. On top of that, now that this has happened, I?m just speechless.
What do you Americans think this about the killer being Korean? Beside you, what do you think how other Americans would view it?

Well?.this whole situation where I feel sorry for the dead, worrying about myself as well as other Koreans just make me sick in the stomach.

WTF? The only difference between a North and South Korean is a political boundry drawn on a map. I doubt anyone in the world can tell the difference other than a Korean and them only after conversing with the person.

Someone beat you with the stupid stick? N. Korea is communist, repressed, etc. S. Korea is a modernized country, with lots of freedoms. It's like saying East & West Germany during the cold war were the same.

Read much? Place a North and South Korean in a room and tell me which is which without talking to them. Show me where I said the 2 countries were the same? Perhaps you and the OP were the ones beaten with a stupid stick.

The South Korean would be the one that looks like that have eaten some time in the last year.

(Before anyone has a hissyfit, that is a jab at the North Korean government, not at the Korean people.)

 

[pontifex]

Originally posted by: Greenman

Originally posted by: bennylong
Everyone at work is scared to talk to me today. And I'm chinese! When I was watching the news, I was thinking "Don't let it be an asian guy, don't let it be an asian guy. Let it be another rich white spoiled kid"

Chinese, Viet, Korean, Japanese...we all looks the same to round eyes.

Yup, you all look the same, and all us white folks know that when you're at home you run around wearing one of those round pointy hats and eat dogs.

accordign to some people here, they still eat dogs here in the US.

 

[OutHouse]

Originally posted by: chowmein

Originally posted by: J0hnny
I'm asian and I'm angry!

people at work are scared of me now ... :heart:

your username just made me hungry for some Asian today. yum yum

 

[sixone]

I'm waiting until they publish his "disturbing note."

 

[StevenYoo]

man, this guy probably just set us back like 20 years

 

[OutHouse]

Originally posted by: nweaver

Originally posted by: Linflas

Originally posted by: Deadtrees
Just like anyone else, hearing the news in the beginning has been really uncomfortable. It reminded me of that Columbine High. Incident where some of the people I knew back then were shot. Now that I hear that this rampage was done by a S. Korean, I feel sick in the stomach. That would be because I, too, happened to be S. Korean studying abroad.

I, of course, do not think the killer being Korean has anything to do with this rampage. An individual psycho is a psycho no matter what his nationality happens to be. I do not see any connection between him being psycho to nationality of his. Damn?.I?m already defending myself.

Anyway, I?m curious how this would impact views on Koreans in general. From what I know and based on my experiences, most of Americans can?t distinguish the difference between N. Korea and S. Korea. Whenever there was a N. Korea issue, I hated how I had to explain that I?m from S. Korea and the differences in between N and S Korea is so huge that it?s not even comparable. On top of that, now that this has happened, I?m just speechless.
What do you Americans think this about the killer being Korean? Beside you, what do you think how other Americans would view it?

Well?.this whole situation where I feel sorry for the dead, worrying about myself as well as other Koreans just make me sick in the stomach.

WTF? The only difference between a North and South Korean is a political boundry drawn on a map. I doubt anyone in the world can tell the difference other than a Korean and them only after conversing with the person.

Someone beat you with the stupid stick? N. Korea is communist, repressed, etc. S. Korea is a modernized country, with lots of freedoms. It's like saying East & West Germany during the cold war were the same.

if you dont know the difference between a nationality and a race then you need to stop carrying the stupid stick around.

 

[Deadtrees]

Originally posted by: Linflas

Originally posted by: nweaver

Originally posted by: Linflas

Originally posted by: Deadtrees
Just like anyone else, hearing the news in the beginning has been really uncomfortable. It reminded me of that Columbine High. Incident where some of the people I knew back then were shot. Now that I hear that this rampage was done by a S. Korean, I feel sick in the stomach. That would be because I, too, happened to be S. Korean studying abroad.

I, of course, do not think the killer being Korean has anything to do with this rampage. An individual psycho is a psycho no matter what his nationality happens to be. I do not see any connection between him being psycho to nationality of his. Damn?.I?m already defending myself.

Anyway, I?m curious how this would impact views on Koreans in general. From what I know and based on my experiences, most of Americans can?t distinguish the difference between N. Korea and S. Korea. Whenever there was a N. Korea issue, I hated how I had to explain that I?m from S. Korea and the differences in between N and S Korea is so huge that it?s not even comparable. On top of that, now that this has happened, I?m just speechless.
What do you Americans think this about the killer being Korean? Beside you, what do you think how other Americans would view it?

Well?.this whole situation where I feel sorry for the dead, worrying about myself as well as other Koreans just make me sick in the stomach.

WTF? The only difference between a North and South Korean is a political boundry drawn on a map. I doubt anyone in the world can tell the difference other than a Korean and them only after conversing with the person.

Someone beat you with the stupid stick? N. Korea is communist, repressed, etc. S. Korea is a modernized country, with lots of freedoms. It's like saying East & West Germany during the cold war were the same.

Read much? Place a North and South Korean in a room and tell me which is which without talking to them. Show me where I said the 2 countries were the same? Perhaps you and the OP were the ones beaten with a stupid stick.

We weren't talking about the looks. We were talking about the difference in two very different nations. What I said in the original post is about how I hate it when I have to explain the difference even after I've stated that I'm from S. Korea.

 

[rh71]

This morning my mom emails me saying that the killer was Chinese (that's what she heard from initial reports) and to be careful since there will be more hate towards us. I'm thinking to myself... only the true idiots would react with hate. I laughed it off.

I'm not looking at Koreans any different than before this happened.

Now if it were a global case like 9/11 and everything's that come to pass... that's a different story. It's a certain bias, but still not hate.

 

[paulxcook]

I highly doubt you'll see a rise of anti-Asian sentiment, especially anti-Korean in specific. If for no other reason than because most Americans don't look closely enough to see a difference between Chinese, Korean, Japanese, etc. It was a singular event, and there isn't a large world-wide Korean hatred of the US (at least I don't think there is).

 

[loup garou]

Originally posted by: Citrix

Originally posted by: nweaver

Originally posted by: Linflas

Originally posted by: Deadtrees
Just like anyone else, hearing the news in the beginning has been really uncomfortable. It reminded me of that Columbine High. Incident where some of the people I knew back then were shot. Now that I hear that this rampage was done by a S. Korean, I feel sick in the stomach. That would be because I, too, happened to be S. Korean studying abroad.

I, of course, do not think the killer being Korean has anything to do with this rampage. An individual psycho is a psycho no matter what his nationality happens to be. I do not see any connection between him being psycho to nationality of his. Damn?.I?m already defending myself.

Anyway, I?m curious how this would impact views on Koreans in general. From what I know and based on my experiences, most of Americans can?t distinguish the difference between N. Korea and S. Korea. Whenever there was a N. Korea issue, I hated how I had to explain that I?m from S. Korea and the differences in between N and S Korea is so huge that it?s not even comparable. On top of that, now that this has happened, I?m just speechless.
What do you Americans think this about the killer being Korean? Beside you, what do you think how other Americans would view it?

Well?.this whole situation where I feel sorry for the dead, worrying about myself as well as other Koreans just make me sick in the stomach.

WTF? The only difference between a North and South Korean is a political boundry drawn on a map. I doubt anyone in the world can tell the difference other than a Korean and them only after conversing with the person.

Someone beat you with the stupid stick? N. Korea is communist, repressed, etc. S. Korea is a modernized country, with lots of freedoms. It's like saying East & West Germany during the cold war were the same.

if you dont know the difference between a nationality and a race then you need to stop carrying the stupid stick around.

You guys need to work on your reading comprehension. See bolded in OP. He's talking about countries, not people, as evidenced by a stupid thread here in OT a month or so ago where some jackass was railing on some actor because he thought he was a dirty Commie, when he was actually S Korean.

EDIT: Sorry, it was a HSF company, not an actor (how the hell did I mix that up?):
http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.aspx?catid=38&threadid=2010434

 

[Tiamat]

most americans cannot tell japanese apart from korean apart from chinese, laos, cambodian, vietnamiese, thai, etc...

 

[xospec1alk]

Originally posted by: MikeyIs4Dcats
I think you're the only one who connected being Korean with the shooter. I don't think anyone else thinks Koreans are gonna start killing people all over.

sadly, hes not...my friends are already pointing out to me that hes korean...like its such a big deal or something...psychos are psychos...him being korean is so insignificant...

 

[Phokus]

Originally posted by: rh71
This morning my mom emails me saying that the killer was Chinese (that's what she heard from initial reports) and to be careful since there will be more hate towards us. I'm thinking to myself... only the true idiots would react with hate. I laughed it off.

I'm not looking at Koreans any different than before this happened.

Now if it were a global case like 9/11 and everything's that come to pass... that's a different story. It's a certain bias, but still not hate.

You underestimate the stupidity in this country.

 

[CptObvious]

I'm of Korean descent as well (born and raised in FL though) and I got a sinking feeling in my stomach when I read the ID of the shooter. Up until now South Koreans have had a relatively good world reputation, I think, other than that cloning scandal and a minor incident here and there. This sick f*ck changed that. The South Korean immigrants I know are mostly decent, hard-working people who stick together in their small groups. I admit I'm concerned about a spike in hate crimes.

 

[Ameesh]

Originally posted by: Linflas

Originally posted by: Deadtrees
Just like anyone else, hearing the news in the beginning has been really uncomfortable. It reminded me of that Columbine High. Incident where some of the people I knew back then were shot. Now that I hear that this rampage was done by a S. Korean, I feel sick in the stomach. That would be because I, too, happened to be S. Korean studying abroad.

I, of course, do not think the killer being Korean has anything to do with this rampage. An individual psycho is a psycho no matter what his nationality happens to be. I do not see any connection between him being psycho to nationality of his. Damn?.I?m already defending myself.

Anyway, I?m curious how this would impact views on Koreans in general. From what I know and based on my experiences, most of Americans can?t distinguish the difference between N. Korea and S. Korea. Whenever there was a N. Korea issue, I hated how I had to explain that I?m from S. Korea and the differences in between N and S Korea is so huge that it?s not even comparable. On top of that, now that this has happened, I?m just speechless.
What do you Americans think this about the killer being Korean? Beside you, what do you think how other Americans would view it?

Well?.this whole situation where I feel sorry for the dead, worrying about myself as well as other Koreans just make me sick in the stomach.

WTF? The only difference between a North and South Korean is a political boundry drawn on a map. I doubt anyone in the world can tell the difference other than a Korean and them only after conversing with the person.

actually north koreans are now 50 pounds lighter and 5 inches shorter then their south korean counter parts because of malnutrition

 

[rh71]

Originally posted by: Phokus

Originally posted by: rh71
This morning my mom emails me saying that the killer was Chinese (that's what she heard from initial reports) and to be careful since there will be more hate towards us. I'm thinking to myself... only the true idiots would react with hate. I laughed it off.

I'm not looking at Koreans any different than before this happened.

Now if it were a global case like 9/11 and everything's that come to pass... that's a different story. It's a certain bias, but still not hate.

You underestimate the stupidity in this country.

You know what ? I think you're absolutely right.

 

[technophile82]

speaking on appearance, i cant tell different asian nationalities apart. maybe if i looked at a lot of asians, and was told "this is japanese, this is malaysian, etc" then maybe i could. i do understand though, that north and south korea (speaking of the nations) are quite different.

 

[thirdlegstump]

Sucks not being born white doesn't it?

 

[rh71]

Originally posted by: thirdlegstump
Sucks not being born white doesn't it?

haha, I know you're joking. I love being asian, actually.

 

[sdifox]

You are putting too much thought into this...

 

[iroast]

Does impact my view of SKs. Psychos exist from all ethnicities.

 

[maddogchen]

damn North Koreans...