Originally posted by: moshquerade
that's not a bit funny.Originally posted by: Luthien
bomb korea?
jk
Originally posted by: 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.
Originally posted by: nweaver
Originally posted by: FoBoT
Originally posted by: invidia
You believing in a different God from anyone else kills more people than wars, drugs and health issues.
you know that christians , jews and muslims all believe in the same God, the God of Abraham ?
doesn't stop us from killing each other over it
Originally posted by: Aimster
Originally posted by: JS80
apparently the parents own a dry cleaners.
I wouldn't be surprised. In Northern VA 99% of dry cleaners are owned by Koreans.
At first they were making millions. It was very obvious by the kind of lifestyle they had. Then all the other Koreans started to copy them. Now they probably make 1/10 what they used to. Still good money, but those who got in on it first made $$
Where I live they have Korean shopping centers all over the place.
Annandale, VA. 90% of the doctors, dentists, restaurants, are all Korean. 90%+ of the Internet gaming places, dry cleaners, and bars = Korean.
They are smart people. They managed to establish a strong foot in the heart of redneck, VA.
Originally posted by: SirStev0
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. 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.
There are differences but yes, without speaking to them it would probably be fairly difficult if you have limited exposure to asian people. Getting out of Bumblefuck, USA and going to a big University helps a lot. I knew a North Korean and a South Korean kid freshmen year, their mannerisms, style and way of talking were pretty different and though it may be attributed to just chance they did have some recognizable facial differences. How they talked was huge though. Very different. I would imagine it would be like a guy from New York and a guy from Tennessee trying to speak another language like Korean. Verbal tendencies from their base languages would carry over and make two distinct talking patterns as well as pronouncements.
Originally posted by: SirStev0
Originally posted by: s0ssos
Originally posted by: nweaver
Originally posted by: FoBoT
Originally posted by: invidia
You believing in a different God from anyone else kills more people than wars, drugs and health issues.
you know that christians , jews and muslims all believe in the same God, the God of Abraham ?
doesn't stop us from killing each other over it
they don't believe in the same God
yes they do. this error has been corrected numerous times on these forums as well as many other places god of Christians = god of Jews = god of Muslims.
Originally posted by: zinfamous
Originally posted by: SirStev0
Originally posted by: s0ssos
Originally posted by: nweaver
Originally posted by: FoBoT
Originally posted by: invidia
You believing in a different God from anyone else kills more people than wars, drugs and health issues.
you know that christians , jews and muslims all believe in the same God, the God of Abraham ?
doesn't stop us from killing each other over it
they don't believe in the same God
yes they do. this error has been corrected numerous times on these forums as well as many other places god of Christians = god of Jews = god of Muslims.
yeah. pretty clear when reading the Talmud, the Bible, the Quran. I didn't kwno that so many people were unaware of this...is it recent-event imposed denial? Revisionist belief?
Originally posted by: manowar821
Originally posted by: zinfamous
Originally posted by: SirStev0
Originally posted by: s0ssos
Originally posted by: nweaver
Originally posted by: FoBoT
Originally posted by: invidia
You believing in a different God from anyone else kills more people than wars, drugs and health issues.
you know that christians , jews and muslims all believe in the same God, the God of Abraham ?
doesn't stop us from killing each other over it
they don't believe in the same God
yes they do. this error has been corrected numerous times on these forums as well as many other places god of Christians = god of Jews = god of Muslims.
yeah. pretty clear when reading the Talmud, the Bible, the Quran. I didn't kwno that so many people were unaware of this...is it recent-event imposed denial? Revisionist belief?
"allah" also translates directly to "god" or "The one true god" in English. They're talking about the same god as the christian and the jewish when they say it.
It actually amuses me to no end when people relate "allah" to a foreign and different entity... It used to piss me off, but now it's just funny. Someone from work still argues this with me even though I've proven it to him several times. Creationists are funny.
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.
Originally posted by: Aimster
0roo0roo is Chinese ... so I take it the Chinese people view the Koreans as "less" than them?
Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
Originally posted by: Aimster
0roo0roo is Chinese ... so I take it the Chinese people view the Koreans as "less" than them?
no its just a fact, when the us went into korea they were still mostly a country of farmers. its just history. and its part of their psych, which is why they are so against things like importing us rice and such.
i don't know why people are so offended i called them the black people of asia. is that an insult? whos racist?
fact is they have done better than any african nation of course, but lets not pretend the advancement wasn't very recent and that such things do not have impact on society and culture of a people. there is a lag.
Originally posted by: Inspector Jihad
Originally posted by: Phokus
Be glad you're not of middle eastern decent, they got the worst harassment after 9/11 from so-called "patriotic americans"
this is true...and sikhs were shot and killed because people thought they were middle eastern.
Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
Originally posted by: Eghck
Originally posted by: uhohs
Originally posted by: blustori
I am korean and moved to Northern Virginia from Maryland a couple of years ago. Some of the things I have noticed for a while now is that a lot of korean kids/people here are spoiled. When their parents are working 24/7, they're obviously not watching what their kids are doing. Also, when you see high school kids with BMWs and Benz, you know something isn't right. And, when you go to coffee shops around this area, there are a lot of asian kids, especially on weekends. They are very loud and have no consideration for the people around them. This generates many stereotypes and fuels racism.
The overall feeling I get from the majority korean population here is that they are materialistic. They always talk about cars, houses, jobs, Ivy League schools; it gets quite annoying. I just want to say that I am against this kind of lifestyle, and I do not represent this group of korean people. People like this obviously ruin it for others. Although it's not right, society has a way of blaming a particular race whenever something bad happens.
sounds like koreans here in socal. lol. :Q
to be honest, I think its built into their culture. There are of course exceptions, but generally I've been told by my fellow korean friends, that Koreans have a very strong sense of pride as well as a heavy concept of "keeping face" or as we usually say "keeping up with the joneses".
koreans are considered the black people of asians. lack of culture, most koreans were farmers not that long ago.
Originally posted by: noto12ious
Originally posted by: Dacalo
Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
koreans are considered the black people of asians. lack of culture, most koreans were farmers not that long ago.
Wow, what a dumb fvck you are.
haha don't mind 0roo0roo...he's a tool, as evident by his posts.
i have many good korean friends... and they're highly cultured.
Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
koreans are considered the black people of asians. lack of culture, most koreans were farmers not that long ago.
Originally posted by: Squisher
I can say that the only stereotypical thought that popped into my head when I found out he was Asian was that I wondered if his parent's pressures on him to excel caused him to snap.
Originally posted by: RayH
Originally posted by: Squisher
I can say that the only stereotypical thought that popped into my head when I found out he was Asian was that I wondered if his parent's pressures on him to excel caused him to snap.
Not just your average stereotypical Asian parent pressure but first generation in the US, Asian parents with only son who grows up under American culture majoring in English in a non Ivy league school type pressure.
Originally posted by: JS80
Originally posted by: RayH
Originally posted by: Squisher
I can say that the only stereotypical thought that popped into my head when I found out he was Asian was that I wondered if his parent's pressures on him to excel caused him to snap.
Not just your average stereotypical Asian parent pressure but first generation in the US, Asian parents with only son who grows up under American culture majoring in English in a non Ivy league school type pressure.
The dude has a sister that graduated from Princeton.
Originally posted by: PlatinumGold
Originally posted by: noto12ious
Originally posted by: Dacalo
Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
koreans are considered the black people of asians. lack of culture, most koreans were farmers not that long ago.
Wow, what a dumb fvck you are.
haha don't mind 0roo0roo...he's a tool, as evident by his posts.
i have many good korean friends... and they're highly cultured.
what culture the koreans DO have is mostly derived from Confucionism. when i was in Korea, i met a chinese person studying in korea. he said to me, he was amazed at how confusionist the koreans were. he felt that korea was the last bastion of confucionism.
so, yes, koreans have no culture, except that the culture they do have is chinese.
Originally posted by: PlatinumGold
what culture the koreans DO have is mostly derived from Confucionism. when i was in Korea, i met a chinese person studying in korea. he said to me, he was amazed at how confusionist the koreans were. he felt that korea was the last bastion of confucionism.
so, yes, koreans have no culture, except that the culture they do have is chinese.