I'm Korean.

[cw42]

south koreans love playing video games, therefore that was the cause of the shootings.

-jack thompson

 

[SilthDraeth]

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.

P.S: I'm worried because I know what those Middle Eastern people has been going through since 9/11. On top of that, as I've mentioned, Americans don't seem to know the difference between N. and S. Korea and that I fear Americans would think Korean= people from a nuke crazy, people dying in hunger country + psycho mass murder.

I got my hair cut by a Korean lady, and she told me that Japanese, and Chinese are sweet, but Koreans have really mean streaks. She attributed it to the difference in cuisine.

To me personally it doesn't change my views. It is one major story about a Korean. Yet it is wrong to hold stereotypes about blacks and Hispanics when there are thousands of news stories about them. And it is ok to hate whites, there are thousands of news stories about them as well. I don't follow but anyways.

 

[geecee]

Crazy is crazy. Nationality/race shouldn't make a difference. But it probably will...

 

[Shlong]

It might have an opposite effect, my friend who is Korean said people are treating him a lot nicer than normal.

 

[Inspector Jihad]

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 of people.

corrected

 

[SuperGroove]

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.

Originally posted by: Shlong
It might have an opposite effect, my friend who is Korean said people are treating him a lot nicer than normal.

Originally posted by: cw42
south koreans love playing video games, therefore that was the cause of the shootings.

-jack thompson

Good points

 

[Hammerhead]

Take this test
Asian Identification Test

 

[Scarpozzi]

If Koreans really wanted to kill americans, they would infiltrate the American auto market with cheap, unsafe automobiles.

 

[Chaotic42]

I think the difference is that this guy acted alone while the terrorists acted in a coordinated way and promised to do it again. Of course, the Arabs in America that celebrated 9/11 certainly didn't help. If a bunch of Koreans started rallying in the streets, praising what this guy did, you'd see the tide of public opinion turn against you.

 

[FoBoT]

i will do my part to help, i'll keep going to the chinese buffet

 

[nweaver]

Originally posted by: Scarpozzi
If Koreans really wanted to kill americans, they would infiltrate the American auto market with cheap, unsafe automobiles.

lol

 

[bennylong]

I see a Senate hearing soon because this guy played World of Warcraft.

 

[ys]

My co-workers are already saying I look just like the killer. I better start wearing contacts tomorrow.

 

[Aimster]

I got into a lot of situations have 9/11 because I am from the Middle East.
Bunch of redneck hillbillies and campus police.

This is nothing like 9/11 so you will be fine.

 

[FoBoT]

Originally posted by: ys
My co-workers are already saying I look just like the killer. I better start wearing contacts tomorrow.

wear a false beard or a wig , that should help

 

[Podolak]

What do you Americans think this about the killer being Korean?

His race/nationality etc. matters not, he was sick, any race/nationality can have sick people. My views on South Koreans or Asians in general has not changed. I think of people as individuals, I base my opinions on what I know about them, not what I know about their race/nationality.

 

[Scarpozzi]

Originally posted by: ys
My co-workers are already saying I look just like the killer. I better start wearing contacts tomorrow.

You look just like the killer before or after he disfigured his face with a gun blast?

 

[Turin39789]

Originally posted by: Phokus

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.

Now that i think of it, where was the outrage against whites after Timonthy McVeigh and Columbine?

I kicked my brother in the nuts for that. He's white and drove a truck at the time. That outta learn em.

 

[nweaver]

Originally posted by: Chaotic42
I think the difference is that this guy acted alone while the terrorists acted in a coordinated way and promised to do it again. Of course, the Arabs in America that celebrated 9/11 certainly didn't help. If a bunch of Koreans started rallying in the streets, praising what this guy did, you'd see the tide of public opinion turn against you.

ftw

 

[StormRider]

Originally posted by: 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.

I'm Chinese and for some reason I got a sinking feeling in my stomach when I heard the shooter was asian too. It's weird because it must be because I like the idea of asians having a good reputation and it upsets me whenever I see an asian person doing something bad.

I'm not really concerned about hate crimes because he didn't do it because of some "Korean ideology" where there are a group of followers who will celebrate his actions. He acted alone. He was a psycho who just happened to be Korean.

 

[ys]

Originally posted by: Scarpozzi

Originally posted by: ys
My co-workers are already saying I look just like the killer. I better start wearing contacts tomorrow.

You look just like the killer before or after he disfigured his face with a gun blast?

Doesn't matter. Asian, dead or alive, all look the same to non-asian.

 

[bob4432]

Originally posted by: BoomerD
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...)

cnn (i know) posted the serials had been filed off...fwiw

 

[BoomerD]

Hmmm, let's see...we were at war with Korea...50+ years ago...
The other day, this came out in the news:
http://www.modbee.com/local/story/13487517p-14095998c.html

"Six years after declaring the U.S. killing of Korean War refugees at No Gun Ri was "not deliberate," the Army has acknowledged it found but did not divulge that a high-level document said the U.S. military had a policy of shooting approaching civilians in South Korea.
The document, a letter from the U.S. ambassador in South Korea to the State Department in Washington, is dated the day in 1950 that U.S. troops began the No Gun Ri shootings, in which survivors say hundreds, mostly women and children, were killed."

Now, the VTI shooter turns out to be Korean...

<insert conspiracy theory here>

 

[ShotgunSteven]

Originally posted by: bob4432

Originally posted by: BoomerD
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...)

cnn (i know) posted the serials had been filed off...fwiw

I heard that too, but the question is, did he buy stolen guns with the serial numbers already filed off, or file them off in hopes of getting away with whatever he was planning?

Filing off the serial numbers is pointless, they can still be identified using acid, unless you know the work-around.

 

[J0hnny]

OH GREAT, his face is all over the internet now...

Articles are pointing out that he was a "RESIDENT ALIEN"

"Police identified the gunman in the classroom attack as 23-year-old Cho Seung-Hui (pronounced Choh Suhng-whee). Cho was in the U.S. as a resident alien with an address in Centreville, Va., but was living on campus in a different dorm from the one where the bloodbath began, the university said."

How soon before this turns into some sort of anti-immigration thing?