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ModernLogic

11-06-2003, 01:51 AM

Missing the Content of Their Character

by Shin Ji-eun (ifyouare@chosun.com)

A married couple - Ukebu, 33 and from Nigeria, and Rowena, 29 and from the Philippines - were riding a subway train recently when a group of Korean men made a rude comment after seeing that Rowena was pregnant. They saw the young men looking contemptuously at them, and heard them laughing, saying, "What color would the skin of the baby be?" Ukebu told his wife to ignore them, but after they got off the train, the couple cried together....

http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200310/200310290027.html

hooligan

11-06-2003, 09:55 AM

:(

deez nuts

11-06-2003, 10:19 AM

**wipes a tear away**

mr. x

11-06-2003, 12:04 PM

how'd they know they were korean...i spose the eye thing is an indication

kimpossible

11-06-2003, 12:14 PM

You mean the group of men on the bus? This is a report about Korea.

mr. x

11-06-2003, 12:17 PM

^---ooh i see i see, so was one fluent in korean?

applehead

11-06-2003, 12:22 PM

fobby koreans are so rude.

i'm sorry!

d-boy

11-06-2003, 12:27 PM

They're not fobs. They're Koreans in Korea.

applehead

11-06-2003, 12:30 PM

yeah.
duh.
i was joking.

d-boy

11-06-2003, 12:38 PM

nice sense of humor you've got.

applehead

11-06-2003, 12:39 PM

why.
thank you.
you're too kind.

d-boy

11-06-2003, 12:42 PM

don't mention it. i live to enlighten.

deez nuts

11-06-2003, 12:43 PM

hahahaha

applehead

11-06-2003, 12:52 PM

HAHAHAHAHA
i like you!!

kboy75

11-06-2003, 12:59 PM

:(

mr. x

11-06-2003, 01:09 PM

meena if we had kids what would they be

HAHAHAHAHAHA (sob)

younggiftedandblack

11-06-2003, 01:40 PM

Why the hell did they cry for??

Maybe it's the American in me, but I would've wupped some ass.

Napoleon Chynamite

11-06-2003, 01:47 PM

how'd they know they were korean...i spose the eye thing is an indication

Perhaps the fact that they were in Korea might have tipped them off.

deez nuts

11-06-2003, 01:51 PM

Perhaps the fact that they were in Korea might have tipped them off.

lol

SunWuKong

11-06-2003, 01:52 PM

Why the hell did they cry for??

Maybe it's the American in me, but I would've wupped some ass.

well, i don't know why they were crying.

but Korea or America, i'd be a little hesitant to confront them physically with my pregnant wife around.

d-boy

11-06-2003, 02:10 PM

Why the hell did they cry for??

Maybe it's the American in me, but I would've wupped some ass.

You're in Korea, not the U.S., and surrounded by a bunch of Korean a**holes. A lot of Korean guys (not AAs) are really tough f*ckers.

You think you'd take them on in that situation? Puh-lease.

deez nuts

11-06-2003, 02:17 PM

wupp dat ass!

kimpossible

11-06-2003, 02:25 PM

Would any of you cry if some idiots on a train were making fun of you (or your child)? Sure, I'd be a bit intimidated by a group of guys but I'm pretty sure I wouldn't cry when I got home. I don't think I'd even sweat them.

younggiftedandblack

11-06-2003, 02:28 PM

You're in Korea, not the U.S., and surrounded by a bunch of Korean a**holes. A lot of Korean guys (not AAs) are really tough f*ckers.

You think you'd take them on in that situation? Puh-lease.

I know one thing. I wouldn't have cried. What kind of punk ish is that??? They insult your woman right in front of you and you just cry!!! LOL!!!!

I take it back they should've wupped his ass.

deez nuts

11-06-2003, 02:29 PM

Would any of you cry if some idiots on a train were making fun of you (or your child)? Sure, I'd be a bit intimidated by a group of guys but I'm pretty sure I wouldn't cry when I got home. I don't think I'd even sweat them.

no i would wupp dat ass!

kimpossible

11-06-2003, 02:31 PM

and over and over and again and again and over and over and again and again and over and over and again and again.

nonamerasian

11-06-2003, 02:43 PM

I don't think I'd cry either because can't say I'd be too shocked by racial attitude received there.

ChinaLama

11-06-2003, 03:10 PM

i wouldn't cry cuz after all it's just a bunch of good people with flaws.

yeah and you thought i was gonna race bait but not today. ;)

Actually, it's just not worth crying over. I mean bunch of stupid people that you don't know talking trash and a stupid storeowner who thought you were a thief when you weren't. His loss of my business. Now if they were physically abusive, then i still wouldn't cry. i'd pull out my sword, which i carry for these special purposes, and cut off their heads.

applehead

11-06-2003, 05:26 PM

well maybe they were really hurt.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

nonamerasian

11-06-2003, 05:33 PM

The Reverend Kim Hae-Song of the Seongnam House for Foreign Workers along with four foreign workers filed a petition last November to the NHRC that the term "salsaek," Korean for "the [natural] color of skin," promotes racial discrimination. Consequently, the commission ordered that the usage of "salsaek" be stopped in all coloring materials.

I used to have old flesh colored crayons and probably still have flesh colored Bandaids somewhere around.

abct

11-06-2003, 10:08 PM

Well, Korea is Korea, and they are a homogenous country that does not educate racial tolerance. That's just the way it is. However, America is a country that DOES preach racial tolerance and equality, which makes it even sadder and pathetic when it fails to conform that way.

mr. x

11-07-2003, 12:28 AM

Well, Korea is Korea, and they are a homogenous country that does not educate racial tolerance. That's just the way it is. However, America is a country that DOES preach racial tolerance and equality, which makes it even sadder and pathetic when it fails to conform that way.

replace korea with japan and you've got the same idea...unfortunately

i know they arent representative but half of the korean music videos i watch are of dudes getting into fights

or dudes fighting over girls (or both)

ModernLogic

11-07-2003, 03:24 AM

Personally, this article gave me another perspective on the ugliness of racism. Growing up as a scrawny Asian in Oakland, most of the racism I encountered were black-on-Asian. But I guess in a place like Korea where there is an Asian majority, you also see Asian-on-black racism as well.

Cipherous

11-08-2003, 09:58 AM

Personally, this article gave me another perspective on the ugliness of racism. Growing up as a scrawny Asian in Oakland, most of the racism I encountered were black-on-Asian. But I guess in a place like Korea where there is an Asian majority, you also see Asian-on-black racism as well.

I think whenever people have power, they tend to abuse it. I am not saying all people are like this but I think statistically, whenever people have such power they will abuse the weak.

In this case, the people who have power are the majority and the people who have less power are the minority.