By Some of you may remember this case about an Indian man who was racially slurred by a Korean man while riding the bus with a female Korean friend. Well the Korean man is now being prosecuted for his racist remarks:
India-born professor Hussein, who with the arrest by Bucheon prosecutors of 31-year old Mr. Park on charges of making racially discriminatory remarks became responsible for the country’s first-ever such arrest, has expressed frustration with the handling of the incident.
After the arrest became public, Prof. Hussein said, “during the police investigation we were encouraged to reach a settlement, and Mr. Park then started to verbally assault me again while the police simply watched. If I had been a white person this would have never happened.” He added, “this is not about punishing Mr. Park. Koreans should use this case as a way to think about the racial double standard that exists between whites and non-whites.” [Korea Beat]
Click the link to read a whole lot more about the incident.
Mr. Hussein still has this thing against white people in Korea. I can assure Mr. Hussein that whitey gets his fair share of crap in Korea as well especially by drunk ajushis who see you with a Korean woman, which is exactly what happened to Mr. Hussein.
Times are either changing in South Korea or Mr. Hussein has some powerful friends because an incident like this I would never take to the police or the courts considering the likelihood of getting screwed by both.
7:28 pm on September 13th, 2009 1
A bigots, bigot.
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9:23 pm on September 13th, 2009 2
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9:31 pm on September 13th, 2009 3
Hussein’s a wuss. Don’t care about his name, but this is not the government’s problem. Either smack the potty mouth down, or give tit for tat. He should know some choice Hankul insults.
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9:48 pm on September 13th, 2009 4
Lets take a look at the racist insults.
“What a disgusting odor! You’re dirty.”
That isn’t racist, and it may be true.
“You must be an Arab. It’s dirty. F*** you!”
How is that racist? Has anybody ever walked up to you and said, “you must be American”? That is not racist. And “it’s dirty”, also seems just a matter of opinion. For example, I was talking to a friend from Indonesia, and I said “Indonesia is hot”. And I didn’t like Jakarta, because it was smoggy and dirty. She agreed. Also, f*** you, is rude, but again not racist.
“You Arab, you Arab.”
Again, not racist, but more of a description. Mr. Park is clearly not a native speaker as you can notice by the missing articles, and is just trying to verify that Hussain is an Arab.
Lastly, Mr. Park says “Are you Korean? Are you happy to date with a black man?” This is also not racist. Koreans don’t have the guilt over slavery that Americans have. Koreans commonly call other Koreans who have dark skin Africans. They are just being descriptive. He does look “black” to someone who is unfamiliar with the different races.
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1:58 am on September 14th, 2009 5
The solution is to find if Mr. Hussein was a stinker or not.
If not, Mr. Park was wrong.
If Mr. Hussein was a stinker, he is deserving of any insult which might make him change his traditional bathing habits so as to better fit into his adopted society by not drawing bad attention.
Insults which stray into ethnic, racial, cultural or nationalistic territory in this situation are pretty fair game… being that insulting a stinker simply for stinking is not so effective or button-pushing… being that a stinker doesn’t really care that he stinks to begin with. Q.E.D.
The laws of probability are against Mr. Hussein here.
There is no shortage of South Asians in Korea (or South Asia, for that matter) that smell like a tub of day-old asssholes left uncovered on a humid summer day in a smoker’s car with the windows rolled up.
This is accentuated by population density in places like buses and subways… especially when one arm is up to hold the rail… a horrific place for a 5 foot 2 Korean girl to be pushed into by the rush hour crowd on an August afternoon.
If you have no experience here, ask your public transportation-using Korean friends what they think of stinky South Asians.
In the end, right or wrong, Mr. Hussein seems like the spaz kid on the playground running to the teacher because little Billy called him a name.
This isn’t Rosa Parks wanting to keep her bus seat. This isn’t fighting for access to a public place or for a job which one is best qualified for.
This is an adult exercise in ignoring an irritating drunk not threatening any violence. If you can’t let that go, it says more about your character than the drunk’s.
If Mr. Hussein was a stinker, yet wins a settlement, I would hope Mr. Park can recover an equal, or greater, settlement based on the irritation and inconvenience Mr. Hussein caused hundreds to thousands of people as he stank his way through public.
It is everybody’s human right to not have to smell that.
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September 14th, 2009 at 2:09 am
“There is no shortage of South Asians in Korea (or South Asia, for that matter) that smell like a tub of day-old asssholes left uncovered on a humid summer day in a smoker’s car with the windows rolled up.”
Many Indians smell like curry and poo. Some smell like body odor and dirt with a cigarette cologne. If you have ever been stuck on a plane next to a stinker, you would wish Mr. Park was there to let that stinker have it. Korean rudeness should not be rewarded, but in this case justice is not served.
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September 14th, 2009 at 2:45 am
Hells yeah!!!
I was stuck on the bus to the airport with some clown. He sat RIGHT NEXT to me- the bus was damn near empty. Soap and he hand never met. I got up in disgust. Don’t give a damn if I hurt his feelings, because he made me ill.
Oh- he happened to be a native African. Does that mean I am racist because I don’t embrace the fine odor of someone who has allowed themselves to go through several dozen sweat through the clothes and dry the sweat sessions?
The word has little meaning or impact anymore…
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4:09 am on September 14th, 2009 6
Many intelligent, educated, cultured South Asians prefer not to use deoderant. Their friends don’t seem to mind. But when they come to the US, they learn to follow our customs. I guess if I go to South Asia, I’ll leave my deodorant at home. But it’s good to know, in case I visit Korea, that I should bring my deodorant. Little things like that affect the quality of a vacation.
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September 14th, 2009 at 6:50 am
A little soap and water go a long way to make people more comfortable around you. I do the same for others, and ask no more than what I would do myself. It’s just good manners.
If you’re a bushman in the Kalahari- got it. Game on. But when you hang up the loincloth, put on a shirt w/ a collar and some trousers and come to town, things be a bit different thar’
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September 14th, 2009 at 9:42 am
Glains, you post some interesting comments. I think the moral of the story is to rub yourself down with curry and poo when you go to Arab countries.
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5:11 am on October 20th, 2009 7
hello every one
i am an Indian
don’t make this issue big
ya every one makes criticize about others its all comman
i request that Indian prof to be more flexible and take lightly about what others speak
and anyone can make comments about others but don’t hurt other feelings and i request mr park to take lightly
i think that this matter should not be developed
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6:11 am on October 20th, 2009 8
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8:04 am on October 20th, 2009 9
LORDOFE2, I cannot wait till your funky a** gets run over by a Korean bus cause your fat a** can’t get you across the road in time. You can’t even afford your own internet you fat creepy bag of lard. Have a nice day!
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October 20th, 2009 at 11:26 am
lighten up. I was just kidding.
Some Indians work at swifty marts (think of lovable Apu from the simpsons) and some tragically have a problem with the bottle. Sometimes the funniest jokes are sadly those that have the pain of truth.
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