By GI Korea on December 30th, 2009 at 8:00 am

Did You Know the Koreans Discovered America?

» by GI Korea in: Humor

If you all are in need of a good laugh then watch this:

Via Dokdo is Ours!

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Mark
8:35 am on December 30th, 2009 1
It’s funny because it’s true.

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Teadrinker
December 30th, 2009 at 7:43 pm
If you mean that the the same people who colonized Korea also colonized America, then yes, it is.

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gerry
December 30th, 2009 at 8:53 pm
Geronamo ate kimchee?

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Teadrinker
December 31st, 2009 at 2:38 am
It’s Geronimo (Spanish for Jerome), although his real name was Goyaałé. He probably didn’t eat kimchi, but he might have had red pepper since it’s native to North America(although, he only wrote of cultivating pumpkins, corn, melons and beans in his autobiography).

http://www.aaanativearts.com/apache/apache_childhood_farming_medicine.htm

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tellos
December 31st, 2009 at 8:15 am
Yep, spicy peper was brought by spanish to korea..
Retired GI
9:26 am on December 30th, 2009 2
Appears to be a desperate search for past “greatness” by a divided country, that knows it hardly matters to the rest of the world, except as a battle field.

First I ever heard of “koreans” being adventurers/explorers.

If it is true, how did they fall to such a sad state and be commonly referred to as the “Hermit Kingdom”?
An even better question is; Why would I care?

A Korean friend once told me that, “it is not in the korean nature to have original ideas, but we will take your idea and make it better.”

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Ex-Expat Gyopo
10:15 am on December 30th, 2009 3
Aha! So this is how Americans came to use Korean firs for Christmas trees. The Korean explorers who first discovered America brought along Korea fir cones and planted them. I guess we do owe them some money.

http://briandeutsch.blogspot.com/2009/12/do-you-know-christmas-tree-it-is-kind.html

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Teadrinker
December 31st, 2009 at 6:06 pm
I’m guessing they came to that conclusion by doing an internet search for Abies koreana. Yes, it has some popularity as a Christmas tree…in the UK. To the best of my knowledge, firs are nonnative to the UK (though, they’ve been grown there for about 500 years).

Actually, most Christmas trees are varieties of trees that are native to North America and North Europe.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_tree_cultivation#Trees

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Chris In Dallas
10:39 am on December 30th, 2009 4
All of the Apollo astronauts were Korean. Well, there was the all Japanese Apollo 13 crew. Fortunately, the Koreans that run NASA (and the rest of America) corrected that mistake…

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Tom
10:51 am on December 30th, 2009 5
Any reason why you would post a troll youtube video by a Japanese or Chinese pretending to be a Korean?

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Tom
10:57 am on December 30th, 2009 6
Just viewed the video. It’s a Chinese who made the video. They are sore that Koreans are supposedly stealing Confucius, Chinese writing, Yao Ming, Jesus, Mao Ze Tung, Great Wall, Sun Yet Sen, on and on (something new everyday coming out of China) and other false rumors in their media that are spread about Koreans, including the lies that Koreans were the ones who killed Chinese at Nanjing and not Japanese. In a culture of fake products, even their news are fake.

Now we have GI Korea helping them.

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Juchechosunmanse
December 30th, 2009 at 12:31 pm
Come on Tom, it might have been a Chinese who put the video together, but the materials used in the video are no doubt South Korean. A quick Google search or search on Youtube turn up many similar entries. Of course this is even considered fringe in South Korea as most South Koreans don’t buy this kind of garbage, but there are ultranationalist South Koreans out there (as in any country) who churn out this kind of garbage, there is no denying of that. I guess it is because these people don’t feel good enough for being Korean and given South Korea is really insignificant they need to make up stuff to make themselves feel better. Pass!

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Tom
December 30th, 2009 at 3:24 pm
“A quick Google search or search on Youtube turn up many similar entries.”

Mostly all Chinese and Japanese trolls like this video that’s pretending to be a Korean while claiming America was a Korean territory. Lots of Chinese and Japanese have lots of time on their hands for 24/7 to make up stuff against Koreans on Youtubes. Chinese and Japanese feed off on each other because they have a common goal – they both have big territorial issues with Korea.

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Juchechosunmanse
December 30th, 2009 at 5:12 pm
Yeah, blame others for your problem. Come on Tom! Once again, even if it was some Chinese and Japanese trolls who have nothing better to do put these videos together, the materials cited in these videos are clearly South Korean in origin. You actually the Chinese and Japanese created all of these? Even the KBS documentary? WOW!

Sonagi
December 30th, 2009 at 4:36 pm
“Come on Tom, it might have been a Chinese who put the video together, but the materials used in the video are no doubt South Korean.”

You obviously don’t know much Korean beyond your username because if you did, you’d realize that the English captions are inaccurate and probably deliberately so. The original Korean does not read that Koreans populated the Americas. It actually states that Native Americans originated from Asia. The original Korean text does not state that Baekje conquered Inca or the Shilla ruled ancient Egypt. It actually reads that these kingdoms existed during the same time as Baekje and Shilla. I’m not sure who is more ignorant – the trolls that made this video or the commenters who took it at face value.

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Tom
December 30th, 2009 at 5:56 pm
And it tells you what a joke of a site this site is. And the blog owner has the nerve to constantly criticizing Koreans for not dealing with facts and distorting them. Hey wait, Japanprobe has it on their site as well. Let’s see how many anti Korean bloggers pick up on this story to get their licks in. Usually these things goes around in a chain.
WangKon936
11:51 am on December 30th, 2009 7
Yep… it’s an anti-Korean strawman video. Beat on the strawman as much as you like even if 99.9% of Koreans don’t believe what’s said in the aforementioned vid.

I don’t know what’s funnier. The vid or the people who rise to take the bait?

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Chris In Dallas
December 30th, 2009 at 12:12 pm
How about the people who act in such a way others would take the bait? Honestly, I’ve never met a Korean who stated Koreans started up Babylonia or Egypt. But I sure have heard them claim all sorts of turf in Asia is really theirs. And this goes beyond Dokdo and Tsushima.

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WangKon936
December 30th, 2009 at 1:40 pm
Chris in Dallas,

It’s a typical Asian thing to over claim origins. It’s just like some Chinese claiming Italian food and the Japanese claiming to be the total originators of Korea’s modernization.

Koreans aren’t the only offenders.

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Juchechosunmanse
December 30th, 2009 at 2:26 pm
Koreans are certainly not the only offenders, it is just that they are understandably the boldest and wildest of them all.

Chris In Dallas
December 31st, 2009 at 6:25 am
Yeah, you have a point there. You mention the Japanese. I actually find them to be lower on the spectrum with this. Look at the whole “Korean colonized Japan” drama. They bend over backwards to avoid what is clearly true. I never really understood why they never just spun the facts to their advantage. Something along the lines of the Yamato race came through Korea, colonized it then went to Japan where they set up the true Japanese society. Korea? Thats just a nation of wayward Japanese mongrels!
Tom
3:29 pm on December 30th, 2009 8
For the Chinese who claim Genghis Khan was Chinese and claim just about all of Asia as Chinese territory, that’s a laugh, Juchechosunmanse. Why don’t you Egg Rolls let Koreas unify? What are you guys afraid of? Boldest and wildest of them all are the Chinese on the Internet. They’re the funny ones.

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Juchechosunmanse
December 30th, 2009 at 5:18 pm
FYI Tom, there were no “Chinese” or “Koreans” 8 centuries ago. Genghis Khan was a Mongol who led a group of Mongols conquered much of the Eurasian continent. Which Chinese troll had claimed that he was “Chinese”?

And by the way Tom, you are giving China too much credit. China doesn’t call the shots as to whether or when the two Koreas shall reunify. The Dear Leader doesn’t heed advices from Beijing.

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Tom
December 30th, 2009 at 6:00 pm
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/1538174/Outrage-as-China-lays-claim-to-Genghis-Khan.html

Like I said. You egg rolls are something else. Not only you guys make fake food, fake products, fake medicine, fake history, fake everything, you also make fake news. There’s nothing that you guys make that is anything genuine.

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Juchechosunmanse
December 30th, 2009 at 8:00 pm
Who the heck is Guo Wurong? Sure, China has her fair share of lunatics. I for one firmly believe that GK was a Mongol and Kugoryo was Korean, but come on Tom, instead of taking the high road and calling it what it is (like I said, this kind of garbage can be found anywhere), you switched to total denial mode and claimed the whole thing was some sort of Chinese/Japanese anti-Korean conspiracy? Again, neither did the Chinese nor the Japanese create stuff like 한국원조론 or 대쥬신제국사.

True, the controversy triggered by 한국원조론, and particularly by that piece of work 대쥬신제국사 snowballed into some sort of general anti-Korean sentiment in China and Japan that is for the most part fueled by their own biases, which is very unfortunate. But there is no denying that there are South Korean ultranationalists out that (just as there are Chinese and Japanese ultrnationalists out there) churning out these kind of garbage.

Tom
December 30th, 2009 at 8:40 pm
You just claimed above Koreans lie the most and the most bold faced about it, but now you’re back peddling – especially considering how much of you guys have made stuff up on the internet and in your Commy inspired and controlled media. Nobody cares about your f’ckng soy milk, dragon boat race, or Mao Ze Tung or any other ridiculousness that you guys cooked up! No Koreans want to claim those crap! You can have them! What the hell is a 대쥬신제국사? Never even heard of it. If it’s anything to do with 환단고기, forget it dude. You might as well claim Koreans believe in Martians.

Juchechosunmanse
December 30th, 2009 at 9:03 pm
I am not back peddling, my position remains that some of the revionist stuff came out the SK have been some of the wildest claims that I have ever seen (including “Jesus was Korean”). And what does soy milk and dragon boat race have anything to do with this discussion? Can you grow up a bit, Tom? Once again, some Chinese/Japanese “trolls” might have added fuel to the fire by making these BS appear more mainstream in SK than they actually are, but fact remains these BS exist in the first place.

Tom, apparently you have some issues with the Chinese bordering xenophobic but that’s your problem and it shouldn’t derail this discussion.

Tom
December 30th, 2009 at 10:53 pm
“Jesus was Korean”).”

Please point to us where this supposed Korean claim is coming from. What, another Youtube video of Korean traditional art portraying Jesus was Korean, made by a Chinese troll? Or what about the wild story that appeared in Taiwanese media that Koreans are claiming Jesus is Korean. Or how about the Japanese 2ch ridiculing Koreans that Koreans think Jesus was Korean. Why in fact it is. Another wild rumor spread by Chinese, surprise surprise.

I arrest my case.

I got news for you, it’s not true. It’s made up. It’s a lie. Anyone can doctor up videos, upload them, say they are Korean who want to claim everything Korean,and say this is what we Koreans believe.

Tom
December 30th, 2009 at 10:56 pm
Furthermore, you grow up. Only the Chinese and idiots like you will believe Koreans are claiming Jesus is Korean.

Juchechosunmanse
December 30th, 2009 at 11:00 pm
Are you saying that traditional Korean painting depicting the birth of Jesus in a Chosun dynasty Korean village was actually done by some “Chinese troll”? Well, if so that “Chinese troll” must know quite a bit about Chosun dynasty attire and a lot more about Korea. Now I am impressed! Very impressed!

By the way, with regard to “dae chosun cheguk sa”:

http://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%8C%80%EC%A5%AC%EC%8B%A0%EC%A0%9C%EA%B5%AD%EC%82%AC

http://members.at.infoseek.co.jp/koreawatcher/docs/jushin.htm

Tom
December 30th, 2009 at 11:21 pm
That’s not what I’m saying. The Chinese are taking the art work and deliberately misinterpreting them, like every thing else.
This artwork is appearing all over the Chinese and Japanese internet, used to bash on Koreans, and it also appears all over Youtubes.

Of course it’s all Chinese trolls.

Tom
December 30th, 2009 at 11:49 pm
Explaination of bold face Chinese lie

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DtmR0HL5QY

Read all the comments, even after all the explainations, they still throw crap. Click on their profiles, gaurantee you 99% of them have favorite videos marked in Chinese and Japanese writings.

gerry
December 31st, 2009 at 6:55 pm
Jesus ate kimchee?
Kevin Kim
4:42 pm on December 30th, 2009 9
I watched the video and assumed it was put together as a joke.

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Bobby
5:43 pm on December 30th, 2009 10
Did you know that Koreans built the Great Wall of China?

It was to keep the Chinese in

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Teadrinker
December 30th, 2009 at 7:53 pm
Don’t know about that, but I read in a French language history book a long time ago that one of the guys it was built to keep out, Genghis Khan, hired many Korean engineers to help him run his empire. Korea was a technologically advanced nation back then, too.

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Leon LaPorte
7:52 pm on December 30th, 2009 11
I wonder how many cases of ramyon they took on their voyage of discovery.

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Archie B
8:35 pm on December 30th, 2009 12
Tom, learn how to laugh. Life is too short…

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Tom
December 30th, 2009 at 8:48 pm
Hey Arch, how about if I signed up for Youtube account, pretending to be American, upload videos celebrating and joking about the Indonesian tidal wave disaster, and thus inviting hate comments against Americans? You can laugh too right?

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gerry
December 30th, 2009 at 9:52 pm
Archie is right Tom. Often your comments celebrate and joke about others outside of Korea and invite hate comments against Koreans. You seem to welcome it as a validation of your unfounded beliefs.

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Tom
December 30th, 2009 at 10:44 pm
Sorry, but point out to me what made think that. I don’t know what you are talking about.
Its Comedy
9:20 pm on December 30th, 2009 13
Gosh people. It’s from the Korean History Channel – it’s a comedy youtube channel made by Asian-Americans playing on common stereotypes of Asians. They do Vietnamese, Chinese, Korean, Japanese, etc. This is obviously playing on South Korea’s obsessive need to define its role and importance in the world. In fact there was another one about Koreans where a Korean rants about how “millions of year ago, there japanese dinosaur and korean dinosaur. japanese dinosaur eat korean dinosaur. nevuh say sorry! shibal sekkidila! nevuh say sorry! 650 million year! nevuh say sorry”

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Tom
December 30th, 2009 at 10:42 pm
OK genius, let’s say that what you’re saying is even half true. What are the Chinese and Japanese stereotypes that this supposed “comedy Channel” has done recently? Show me one that they did against other Asians. Or is this done only against Koreans? Probably.

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Chris In Dallas
December 31st, 2009 at 6:12 am
I know the bunch you are talking about and I am 99% sure they didn’t do this video. That “Korean History Channel” thing caught my attention too, but this doesn’t seem to fit their style.

BTW, those dudes are hilarious!

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Its Comedy
December 31st, 2009 at 6:23 am
You’re right. Turns out it wasn’t them. My bad. But sheesh Tom, you need to chill out. I’m Korean too but I wasn’t that offended by this video. I mean it was so poorly made that it wasn’t all that amusing but still, when you get so angry over something like this you only make yourself the fool.

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Archie B
11:24 pm on December 30th, 2009 14
To paraphrase SGT Hulka in “Stripes”, Lighten up, Tom

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GI Korea
December 31st, 2009 at 8:13 am
I agree, I guess Tom didn’t notice that the posting was posted in the humor category with a humor tag and not in the Korean history category. I just thought the video was funny because it was so ridiculous.

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Tom
11:28 pm on December 30th, 2009 15
The art painting is by the Korean artist named Kim Ki-Chang. As a Christian since youth, he was trying to put cultural contextualization into the painting of Jesus, just like how the Western Europeans did with their mid evil paintings of Jesus as a white man.

http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/art/2009/10/148_27288.html

You egg roll head really should bugger off, you guys are annoying.

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Retired GI
11:57 pm on December 30th, 2009 16
Tom, thank you for the smile! You remind me of a friend back in the day.
He was 100% korean, adopted by americans, and when the real koreans learned of this, they had a name for it. He would get drunk and rant at anyone that would listen (me) about whatever had hurt his feelings that day.

He is much better now.

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Tom
December 31st, 2009 at 12:01 am
Then maybe you shouldn’t have hurt his feelings, calling him names, and making fun of his ethnicity.
Then maybe he wouldn’t have ranted at you.

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Retired GI
December 31st, 2009 at 1:42 pm
I thought I was clear tom, seems I wasn’t clear ENOUGH for you. I’ll explain.
The Koreans raised IN korea were calling him a “BANANA”. Yellow on the outside and white on the inside.
So THE KOREANS were making fun of HIS back ground. Not me.

He ranted at me because I was the only american that seemed to understand.
In america, we call that being a Friend.

Adasimnika?

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Leon LaPorte
December 31st, 2009 at 12:07 am
Odd you mention that. While Koreans are vastly superior in most every aspect of human endeavor, I have noticed they can be somewhat, shall we say harsh, to non-Korean Koreans. Blood is thick, but not so much. Dae Han Min Guk indeed!

Tom I think your an intelligent guy but lack credibility. Can you once, without equivocation, criticize anything Korean or done by Koreans? Seriously, it’s like your either the ultimate super troll or some kind of professional apologist/propagandist. Come on, give it a try.

I hate __________ about Korea.
or
Koreans make me mad when they _________.
or
While it may be Korean, __________ sucks!

Give it a try. Can you do it? Can you squeeze out even an iota of criticism for that benevolent and perfect creature that is the modern Korea?

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Retired GI
December 31st, 2009 at 1:48 pm
He is more of a pissed off, professional Victim. Quite the “norm” in Korea it seems. Which is strange since he lives outside korea.
I find him entertaining at least.

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Chris In Dallas
December 31st, 2009 at 12:01 pm
I have a mild defense for Tom. I have met many people from many different nations and ethnic backgrounds. With the exception of British and Germans, I have rarely found one willing to admit fault with their nation. And with the Germans, they tend to only admit issues surrounding goings on in their country between the 1920s and 1945.

I have met Koreans who will voice concerns about how fellow Koreans act. All of them were either spouses of non-Koreans or Korean adopted and raised by non-Koreans.

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gerry
December 31st, 2009 at 7:03 pm
And then there are the French. “I am French, France is the capital of the world, I blow smoke in your face, see. We have Paris and Napolian, you have nothing, f**k off”.

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Jsin
2:34 am on December 31st, 2009 17
I showed my Korean wife…she laughed…maybe you guys are taking the video a little to seriously.

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JohnT
8:47 am on December 31st, 2009 18
Of course Judas was korean! Do you know Christmas trees? They come from korea!

“Egg rolls” Tom? Really?

Tom is like most typical korean nationals. They are allowed to put everyone else down often using the victim card as an excuse. If you do it to them though, you are anti-korean, a racist etc…

Most korean nationals have no problem looking down on everyone else, and they do. The Chinese are this, Americans are that, Japanese are this, and on and on and on.

They are just getting a taste of their own medicine and koreans who are like Tom freak out. Too bad for them.

I’m mean, just look at Tom’s whole “egg roll” thing.

If people are anti-korean Tom it’s because koreans are getting back what they dish out to others.

How long did you korean nationals think you could talk shit about people and treat them like crap and not have it come back on you?

I know this will be hard for you and other koreans to believe, but most people in the world don’t care about korea Tom. That means they will not care about the Youtube video. Sorry, I know it’s hard for koreans to accept, but that’s the way of the world.

Most times it’s YOU KOREANS Tom who are to blame for anti-korean feelings, just look at your “egg roll” comment. Why didn’t you tell him/her that they are dirty and smelly too Tom? That’s what you koreans usually say about the “egg rolls”

That’s just one more example of korean hypocrisy.

Obviously korea is not ready to be a member of global society unlike the “egg rolls.” However, as many koreans like Tom say, “If you don’t like it leave!”

So, how many people in the world know about egg rolls compared to those who know about mandoo Tom?

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Retired GI
December 31st, 2009 at 2:02 pm
I don’t get the egg roll comment. Is it supposed to be a bad thing?

Please enlighten me.

As for korea being ready to join the global society—nope.
If it had not been for the 1988 Olympics, it would still look like a third world country. IMO
Korean men and Filipino men seem to be much alike. Both are easy to offend.
I’m sure there are other areas as well.

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JohnT
8:52 am on December 31st, 2009 19
And holy cow Tom, you act like some expat became a korean citizen, joined the ROK military and then sold some military secrets to another country.

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Moongu
1:55 pm on December 31st, 2009 20
Okay. I am a Korean, and I know many people who say stuff like the people in the video. So it is possible that it is actually a Korean guy, but he or she is probably an ultra nationalist and an idiot.
However, the things they say are actually backed by facts, and don’t go as far back. I mean, if its that far back, who knows?

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Moongu
1:59 pm on December 31st, 2009 21
Also, to JohnT
It may not matter to you, but it certainly does to him, and other Koreans. Whether it shows how stupid Korean Nationalists are, or how other countries poke fun at Korean nationalism, its still pretty offensive stuff.
And I’m not saying that korean racism is justified. Its offensive both ways.

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Retired GI
2:18 pm on December 31st, 2009 22
My korean—raised american friend, once while partaking of the soju, decided that I needed to be enlightened, as he had been to the racial back ground of the “average” american. He informed me in a friendly way, that americans were a race of mixbreed dogs. So intrabread that we nolonger had a real race.

I smiled at him and nodded my head. Told him I knew that, smiled again and told him just a few of the races that are in me. He was shocked! Shocked that he had been unable to offend me with the comment.
He is married to a white girl now and has his own mixed breed rug-rats.
Life can be very interesting.

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Teadrinker
December 31st, 2009 at 6:35 pm
I would have reminded him that Korea was a multi-ethnic society in its not so distant past. Heck, you can easily tell by looking at Koreans.

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Moongu
2:49 pm on December 31st, 2009 23
I’m not saying anything about Korean Nationalism or racism. I’m just saying that this can be interpreted in different ways, and both are offensive to most Koreans. (See my previous post)

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Retired GI
December 31st, 2009 at 4:36 pm
The thing that I noticed while stationed in Korea, was that korean men have a VERY thin skin. Love to point their finger and accuse ANY non-korean of all sorts of injustice.
I saw one guy get rear ended on MSR 1, and out of all the cars around him, he looks accusingly at ME, in the obviously american car. I would have stopped to help but I feared an international incident.
But then again, if you have a korean MAN to speak up for you, your golden.
Had a couple of Students take me to a korean bar off Itaewon. It was like an “old Western” movie. The indian walks into the Saloon and the piano player stops and all turn to see, then the cowboy puts his arm around the indian and all is normal. All stopped and looked at me and the student put his arm around me and all was well.

All the koreans were trying to copy the americans “dance moves”. For record: I don’t have any! Ah, good times.

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Teadrinker
December 31st, 2009 at 6:47 pm
“The indian walks into the Saloon and the piano player stops and all turn to see, then the cowboy puts his arm around the indian and all is normal. All stopped and looked at me and the student put his arm around me and all was well.”

I’ve had it happen to me in North America, although not as nearly often as in Korean.

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gerry
December 31st, 2009 at 7:15 pm
I’m french and I walked into a bar in France and ordered a beer. You could have heard a pin drop. Then came the insulting, rude, ‘heh, you know nothing, drink your beer and don’t bother us, then go. We do not like you Americans.’ (and nobody put there arm around me.)

Retired GI
December 31st, 2009 at 9:46 pm
I’m sorry GERRY. Really, it is 2.5 hours from the new year, at the time of this writing. Here is my arm—

Seriously, me and Jim Beam are seeing this one to the bell rings.

Thanks guys and girls, for the input and output.

Your “french”???? WTF

thinkin of a trip to korea in july (when it’s hot) It will also be the first time I was there outside the uniform.

Oh! Jim is callin and Beck is on the tube.

See you in 2010. I think it will be a VERY good year.
America is either feared or disliked, seldom embraced—unless needed.

Again—-my arm!

gerry
December 31st, 2009 at 10:51 pm
RETIRED GI, Yes I am of French ancestery, altho I do not advertise it. (French American?, American French?, both sides of the family came from France). My father spoke fluent French, my mother wasn’t sure what street she lived on. Yes, it has always been an embarrassment to grow up as the only ‘frog’ in a town with only Polish and Italians.

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gerry
December 31st, 2009 at 10:53 pm
8 minutes to midnight, think I will mosy on out to the lanai and watch the fireworks. Happy new year to all.

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Retired GI
December 31st, 2009 at 11:03 pm
German, Scottish/Irish with some native american. Nor do I advertise. I do get “branded” as southern.
On racial profiling sheets that the Army puts out, I check “other” as they usually don’t have Irish-american listed, but rather “white”, which is a color and not a race.

We all carry a cross of some sort. Happy New Year Buddy!

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