Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!onodera-news!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!headwall.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: ws001e@yahoo.com (Will Smith) Newsgroups: soc.culture.korean,soc.culture.japan,fj.soc.politics Subject: Re: Why Koreans So Ethnocentric Self-Conscious Racists? Date: 12 Jun 2003 02:51:05 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Lines: 26 Message-ID: <45ec6bc3.0306120151.7528161@posting.google.com> References: <365fcc52.0306072145.71aef35a@posting.google.com> <365fcc52.0306082248.ac7b784@posting.google.com> <365fcc52.0306090950.5f03797f@posting.google.com> <365fcc52.0306092111.168a2434@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.228.48.137 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1055411465 9240 127.0.0.1 (12 Jun 2003 09:51:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 12 Jun 2003 09:51:05 GMT Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.soc.politics:3051 nospam@nospam.net (Kay) wrote in message news: > Keep in mind I have never defended Korean boorishness. > I admit that many are. I am merely offended by your defense > of equally objectionable Japanese boorishness and effort > to put the blame solely on Korean shoulder. That is really bad. Kay, I've been reading your responses and I applaud your maturity and patience. But you're wasting your time. Really in the large scheme of things rivalry and hatred between the two countries can be argued to be counterproductive. But when you look at the large scheme of things it hardly matters. The truth of the matter is both countries suffer from inferiority complex. Japan with the US, and Korea with Japan. Funny thing though that both are second fiddles when it comes to China in the region, and China is second fiddle to the US. Japan doesn't even figure from a geopolitical standpoint. Its only power is economic and because of its incestuous banking and business culture it is slowly imploding right now. Its really all jockeying for who is the third wheel in a race between two countries that are not even placed to finish. Its all laughable. As to the title of this thread, both countries are reknowned for their xenophobia, and racist derived drive for racial purity. Its quite like the pot calling the kettle black.