Re: Do Koreans still can't get over ... what? (Re: Why Koreans So Ethnocentric Self-Conscious Racists?)
"Daniel Paik" <uctt@soda.csua.berkeley.edu> wrote in message
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> In article <ea8c947d.0306192229.38ad23cf@posting.google.com>,
> Curtis Desjardins <iloveyumifukawa@hanmail.net> wrote:
> >Here's MY case. I'd say quote about 50% of my over-40 students are
> >openly hostile towards Japan and the Japanese. Neither do they
> >distinguish between those actually responsible for the atrocities they
> >accuse the Japanese of committing during WWII, and those Japanese who
> >were not even born at the time of the atrocities. I personally have
> >not heard any Korean over 40 say anything remotely kind about the
> >Japanese people. Ever. unquote.
>
> i'd agree. well over 50% of the koreans above the age of 40 that i have
> met in korea use the term "il bon nom" when talking about anyone
> japanese...could be a japanese pitcher on tv, could be a japanese movie
> star, whatever. it's not "oh that il bon saram"...it's almost always
> "ah...he's an il bon nom huh?"
The over 40's you've met in Korea would be mostly your family members I
suppose? They sound like some pretty rough and uneducated people.
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