Re: American English Teacher Hits 61 Year old Korean Man

A young American English teacher loses control of his temper and harasses, intimidates, and assaults an elderly man and another woman on a bus in Bundang Gyeonggi province, South Korea.

72daystar's webcam video September 1, 2011 08:56 PM

Article in Joongang Ilbo

http://koreajoongangdaily.joinsmsn.com/news/article/html/934/2940934.html

An interesting vlog from Seoul based blogger Metropolitician. Try the video linked at September 05, 2011 and if you find yourself wanting more context read the Sept. 3rd entry.

http://metropolitician.blogs.com/

Korea Times article that says a witness claiming that a misunderstanding of the nonstandard Korean pronoun 니[you] plus the subject particle 가 - sounds like Niga contributed to the incident.

http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/include/print.asp?newsIdx=93737

The video I'm responding to -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JABqFPNympk

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[SoTodayAtSchool]

I agree with every thing. I love how you said, "Young American" and not "African American". Thanks for this video ! I was so distraught after reading comments and watching other videos on this topic.

[72daystar]

@SoTodayAtSchool It always is disheartening to wade through such banal opportunistic hate. I only have so much energy for that. Thanks for you kind words.

[TwistyTies90]

Again, this guy in this video thinks that the black guy is a victim of racism. Shut bullshit excuse. In fact, the truth is, Asians are the most prone to bullying and racism here in the US. White libtards are fed the lies that blacks are always victims, when in fact, blacks in my experience were the most racist towards my friends (Asian friends) and myself. If the black guy hates living in Korea, then by all means, get his ass out of Korea and go back to the US (Philly, I believe).

[72daystar]

@TwistyTies90 "this guy in this video thinks that the black guy is a victim of racism." No, I don't. I do not know how much he has been subjected to racism and neither do you.

[db7Ryu]

@guitarhamster102 asian americans are just as dumb and ignorant as any other american.

[HDsharp]

We asians get more racism than any other race in the west for nothing, our only saving grace is we keep our heads down, people are much more prejudice towards asians. People think asians are immune to racism, thats so wrong, we can hate too.

[72daystar]

@guitarhamster102 No offense taken. I think I've only managed to live here as long as I have by not dwelling on those sort of things. And taking people person by person.

I have overall enjoyed my stay here. I can't recall a negative stereotype that I've observed worth repeating. That is, I prefer not to whinge about my host country because A. Others have it worse. And B. I don't have it too badly.

I'll just say I've never had an encounter as bad as the one depicted here.

[72daystar]

@enviromed21 Thank you very much.

[guitarhamster102]

@72daystar But aren't most stereotypes of whites in Asia positive? Because where I am from, Taiwan, alot of people have this misconception that the majority of white people are "rich and well-mannered."

I'm not trying to be rude, just want to know if you have ever encountered any negative stereotypes. =)

[72daystar]

@guitarhamster102 Why would that surprise you? There's racism in my home country (Canada), so why not Korea, or Japan? Or any country for that matter. Most of the Koreans I encounter are friendly and polite. And I think most of them are sincere. But I know with certainty that not all of them are.