Comments on: This here army don’t need no half-breeds like you

By: Daniel Calto

Daniel Calto — Sat, 27 Dec 2003 10:07:17 +0000

“Remember. Not good, not bad…just different”

Well, that’s advice to live by–subtle thinking!

From now On I’m taking this advice to heart, and I’m going to give a pass to all the child molesters, virulent racists, corrupt officials, and mass murderers I happen to meet. To do otherwise would be….well, just so judgemental!

By: Zhang Fei

Zhang Fei — Sat, 27 Dec 2003 08:24:43 +0000

I fail to see how this is a problem. Not having to serve is a feature, not a bug. Why would mixed-race Koreans want to serve in the armed services of a country that systematically discriminates against them? My understanding from a Korean-American classmate and her non-Korean boyfriend way back in college was that they did not plan to visit South Korea, because of overt discrimination from the Korean public. Seems to me that the most logical thing to do would be to leave the country at the first opportunity.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 27 Dec 2003 00:58:30 +0000

it has

By: oranckay

oranckay — Fri, 26 Dec 2003 08:39:24 +0000

re comment: “I’ve been told on numerous occasions that the children of mixed-race marriages are healthy and good-looking.”

I used to hear that a lot, too. A lot of people my age (born in the sixties) were told in school (biology, usually) that biracial children are very intelligent, but when they in turn have children, you have the extreme opposite. I think it was something about hybrids, maybe flowers, something about how the first time they look nice but if you make a hybrid out of a hybrid it dosn’t work… “and btw class, if you apply this to humans…” This garbage was never part of the regular curriculum, but a frequent side comment when talking about various species, and I heard it from friends educated in different regions. In college, and in the only science class I was required to take since I was doing a humanities major, the professor mentioned this once, and explained what nonsense it was and why. It was a class of several hundred, but he kept looking at me as he talked about it.

At best it wasn’t like someone who hated the 98% percent of the human population that is not Korean and then went out of his way to make stuff up, just to encourage people not to “mate” with them. It was racist, but the *cause* of racist thinking, not necessarily the result of racial hatred.

By: SundubuMan

SundubuMan — Fri, 26 Dec 2003 06:57:10 +0000

over the years, I’ve been told on numerous occasions that the children of mixed-race marriages are healthy and good-looking.

The problem is the foloowing generations, which go downhill from there according to this seemingly widely held belief.

Koreans have no idea how racist they are. They fulminate against Japnaese racism yet they are no different.

I hope they join the human race someday.

By: madne0

madne0 — Fri, 26 Dec 2003 06:07:13 +0000

Cultural relativism at it’s best. I guess the Mullah’s in Afghanistan were right to beat women to death just because they showed their anckles, right? Hell, it’s just their culture!

By: The Marmot

The Marmot — Thu, 25 Dec 2003 23:49:41 +0000

The odd thing is that if you read the Korean piece from Christian Today, it points out improvements in the status of Korea’s mixed-raced population (and one would assume other ethnic minorities, particularly its small Chinese “hwagyo” community) are not only important in terms of social justice within Korea, but they can improve the position of Korea in arguing that other countries (and by this, they are referring in particular to Japan) end descriminatory treatment of their own ethnic Korean populations.

By: scott e

scott e — Thu, 25 Dec 2003 18:17:50 +0000

Silly Sally, you really are quite silly. Defined RACISM is:

The belief that race accounts for differences in human character or ability and that a particular race is superior to others.
Discrimination or prejudice based on race.
-American Heritage?짰 Dictionary of the English Language

Racism has always been and always will be bad and wrong (never “different”), even when Koreans have that outlook on their own society’s mixed children.

Poor Silly Sally and others who wish to open their minds to her polluted way of thinking IS very disturbing.

By: Christopher

Christopher — Thu, 25 Dec 2003 08:40:18 +0000

More moral relativism I see. So now we can go ahead and accept ignorance and the striving for the “purity” of races because it’s “different?”

So Hitler was a man ahead of his time, a pioneer?

Incredible.

Forgive me if I see a problem with that. And I’m sure those that are married to someone of another ethnicity whose children shall be “mixed” that will have an even greater problem than I.

By: The Marmot

The Marmot — Thu, 25 Dec 2003 07:12:16 +0000

luxbearer - narrow minded I may be, but one thing I do enjoy is reading blogs written by expat Koreans in the United States. They provide some invaluable commentary/criticism on “white people’s practices” and American affairs that at times is quite unlike that provided by, well, Americans.

I’m not sure if you’ve checked out the site yet, but I have a link to Weblogs in Korean - if you’re ever bored, I suggest you stroll through their weblog community because they’ve got some real gems in there. Coincidentally, have you visited Gatorlog yet? Great blog written by a Korean (in Korean) who lives in Florida - his politics might be somewhat more agreeable, too.