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Well, a recent article in Golf Magazine (I think) pointed out how many LPGA pros felt that several of the Koreans have used illegal coaches (often their fathers) while playing.
The Korean ladies in the LPGA offer an interesting example of both Korea’s potential for succeess off the peninsula and its potential for alienating everyone.
It seems obvious that most of the successful Korean golfers are neither representing a tradition of the game nor a true love of the game. They are seen as grown children who have been moulded into money-making machines by wealthey aggressive parents.
It’s not their fault that they are talented. It’s just a cultural clash where Koreans are seen as opportunistic automatons given freedom to mint money.
Yea, Michelle Wie hasn’t won too many fans with her father’s “coaching” when she played bits on the PGA tour.
She has another tournament this weekend amongst the man actually. Boy that girl can hit the ball.
This has got nothing to do with the original article you linked in your entry, but with the comment Gerry left:
Far too many Asian parents chart out their children’s lives according to how they would like to see it happen, and I suppose for many Korean parents it’s the success of Pak Se Ri that has triggered off all this insanity, yet it isn’t the only isolated example. And if the most famous case of overbearing-parents/children-in-sports in recent times is anything to go by (the Williams sisters, of course!), these children are in for a hard life.
But not much different from the Singaporean parent who pushes his talented writer son into studying medicine though he hates it, or the father in Dead Poet’s Society who refused to support his son’s love of the theatre.
North Korean parents are not above cannibalizing their children when they are very hungry.
South Korean parents will do the same when they need cash.
It’s part of the beautiful mosaic of diversity that should be respected.
Not good, not bad, — just, different.
You got one f’ed up worldview Silly Sally.
Do you cast a negative opinion on anything regarding the way humans treat each other?
How bout the the man who ate another man simply because he put an ad out for it and someone responded?
Is there a moment where enough is enough?
I’m just trying to get a handle on where one earth you are coming from.
I eat more rice than any man should my Filipino friends tell me. I think I am safe in that regard…
Turn on the sarcasm detector, please. For a group of people who think that Koreans are too easily offended because they take things too seriously, some of you guys seem to have a real hard time figuring out when someone is messing with you. Literally eating one’s children = beautiful mosaic of diversity that should be respected?!? C’mon, Chris … I have a hard time believing that Sally wrote that with a straight face.
i watched a program on secret aircraft of the japanese imperial army. many of the folks in the us were absolutely surprised to see the high performance of the ‘zero’. you see, they were surprised because they assumed the japanese could not build a fighter aircraft.
christopher,
she does have a point. during the currency crisis in 98, a korean man was arrested for cutting off his sons arm for insurance money.
shin jong il,
that’s nonsense. we already knew they had a powerful navy. their chief admiral studied at harvard along with many other japanese military members. the japanese made it a point in the early 1900s to study our technology, steal it from us, and return the favor of bombing their harbors and forcing their markets open.
Ari: Well when all she gives me is sarcasm I have no choice but to accept what she puts down in comments at face value. That’s hardly the first post of this same tone. Anyways I’m young and must naturally be rash, I have an excuse.
Capt: My issue with her statement is not the situations she mentions but the rather nonchalant acceptance of such things as a “beautiful mosaic of diversity.” That strikes me as a bit askew.
Christopher, I have a different take on Silly Sally’s meaning when writes something like this:
“North Korean parents are not above cannibalizing their children when they are very hungry. South Korean parents will do the same when they need cash. It’s part of the beautiful mosaic of diversity that should be respected. Not good, not bad, — just, different.”
She (or could it be “he”?) is presenting the reductio ad absurdum of extreme multiculturalism, presenting us with radically relativist views that force us to make moral judgements and thereby undermine moral relativism.
That’s the reason for her nom de plume — everything’s upside down:
Silly Sally went to town,
walking backwards, upside down.
Buy the book. Read it to your children (before you cannibalize them).
Jeffery Hodges
Chris
you have to eat more rice
or make that
you still have to eat more rice
Grace Park is hot