The Friday edition of the Dong-A Ilbo has a series of very interesting pieces (1, 2, 3, 4) on mixed-race Koreans and the discrimination they face in Korean society. I see the Dong-A has translated one of them into English, and I’ll summarize the rest later this evening.
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The articles are interesting. I’m curious as to why only the article highlighting the story of the man whose father was a soldier was chosen for an English translation. I was surprised to read in the fourth article that Koreans willing to marry a Korean of mixed heritage were much more likely to accept a Korean with a white parent than one with an Asian parent.
I think this kind of thing sounds too pessimistic to me like accepting the reality as it is as it is degrading.
“According to the Bureau of Statistics, international marriages are increasing every year, from 12,319 in 2000, 15,234 in 2001, 15,913 in 2002, 25,658 in 2003, to 35,447 in 2004. Marriage to Asian partners from the Philippines, Vietnam, Thailand, Uzbekistan, and others account for 30 percent of the total number of international marriages.”
now if the author only added japan and china to the “asian partners” they’d probably have over 80% of international marriages.
I have lots of mixed friends, some of them hopelessly. Seriously, there’s nothing wrong with being impure…at least not half wrong. Now if you can genetically engineer a mixed race person, you’d be in business. But the problem is who can guarantee you don’t get stuck with a pasty faced, big assed, fat-livered guy who farts garlic in the elevator? I guess the poor guy would have to put a bone through his nose and make his living as a model for newspaper cartoonists.