As far as the striking resemblance goes, I have often wondered why Koreans in particular look more like Mongols (and Kazakhs and Kyrgyz) than other people that are geographically closer to Mongolia and where Mongols are likely to have settled in much greater numbers.

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Don’t worry, you’ll be hearing a lot more about them. We like to make a big deal out of how sophisticated and international - our remote little private country is. It gives us stuff to argue about for years which is our way of burrying an issue - we complicate an issue and submerge it beneath a mudslide of words. That way nothing gets done.

Besides, it’s a great euphamism because, while we consider people with darker skin dirty,it’s no longer fashionable to use ????(half-breed, impure) as freely as we did a few years back.

Frankly, I’m tired of having to make apologies about our racial supremecism. Every society needs someone to look down on, and despite the various divisions in Korean society, one common dog we could always manage to agree on have been the melanin-rich, which up until now were the common laborers. While the trend has been going the other way in developed nations toward the elimination of racial prejudice, bear in mind that we’re just beginning to enjoy the privilige of having citizens of other races to discriminate against. Once we’ve had our fun with it, we too might tire of it but ennui has not yet set in as it has with you and - hey - we deserve our chance too and we’re not about to give up that right. Until globalization eventually wipes out our culture, we’ve got to savor it. We’ve got to own our racial supremecism.