Comments on: Well, there goes the neighborhood

By: figbash

figbash — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 15:14:03 +0000

Does anyone know if there are more specific breakdowns of nationality and job available online?

By: sanshinseon

sanshinseon — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 03:48:41 +0000

ahhh, YOU know what they mean…

And actually, they’re just being accurate, it’s not a
mistaken usage at all. No matter how long a non-Korean stays here in Korea, no matter if you take the citizenship or not, you can never and will never be considered to be a Korean. No matter how much some might want to be. The several white friends I have who have taken Korean citizenship can tell you all about it. That’s just how it *is* here, ain’t gonna change anytime soon.

I was told that before I even arrived, in fact; witnessed the truth of it in my first few years and made my appropriate adjustments. Not that I ever wanted to “be a Korean” anyway… Content and secure enough with what I actually am, even a bit proud of it. All of us who decide to spend our adult lives here have to deal with this issue one way or the other; there’s a wide variety of good ways, partly based on whether you marry a Korean or not….

Collectively, we could write an entire book on this subject — and i’ll bet it would be pretty good.

By: Newshound

Newshound — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 02:16:56 +0000

Naturalized Koreans? ’cause once you’ve got the passport, ya ain’t foreign.

At least to me.

By: kushibo

kushibo — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 01:20:54 +0000

As well, 39,500 foreigners hold Korean citizenship.

I see that Korea is as bad as the other Asian nations in that citizenship doesn’t erase the fact that one is foreign.

Duh. They should have called them “foreign-born citizens” or “foreign-born Koreans.”

By: Iceberg

Iceberg — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 00:46:37 +0000

Okay, let’s try again…

use (blockquote) instead of (i) or (b)

By: Iceberg

Iceberg — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 00:45:48 +0000

You have to use this:

By: thorin

thorin — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 00:37:50 +0000

Yah! Now how do I quote?

By: thorin

thorin — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 00:36:07 +0000

tries again…

By: thorin

thorin — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 00:34:58 +0000

*hmm*

By: thorin

thorin — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 00:33:57 +0000

[i]African-Americans are really upset that they will no longer be the majority minority race in the U.S. Personally, I’d like to see more Mexicans and Chinese emigrate to the U.S., they are hard-working and decent people, with fantastic family and educational values.[/i]

You mean compared to those lazy Negros? That’s what it sounds like you’re saying.