Everything OK now?

Yes, us white expats are the scum of the earth. We come here and work, pay taxes, spend money in the local economy, help meet the extreme demand for learning English, like the local women (hey, what if we hated the local women-wouldn’t that be an insult?) and some of us even attempt to assimilate, though it is certainly not easy (impossible?). Oh, and some of us whine alot.

Or would you prefer it that we collected welfare, joined gangs, committed armed violent crime, raped local women and refused to assimilate, meanwhile not complaining publically about the place?

Do you have respect for ANYONE outside your tight, ethnically defined circle, Bluejives? You come across as less a person with a large chip on his shoulder than a celestial-sized CHIP with a person attached to it by his shoulder.

Shilla hardly “[beat] the crap out of everyone else on the peninsula.” The conquest of Koguryo was almost an entirely Tang affair, and Silla only contributed serious manpower in the last of many Tang invasions.

That may be true (to be honest, I haven’t delved too deply into the history of the Shilla ‘unification’), but it still tends to dispel the notion that South Korea (and its precursor states) has been throughout its history some sort of peacenik commune, and so isn’t accorded much international respect as a result.

Do you suppose that whenever a minority sets foot in a foreign country, that the native majority of that country is automatically inclined by default to be totally accomodating to the minority? Hell no.

Korea is no exception, we all know that by now.

But what is the expat population doing about it? Organizing unions to combat corruption in the hagwons? Fight for equal rights?

Doesnt sound like it. It seems like most expats consider Korea to be a temporary stay. Korea is not their permanent home in which their long term interests are at stake. They also make no effort to assimilate. Hence they are expats and not immigrants.

Well OK then. Expats will stay in Korea and bitch up a storm but they leave eventually and nothing changes and the next group of expats come and bitch up a storm and the cycle repeats itself.

This is why I have no respect for First World expats. You live in other people’s countries but you expect to be treated the same without paying a “immigrant’s due”.

My understanding is that White expats from America usually make very poor minorities. Especially when they were used to being the majority back home. Especially when they find themselves a minority in country whose people they subconsciously consider “beneath them”, in certain ways.

Pot-kettle-bluejives

Anyway, advice to “Korea” is this: Don’t beg for my opinion as the benchmark of your self-esteem, since the risk of unwanted perspective is so high.

Look, Brendan Carr, if you want to say that Koreans are a bunch of inbreed, homogenized mongoloids just say it plainly rather than disguise it under some false-intellectual pretense.

Who said that? My position is that Korea doesn’t know or follow the “rules of the game”, but is bothered at not being acclaimed as the best player. The only problem comes from wanting to be in the game without actually joining a team or understanding the rules.

As to whether I or any other white man (presumably blacks can get a pass from you, due to their sharing with you the experience of white oppression) subconsciously — how do you read my mind, anyway? — consider Korea “beneath me”, who cares even if that’s true? Why is my opinion of Korea so important? The country will still be itself whether or not white people praise it.

Also, Mr. Bluejives, do me the courtesy of spelling my first name correctly. It’s conveniently right in front of you, so all you really have to do is copy.