You ain’t in Kansas anymore. Get over it!

Well, it just is. It’s arbitrary. And 98% of Americans and Canadians know it. And all of us raised in the west know of it, which makes me think your mom was distracted by other things or you never paid her heed.

It’s hard to admit your folks deviated from social mores a bit. Just don’t make like your treatment represents something.

The lives of foreigners are pretty interesting to Koreans, from what I can tell. There are plenty of ways to introduce Koreans to foreigners that portray them as intelligent people with interesting, fun personalities.

One Korean TV program that has made at least some effort to do that is KBS’s 인간극장, which has highlighted various expatriates in Korea (and their families) numerous times.

I’d rather see more shows like that than this idiotic “White Horse Revue” everyone seems so enthralled with.

Why isn’t Leslie around?

Leslie, at first impressed my wife with her maturity, intellect, and her ability to express herself clearly in Korean. But as time went by she started acting and talking like the other less smarter girls, which led to my wife saying that she was disappointed at Leslie for letting herself be swept up by the atmosphere of the show. I don’t blame her though. The show is geared to showing foreign women as tall, pretty, and funny in a less than ideal way, plus the audience was voting for the ones that fit that image. So, it was either go with the flow or sink in the popularity contest.

What’s that Korean model/comedian with the annoying voice?

Her name’s Hyun Young. She does have an irritating voice but a great body that makes up for that. Not that I’m a fan of her. Which begs the question. Why the irritating voice when she has a body that makes some mens’ thingys stand up?

She’s consciously overdoing it. I’ve met plenty of Uzbeks, none of them acted or talked like her.
Let me put it this way: you’ll see her soon in TV commercials talking like that. What’s that Korean model/comedian with the annoying voice? Do you think she’d still get noticed if she spoke in her real voice all the time?

I wonder what Jamila looked like in her high school photos.

Did Jamilla go to high school? I missed that video. Please - photo links, if you’ve got ‘em.