The Face of “Loving One’s Country”

by Robert Koehler on April 28, 2008

Sorry, Joshua, I just couldn’t resist:

From Yonhap.

Oh, and if the hapless Americans/Canadians who got assaulted by the Chinese yesterday are reading this, your plight was reported in the very right-wing Korean online paper FreeZone, which, if you’re anything like the pro-Tibet people I knew in the States, is probably the last place you wanted your story to be.

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1 dogbert April 28, 2008 at 11:58 am

Time for a backlash.

2 Western Confucian April 28, 2008 at 12:18 pm

No problem! I appreciate the link.

3 Western Confucian April 28, 2008 at 12:20 pm

My guy’s face was uglier, you have to admit! ;)

4 Robert Koehler April 28, 2008 at 12:31 pm
5 Railwaycharm April 28, 2008 at 12:55 pm

And we approved to have the games in China? Animals.

6 The Goat April 28, 2008 at 12:57 pm

@4

There is quite a selection of ugly faces in that picture. I think you win.

7 Western Confucian April 28, 2008 at 12:58 pm

I concede defeat in ugly protester face competition.

8 bumfromkorea April 28, 2008 at 1:04 pm

It’s all a big mistake. While it looks like the protesters are verbally attacking and possibly physically threatening the pro-Tibet protester, they are actually pointing out that the pro-Tibet protester has something on his face. The gentleman in the lower picture seems to be kind and familiar enough to try to scratch it out for him.

“Dude, you got like a black stuff on your face.”
“Really? Here?”
“No, not there. There.”

:-)

9 Sino April 28, 2008 at 1:47 pm

“Patriotism is being proud of a country’s virtues and eager to correct its deficiencies; it also acknowledges the legitimate patriotism of other countries, with their own specific virtues. The pride of nationalism, however, trumpets its country’s virtues and denies its deficiencies, while it is contemptuous toward the virtues of other countries…The difference between patriotism and nationalism is that the patriot is proud of his country for what it does, and the nationalist is proud of his country no matter what it does.”

Sidney Harris

10 hitest April 28, 2008 at 1:48 pm

“Think my breath smells bad, take a whiff of this finger and tell me if I use toilet paper.”

11 Joshua April 29, 2008 at 3:44 am

#9: What a terrific quote.

12 Zhang Fei April 29, 2008 at 4:17 am

dogbert: Time for a backlash.

Not from the Chinese masses. The average Chinese is ecstatic that the stinking barbarians have been put in their place for the unforgivable sin of slandering the mother/ancestral country.

13 Ditto81 April 29, 2008 at 5:50 am

They seem to be obsessed with the size of his nose. Nazi Chinese?

14 WangKon936 April 29, 2008 at 12:28 pm

Caption for second photo:

“Hey long nose… open your eyes! We outnumber you!”

15 orienkorean April 29, 2008 at 4:08 pm

They released a video where they talk about what happened that day:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_ZEAn3RPbU

16 SomeguyinKorea April 29, 2008 at 4:49 pm

Notice the older guy in the bottom picture, the one with the military haircut? I wonder if he’ll get a medal for having accomplished his mission. ;)

17 Bipolar Mindscrew April 29, 2008 at 8:12 pm

Your impossible mission, if you choose to accept it: infiltrate the Chinese protest, blend in, gather information without being identified, and return to base…

Hahaha.

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