Comments | cieo: Count 'em

cieo

Count 'em

Jan 27, 2006 22:27

Really, count 'em. My Korean friends. Now, subsiding_leaf gets on my back about this issue all the time. See, I don't have a single Korean friend ( Read more... )

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subsiding_leaf January 28 2006, 05:10:39 UTC

It's not really that odd.^^; I didn't have a single Chinese friend (unless you counted cousins, which I'm not) until I met Majo in junior year of high school, and that was online, by accident, and I didn't know she was Chinese. I'm not getting on your case about not having Korean friends...or getting on your case at all. Making friends doesn't have anything to do with nationality. I personally don't like the exclusiveness that comes from an extremely homogenous group like the one you've described here, either. I'm just thinking you ought to have (more) pride in the culture and history of your country, because I'm positive it's fascinating.^^ It is surely not the case that Koreans were all backward little peons until OMG the Mighty West came along. Go learn more about Korea, man!

cieo January 28 2006, 05:17:03 UTC

Yeah, I get it. I wasn't trying to make you feel like you were beating me over the head with it. Just mentioning that you were making a point to me :) Sorry if it came across that way!

Yes, must learn more about Korea. Something objective, though. Not Dad's pov, which is pretty skewed towards the negative.

cieo January 28 2006, 05:17:26 UTC

Sweatdrop!!!!!!

shupriorsquishy January 28 2006, 19:22:45 UTC

My one beef w/ the FOB Korean girls is that they kept showing up for my cog psych study, even though we specified NATIVE ENGLISH SPEAKERS ONLY, and it would mess up our eye-tracking data.

Otherwise, I have no opinion of them. JUST DON'T PARTICIPATE IN MY EXPERIMENTS.

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jfargo January 28 2006, 05:27:47 UTC

I don't know if it's so strange. I mean, I grew up with my four Korean-born siblings, and don't have any Korean friends. Well, not in real life, anyways. *shrugs*

I judge people based on merit, and the simple fact of the matter is that I just don't KNOW any Koreans.

I'm really tired right now. :)

cieo January 28 2006, 05:59:13 UTC

Yes, merit--I am basing all this on merit, which is probably why I'm having so much "trouble." I'm not out there to, you know, "collect" them. Yeah.

I'm sorry you're tired.

cieo January 28 2006, 06:00:30 UTC

BTW, were your siblings adopted, or from a different marriage (if you don't mind my asking)?

jfargo January 28 2006, 15:16:47 UTC

Adopted. All five of us were, as a matter of a fact. I'm just the only one that was adopted from the US. It's apparently MUCH harder to adopt from the US than anywhere else.