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thanks everyone for teaching me things and discussing this mess.
He, my foreign student son, is very embarrassed that I mentioned his upset to anyone and now denies having been that upset. I said that it was fine, that I had made a mistake, that all was well. Hmmmm....
Then, my brother sent us all an email reminding us that more than 32 people die everyday in either Iraq or Darfur or Somalia, and that we are all not upset enough about that happening. He is right, of course.
Bloody old world we inhabit.
posted by
benzinha
on April 29, 2007 at 2:07 AM
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There's a darker side, and a hopeful note here.
Korea reacted to the killing of a pair of Koreans by an American by taking to the streets, violently demanding the government make official apologies and the preps be turned out for street justice.
They don't react that way if it is a Korean who causes deaths, but they will of a foreigner does it. They assume they will experience the same xenophobia.
If they raise their heads and see we are not that sort of nation, hopefully they will become a little less phobic of us.
posted by
majroj
on April 23, 2007 at 12:04 PM
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Benzinha
Regret, perhaps. No shame. Every ethnic group in this great country has had some reprehensible thing done by a member of its group. No group is spotless. No group should have to atone for an error of one person. This is not slavery. This is not the Holocaust.
Yes, I'll tell everyone that. I'll tell every Korean I meet.
Stay well; walk good my friend.
posted by
EX_TURPI
on April 22, 2007 at 9:59 AM
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give him our love
posted by
homegirl
on April 19, 2007 at 3:21 PM
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Benzinha
It is a shame that they feel the shame so, but I can certainly understand how they feel. It is also a shame that the fellow probably knew what it would do to his fellow Koreans and family members but was beyond the caring point. What times we are in and the prominence of TV in our daily lives does not help matters.
posted by
TAPS.
on April 19, 2007 at 11:11 AM
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Americans know that it wasn't anyone's fault but the shooter's.
Koreans feel differently and are raised to feel differently. Each is a cell in a larger being and responsible for some of what the larger being, the Koreans, do, good and bad.
WE can tell them our American things, like, it was just one crazed man, but they then think, yes, but one crazed Korean man, one of my group.
Thank you for reading and for writing here. Thanks so much.
posted by
benzinha
on April 19, 2007 at 11:05 AM
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It wasn't anyone's fault
Except the person who did it..Tell them not to feel bad it wasn't their fault..
posted by
Offy
on April 19, 2007 at 10:40 AM
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