It's not every day one comes across something so completely ridiculous, so overtly pompous, so hysterically absurd that it generates a lurid compulsion to read it again and again. I've always subscribed to the belief that the vast majority of people are inveterate self-praisers; we tend to be as convinced of our own genius almost as we are baffled by how no one else could notice. For this reason, with predictable consistency, some fool hopped-up on 100mg of self-importance makes a comment that, well, sounds something like...."if you get killed from smoking, you've lost an important part of your life"-Brooke Shields... or "The Korean Language and Korean Writing are the greatest cultural inheritance of everything in the world" -Mr. Notworthmentioning. Since this quick post is about quotes, I think it only fitting to close it with one. “It’s so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say then don’t say it.” –Sam Levenson Great advice, Sam!!!!
서울 [Seoul]—The crowded, bustling, megopolis that is the center of the Korean world.
왜국인 [Foreigner]—Taken literally this word means anyone who isn’t Korean; though since most Asian peoples tend to be referred to by their respective national origins (ie Japanese, Chinese, 등…) this title often implies Westerner. Given Korea’s natural state of irrational xenophobia the word foreigner in Korean lends itself quite easily to derogatory usage. (+ 치께) a thick stew of ~.
한민족 [Korean Race-Nation]—A Korean version of 19th-Century Western MISconceptions of race. It is an inane mythopoeic concept of racial purity that only the most backward, uneducated, racist, generally detested, trailer park-living fools subscribe to in the US. Here it is not only accepted but virulently defended by both masses and academics alike..
영어“선생님” [English “Teacher”] Those pesky, resented, VD carrying, sex-crazed, drug-addicted, imported byproducts of the modern Korean obsession with English.
미국인 [American]—The most commonly used label for a Westerner by those who don’t know any better. The most commonly used pejorative label for a Westerner by those who do.
김치 [pepper-spiced cabbage]—A Korean sidedish eaten cold with nearly every meal. Consistent with the universally held Korean conviction that most foreigners are unaccustomed to spicy foods, it’s typically served with a fat bowl of “can you eat this?”
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