I read through the comment section for the Wall Street Journal article "MBC Producer What's the Fuss About?". There were some interesting ones, both good and bad, which bear commenting on.
The first one that stood out was from a commenter going by the name "Welcome to the Real World". He addressed a topic dear to me, apologists.
9:37 am June 8, 2012
Welcome to the Real World wrote:
Apologists for this piece need not raise their voices here. Korean culture gets slammed for xenophobia, racism, fascism, etc, because it deserves it, plain and simple. If Koreans didn’t act this way daily to foreigners of all colors, races, creeds, and nationalities, then the “rumor” (fact!) of racism in this culture wouldn’t be deserved. Unfortunately, that is not the case. Far too often, the significant others of Koreans in mixed relationships must endure disgusting behavior that is entirely based on the insecurity, incivility, and ignorance that exists in Korean culture.
Apologizing for it and quieting it over, deflecting, or outright denial about it won’t make it go away. It was only the intolerance of this type of behavior in other cultures that has suppressed and made these inhumane actions unwelcome there. The same intolerance is expressly deserved and long overdue here as well.
This was very well said. In fact I will probably use this in the future when responding to Korean apologists.
Thursday, June 21, 2012
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It's a good idea to bring these behaviours out into the light. People need to be told when they're acting rudely.
ReplyDeleteIf they take the lesson to heart, that's all the better. They show their quality by the choices they make.
I have always been a firm believer in that idea. Whether it is the way someone acts, drives, whatever. If they aren't told when it is wrong they go on thinking that they aren't doing anything wrong.
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