QuoteI don't think I, or my country, are any better than anyone else. I think my country is better than say, Somali. Does that make me a stupid nationalist?
I don't think I, or my country, are any better than anyone else.
I think my country is better than Yemen. Does that make me a stupid nationalist?
Quote from: stoat on October 24, 2019, 01:38:17 pmI think my country is better than Yemen. Does that make me a stupid nationalist? Did you use the ethnicity and nationality of an American of Yemeni descent to invalidate their opinion? If not, the probably not, at least not the stupid part. If you did, then quite probably, at least the stupid part.
If the dictatorship was foreign, they'd have a case, as it stands, the dictator was one of Korea's own. So, tough luck, like any other country, Korea is responsible for its own past and mess.
Furthermore, I'm going to play devil's advocate and say that I find it a bit of a stretch to believe that one of the most experienced nations in warfare makes it logistically possible to kidnap, house, feed and guard 200 000 non-combatants, while fighting a losing war.
but so far, logic dictates that those 'comfort women' were in fact, just prostitutes.
Alternatively, it must have been Koreans themselves who kidnapped their own women and sold them off as comfort women. Why not? Many Africans did this during the slave trade.
- The Japanese made us kill all the Korean tigers to kill our national identity- The Japanese made us chop down all our trees- The Japanese made our women wear the 'breast exposed Hanbok'- The Japanese made us commit war crimesnotice a pattern?
Reports and testimonials listed bellow state that Koreans themselves were largely responsible for rounding up comfort women, gangs of Koreans targeted women from poor peasant families and even managed the comfort women stations.
- Korean men make up the largest percentage of 'sex tourists' in SE Asia for underage prostitution.- More than half of Korean men have cheated on their spouse and 40% believe paying for sex isn't cheating http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20160801000806- Korea is one of the most patriarchial societies on Earth
So when people say "There is no best country............ .........." Yeah, no. If I asked you to colour in every country on a world map with green for "would live there" and red for "No way" there would be at least a dozen red ones
My Korean friend has returned to Korea after 4 years in Prague!Cuz his dad has cancer.
For the first time since living here, I experienced the "please understand their unique situation..." and God has it wound me up.Generally I'm very lenient with the students and gentle. Very rarely lose my temper. Last week a group of four students sitting at the back of the class weren't listening and had their wallets out on the desk with cards and money etc chatting quietly. I walked over and gently told them to put it all away. They did. Walked back to the front to continue the class and within ten seconds they had their wallets out again and continued their chat. Walked back again and told them much more firmly to put them away which they did. Walked back to the front and again saw that they had pulled their wallets, cards and money out. I saw red, marched over and shouted at them. CT took them out to talk to them.Fast forward to today and apparently both the student and my CT didn't understand why I was so angry. CT tells me she was shocked about what I did and I should try to understand that students have different personalities. Am I missing something here? Like I said I'm very lenient with the students in general but they were taking the p*ss.
Quote from: alexisalex on October 29, 2019, 10:16:58 amFor the first time since living here, I experienced the "please understand their unique situation..." and God has it wound me up.Generally I'm very lenient with the students and gentle. Very rarely lose my temper. Last week a group of four students sitting at the back of the class weren't listening and had their wallets out on the desk with cards and money etc chatting quietly. I walked over and gently told them to put it all away. They did. Walked back to the front to continue the class and within ten seconds they had their wallets out again and continued their chat. Walked back again and told them much more firmly to put them away which they did. Walked back to the front and again saw that they had pulled their wallets, cards and money out. I saw red, marched over and shouted at them. CT took them out to talk to them.Fast forward to today and apparently both the student and my CT didn't understand why I was so angry. CT tells me she was shocked about what I did and I should try to understand that students have different personalities. Am I missing something here? Like I said I'm very lenient with the students in general but they were taking the p*ss.classic"they are just kids... please understand them.... they don't know how to behave"well, how about the teachers TEACH them how to behave, then? isn't that, umm, your actual job?
so many kids don't even arrive with a pencil. this would never be acceptable in england (at least, when i was at school). like, what are you doing, kid?