I'm getting tired of Korean food again. And I'm tired of Koreans being like "you can find everything you eat in America in Korea easily right?" and they get shocked when I tell them no, we eat more than pizza and hamburgers. No, I can't easily (or affordably) continue my same diet from home here. I'll deal, but I don't know why so many people here are like "we have all the same food as America right?!" I mean, I wouldn't assume that my home has the same food available as any other country so why the hell would Korea be the exception? Another annoying thing is when I actually have to tell an adult human that no, Korea isn't the only country that eats rice.
My CT runs to turn off all the fans. I tell her that it's going to get really hot and that she can just tilt the fans to face upwards, thus maintaining circulation without blowing the cards off the student's desks.She doesn't understand and I go to show her how to tilt the fan... She panics and runs up to me saying "No! No! I'll do it." Offended and not in the best of moods, I tell her that I'm a 30yr old man, who has graduated from University, with an honours degree. I know how to operate a simple fan without breaking it.
Quote from: Aristocrat on June 22, 2017, 12:30:11 pmMy CT runs to turn off all the fans. I tell her that it's going to get really hot and that she can just tilt the fans to face upwards, thus maintaining circulation without blowing the cards off the student's desks.She doesn't understand and I go to show her how to tilt the fan... She panics and runs up to me saying "No! No! I'll do it." Offended and not in the best of moods, I tell her that I'm a 30yr old man, who has graduated from University, with an honours degree. I know how to operate a simple fan without breaking it.Ugggggggghhhhhhhhhh, I've said it before and I'll say it again, the infantilisation of the foreign teacher amazes me. "Wow, you took the subway to Yeoju? Isn't that difficult?" NO"Wow, you went to Noraebang? How?" IT'S EASY. "Wow, insert X here." YOU KNOW I'VE BEEN HERE OVER 4 YEARS.Imagine a Korean was in Toronto for 4 years? "Oh, wow! You made it down to Niagara Falls all by yourself? How on Earth did you manage that? You know how to do that?"People would call me the most condescending prick in the world.
My annoying coT keeps asking me to speak Korean to the students because they supposedly "think it's funny." I shoot her down every time now. I get a feeling she wants to feel superior about her pronunciation of her native tongue. One time she insisted I repeat some Korean sounds after her (like ㅆ and ㄸ) and the students just gave me looks like they didn't get the point of the demonstration and/or thought her crazy. She was trying to show that my pronunciation was off but I like to think I'm passable.
Did you ever notice that the media in Korea can report opinions or numbers but never the two together?http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20170622000709This is a story about income in Korea.It notes that men out earn women 1.7:1, but doesn't discuss why.
Quote from: JNM on June 22, 2017, 02:11:01 pmDid you ever notice that the media in Korea can report opinions or numbers but never the two together?http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20170622000709This is a story about income in Korea.It notes that men out earn women 1.7:1, but doesn't discuss why.An explanation of why men out earn women, for example, wouldn't be an opinion if backed up by facts and numbers to arrive at a conclusion. That conclusion could be challenged, but the discussion would take place with facts as the basis. The problem is when actual opinions are entered into the mix to try and shutdown a discussion of facts. For instance, if someone says, "Men are just constantly oppressing women because they're all misogynists" or "Women aren't as capable as men," and this explains the wage difference, then the discussion more often than not becomes whether or not that opinion is true, not why, objectively, there is an actual wage difference. The Western media typically mixes these two together to coverup important issues. The Korean media doesn't necessarily have to go as far because South Koreans are often taught in schools not to question things. If people get upset at the numbers or facts, decades of certain thinking take hold, and then the opinion articles enforcing a concept and that old thinking can be employed.
Quote from: mrc45 on June 23, 2017, 05:40:48 pmQuote from: JNM on June 22, 2017, 02:11:01 pmDid you ever notice that the media in Korea can report opinions or numbers but never the two together?http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20170622000709This is a story about income in Korea.It notes that men out earn women 1.7:1, but doesn't discuss why.An explanation of why men out earn women, for example, wouldn't be an opinion if backed up by facts and numbers to arrive at a conclusion. That conclusion could be challenged, but the discussion would take place with facts as the basis. The problem is when actual opinions are entered into the mix to try and shutdown a discussion of facts. For instance, if someone says, "Men are just constantly oppressing women because they're all misogynists" or "Women aren't as capable as men," and this explains the wage difference, then the discussion more often than not becomes whether or not that opinion is true, not why, objectively, there is an actual wage difference. The Western media typically mixes these two together to coverup important issues. The Korean media doesn't necessarily have to go as far because South Koreans are often taught in schools not to question things. If people get upset at the numbers or facts, decades of certain thinking take hold, and then the opinion articles enforcing a concept and that old thinking can be employed.Thanks.I should have said "analysis" instead of opinion.
Quote from: JNM on June 23, 2017, 05:57:57 pmQuote from: mrc45 on June 23, 2017, 05:40:48 pmQuote from: JNM on June 22, 2017, 02:11:01 pmDid you ever notice that the media in Korea can report opinions or numbers but never the two together?http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20170622000709This is a story about income in Korea.It notes that men out earn women 1.7:1, but doesn't discuss why.An explanation of why men out earn women, for example, wouldn't be an opinion if backed up by facts and numbers to arrive at a conclusion. That conclusion could be challenged, but the discussion would take place with facts as the basis. The problem is when actual opinions are entered into the mix to try and shutdown a discussion of facts. For instance, if someone says, "Men are just constantly oppressing women because they're all misogynists" or "Women aren't as capable as men," and this explains the wage difference, then the discussion more often than not becomes whether or not that opinion is true, not why, objectively, there is an actual wage difference. The Western media typically mixes these two together to coverup important issues. The Korean media doesn't necessarily have to go as far because South Koreans are often taught in schools not to question things. If people get upset at the numbers or facts, decades of certain thinking take hold, and then the opinion articles enforcing a concept and that old thinking can be employed.Thanks.I should have said "analysis" instead of opinion.No, I would say you were correct. One rarely finds an actual analysis in the Western media; just overblown opinions.
Analysis is really what I want to see, but I do I agree that honest analysis is becoming rarer in the west as well.We used to see some of it from public broadcasters (CBC, BBC, PBS), but they have taken a swing to the left in recent years.I used "opinion" in perhaps a more archaic usage - the current use is more aligned with "position"."I think women are paid less because they often choose lower paying lines of work, and they also often leave the workforce after having children," is an opinion based on some analysis. It is open to new data, and dares you disprove me."I think women are paid less because that is their place. I am a [right wing party] supporter, and a member of [conservative religious sect]," is more of a "position" sort of opinion, and not open to new data.
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