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I\u2019m in a bad, foul mood today. \u00a0I feel like writing with a little venom.<\/span><\/p>\n I don\u2019t exactly remember what prompted me to think about this story, but it came into my head earlier today, and I felt like writing about it.<\/span><\/p>\n Koreans are notorious racists.\u00a0 This probably isn\u2019t much of a surprise to anyone reading this, considering how often times I get accused of being racist, which is probably kind of true, but I also believe that everyone alive is a racist too, whether they want to admit it or not, but the more important thing, if they act detrimentally on their feelings or not.\u00a0 I don\u2019t believe I do, so I think there are far worse people in the world than me, who finds amusement and ironic humor from the occasional tasteless remarks.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n But so yeah, Koreans, racists.\u00a0 But the weird thing about Korean racism, that from what I can surmise, one of the biggest victims of Korean racism seems to be, well, other Koreans.\u00a0 Sure, Koreans are not immune to developing biases against other races as well, I think it\u2019s impossible considering the stereotypical nature in which Koreans are the people that are often known to be opening convenience or liquor stores in sketchy ghetto neighborhoods populated with lots of blacks, Hispanics and gang activity.\u00a0 But from what I\u2019ve seen in my life whether it\u2019s based on personal experience or just being a witness, Koreans seem to be the least loyal to their own race than any other Asian culture in my opinion.<\/span><\/p>\n When I was still living with my folks in Virginia, and was having my first real bad bought of eye inflammation from too much computer screens at sleep-deprived AM hours, my mom took me to a Korean optometrist.\u00a0 Indignantly, and with a major attitude, he pretty much told me that I was going to go blind, and actually didn\u2019t explore any options for medication, and sold me overpriced frames for a new pair of glasses that are not an accurate prescription.\u00a0 I told my mom that that guy could go fuck himself and that I\u2019m never going to another Korean doctor in my life.\u00a0 I went to an optometrist that I had built some ads for at the paper I worked for, and lo and behold, I wasn\u2019t going blind, I just had some bad inflammation, and here, this prescription will ease it down.\u00a0 Figure that.<\/span><\/p>\n This experience opened my eyes (no pun intended) to the fact that Koreans were very apt to taking advantage of other Koreans, deliberately taking for granted that lots of first and second-generation Koreans who immigrated to the States would be willing to trust Korean professionals for no other reason than to avoid the big and scary language barrier.\u00a0 And then they would do shit like price gauge, provide faulty service, and other despicable bullshit to turn the screws to their fellow Koreans.\u00a0 At first, my parents called me paranoid and ungrateful and disgraceful, but a year later, my dad asked me to make an appointment for him at my \u2018Merican-run optometrist.<\/span><\/p>\n The sad thing is that as bad as Koreans mistreat other Koreans, there\u2019s actually a demographic that gets it worse \u2013 Half-Koreans.\u00a0 Halfies, hybrids, mixies.\u00a0 Those born from one Korean parent, and another parent of a different race, whether it\u2019s black, white, Hispanic, or another Asian culture.\u00a0 Half-Koreans get it worse than anyone else from other Koreans, and this is where Koreans are the world\u2019s biggest hypocrites in the world.<\/span><\/p>\n Which really saddens me, because as a white-washed twinkie that I\u2019ve been claimed to be labeled as that doesn\u2019t really get along great with other Koreans, I\u2019d imagine that my future offspring has a very good chance of being a halfie somewhere down the line.\u00a0 And the thing is, I think half-Koreans; half-Asians in general, are often times really beautiful human beings, from an aesthetic point of view.<\/span><\/p>\n After the Pittsburgh Steelers won a Super Bowl after a massive championship drought, there were numerous stories about the Super Bowl MVP, Hines Ward, and his mixed lineage. \u00a0Despite the fact that the entire Korean race was lauding Ward as this national Korean hero, neither Ward or his Korean mother were buying into any of the bullshit hypocrisy being showered down on them.\u00a0 Ward recalled stories of his childhood as he was shunned and berated by other, full-blooded Korean kids, because he was half black.\u00a0 He would be called nigger and other horrible things, but when his Korean church had athletic teams, Ward would emerge as the star athlete for sports.\u00a0 And then Ward would recall stories of how he would essentially single-handedly win games and honors for his Korean teams with everyone being really happy, when it came time to celebrate, they didn\u2019t want any part of Hines Ward being included in the festivities.<\/span><\/p>\n The best part was when the naturally distraught Hines Ward brought this all to light to his Korean mother, she was the one who basically taught him the invaluable lesson that Koreans are full of shit, and to not associate with them anymore.\u00a0 Ultimately, the two of them obviously took free trips to Korea, where they were given hero\u2019s welcomes, honors and luxuries, but neither of them were the least bit fooled by the transparent front-running nature of the Koreans who likely possibly couldn\u2019t give a shit less about Hines Ward until he became a champion.<\/span><\/p>\n Hines Ward\u2019s story is an unfortunate one, known on a national level, but for some reason, the thought sparked this whole acid-tongued brog post comes from a personal story from my childhood.<\/span><\/p>\n When I was really little, as in like somewhere between Kindergarten and maybe the second grade, I remember that my family was this religiously confused family that couldn\u2019t really figure out what we were doing on Sundays.\u00a0 My dad\u2019s side of the family was all raised Catholic, but my mom\u2019s side was pretty much all Presbyterians.\u00a0 And with all my aunts being overbearing, there was a too-long period of time where I remember my family making the drive from Harrisonburg to NOVA on a weekly basis to go to fucking Korean Presbyterian church.<\/span><\/p>\n Anyway, I recall an instance where I think it was a retreat of some sort, or mostly a children-only kind of excursion, where a whole bunch of Korean kids were sent off to spend a day at some park.\u00a0 I remember not having any friends amongst all these kids, because I was already pretty much an outsider, being a church commuter, who didn\u2019t see these other kids regularly, nor go to Sunday School with them.\u00a0 My cousins, whom I guess our families assumed were going to be the gateway into the other kids all ran off to clique away with their existing friends.\u00a0 So I spent a lot of this time by myself, even back in those days, not really too different to how it is today.<\/span><\/p>\n Amongst all these children was a little girl, that I recall being even younger than I was.\u00a0 Probably like a pre-schooler, or a Kindergartener, which meant that I had to have been in like the first or second grade.\u00a0 I want to say that her name was Jessica, but the thing was that she was half-Korean.\u00a0 Half-Korean, and half-white.\u00a0 But I remember the sheer amount of grief that the other kids would give her.\u00a0 And it\u2019s not like passive aggressive grief of nobody talking to her or anything, this was straight up physical bullying.\u00a0 Whereas I was just simply ignored, Jessica was getting harassed, and for no real reason, either.<\/span><\/p>\n The most vivid memory was probably also the worst, which is when she wanted to get on the merry-go-round, and pretty much all of the kids already on it, making a point of preventing her from getting on. \u00a0Although they succeeded at allowing her to actually get aboard it, I recall the visual of at one point little Jessica hanging on to one of the bars, having her feet being drug in the dirt as the other kids wouldn\u2019t let her on.\u00a0 At one point, Jessica finally fell off and hit the dirt; thankfully it wasn\u2019t that hard, but the damage was finally done.\u00a0 It was at this point that the final straw broke, and little Jessica started to cry.\u00a0 And all the other Koreans kids actually began laughing at her.\u00a0 Finally, someone came to address a crying child, but it\u2019s hard to imagine that so much bullying went ignored.\u00a0 Church functions like this always relied on simply older kids to keep an eye on the younger ones, and not necessarily people who have any experience in managing or corralling kids.\u00a0 Jessica apparently moved on as the day went on, but mostly by playing by herself, and closer to older kid supervision.<\/span><\/p>\n I don\u2019t know what triggered this memory, but I could probably chalk this up as one of those memories that served to have fed into the distrust towards other Koreans that I harbor even to this day.\u00a0 Not to say that I don\u2019t trust\u00a0all<\/em>\u00a0Koreans, as I\u2019ve made a few Korean friends, kind of like me in that they\u2019re weird, they\u2019re white-washed, or at least not so sheep-like in that they associate exclusively with other Koreans for no other reason than just race.\u00a0 I like a lot of these people.<\/span><\/p>\n What\u2019s ironic is that some of my cousins have married non-Koreans, and popped out some mixed kids of their own.\u00a0 Although they\u2019re treated with the love and care that comes unconditionally within a family unit, during the last few family functions that I can actually recall, I can\u2019t help but wonder how they\u2019re seen in the eyes of other Koreans that are not related to them.<\/span><\/p>\n If it\u2019s anything like little Jessica from the 80s, all the way to Hines Ward in 2006, then probably disdain, disgust, and an eagerness to avoid association.\u00a0 That is, unless they somehow become famous.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I\u2019m in a bad, foul mood today. \u00a0I feel like writing with a little venom. I don\u2019t exactly remember what prompted me to think about this story, but it came into my head earlier today, and I felt like writing about it. Koreans are notorious racists.\u00a0 This probably isn\u2019t much of a surprise to anyone … Continue reading Koreans can be so full of shit sometimes, too<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[90,103,83,15,91,89,105],"class_list":["post-35125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-hypocrisy","tag-motherland","tag-observations","tag-og","tag-pf","tag-racism","tag-rage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35125"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35127,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35125\/revisions\/35127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}