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International Adoption in South Korea.
The article doesn't mention the cultural resistance to adoption. Which is sad, I think.
It's kind of a sore subject with me, since my sister was an international adoptee. There is NO DIFFERENCE between international adoptees and your-DNA children. And it is insulting to me when people claim otherwise. I'll never be convinced otherwise without very persuasive statistics.
Interesting story today: Gay culture has really not penetrated Korean popular culture very far. They are still very much in the closet. In the time I spent teaching adults, it never really came up unless I specifically brought it up as a discussion topic, and there is not really any equivalent to "Will + Grace" in the popular culture. That is changing, for example Koreans seem interestingly more accepting of the transsexual pop singer Harisu than they are of homosexuals generally.
Since I've been [supposed to be] looking into issues about Korea and colonial relationships, I pulled out my copy of POSTCOLONIALISM: AN HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION by Robert J. C. Young.
[Why do you say, "an history"? Why do you say, "a unicycle"? Shouldn't it be "a history" and "an unicycle"?]
[I'm the worst English teacher ever.]
I was really surprised to see that Korea was virtually left out. There are some passing references to Korean delegations at the Internationals. The only note of substance was the following:
I have had a half-pot of 된짱찌개 sitting on my stove since Thursday. I don't want to mess with it. At this point, I'm think that if I only wait it will evolve a motive ability and leave of its own accord.
“I don’t have a problem,” Chang-hoon said in an interview three days after starting the camp. “Seventeen hours a day online is fine.” But later that day, he seemed to start changing his mind, if only slightly. ... “I’m not thinking about games now, so maybe this will help,” he replied. “From now on, maybe I’ll just spend five hours a day online.”
Just some free writing about my statement of purpose for graduate school.
Why do you want to pursue a career in Asian languages and cultures?
It's hard to say I want to pursue a career in it, because I don't really see a career in it. It's up there with highly unemployable majors. The only career where it is directly applicable is "Professor of Asian Languages and Cultures". When I told my cousin, he said, "What are you going to do? Teach?" Which immediately begged the question, is there even an opportunity to teach that?
Enclosed is an image I created to illustrate the dating pool at my university. Assuming the locus was myself, in Red Square between classes:
'a' represents the length of my arm
'c' represents the length of a dead cat
'A' represents a cute asian girl
'W' represents a cute white girl
'U' represents an ugly asian girl
'S' represents a skateboarder narrowly missing a collision with pedestrians
As can be clearly seen, you couldn't swing a dead cat without hitting several cute asian girls.
Ted Nugent was redneck cool.
I'm really, really not cool with the whole White Boy + Asian Girl = Yellow Fever thing. I have friends who do the Yellow Fever thing, and its not cool. I know it, I've seen it, in pretty much all of the disgusting lengths to which it can reach.
I've been dating my Korean girlfriend for just about six years now. I'm white, she's asian. Get over it.
Finally finished Prasso's THE ASIAN MYSTIQUE. I would definitely call it a starter rather than a complete treatment of the subject. Some interesting points, and very readable, but it ain't Said's ORIENTALISM. Well, most people wouldn't consider the fact it's not minute analysis of the works of obscure linguists a flaw.
