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(02-26-2013 11:33 PM)Major Tom Wrote:  

(02-25-2013 05:27 PM)Samseau Wrote:  

(02-24-2013 02:54 PM)Giovonny Wrote:  

(02-17-2013 07:10 AM)Samseau Wrote:  

I'm only a quarter Korean

Samseau's mom is half Korean!!!



Now, this comment (from another thread) sounds funny to me..

(02-07-2013 09:45 PM)Samseau Wrote:  

this is a good indictment against the failure of multiculturalism.

Aren't you a living, breathing, example of successful multiculturalism???

Korean culture + American culture = Samseau.

If there was no multiculturism, there would be no Samseau!

If Europeans never came to America, there would be no Giovonny. We are both the product of multicultural circumstances.

I'm not suggesting that all multicultural situations will be successful. I'm only saying that some multicultural situations workout okay.

Also, breeding 2 different races within the same species can sometimes lead to genetic advantages; You could be an example of this..?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heterosis

Example: Mixed women are often beautiful.

Actually... my mother was adopted from South Korea. She was left at an orphanage when she was young and the reason my grandmother picked my mother was because she was white with strong Asian features.

The head of the orphanage said that my mother would face intense discrimination growing up as a white girl in an Asian society (this was back in the 1960's), so my grandmother took the most pity on her.

I'm guessing my mother was the bastard child of some Korean woman who couldn't resist some white soldier stationed at the border in Seoul, but, since she couldn't bear the shame of having a child out of wedlock she dropped my mother off at an orphanage.

Thus my mother's example is a strong case against multi-culturalism, because it was my adoptive white grandmother who spared my mother a horrible fate in Korea.

Also, my case is a good example of why I'm against abortion... had my mother been conceived in 2012, she wouldn't have been dropped off at an orphanage, she would have been just another discarded fetus.

I think things are getting better there now. My story: I was born as a US citizen in Seoul and grew up in Korea for the first 7 years of my life (I am ethnically full Korean), and attended school on a US air force base. Many of my elementary school classmates were half-Korean, half-white children who were products of marriages/dalliances between local Korean women and US soldiers--it was so common I never thought anything of it, let alone witness any overt "discrimination" (this was in the mid-1990's). I remember back in 2006 after the Steelers won Super Bowl XL and Hines Ward won MVP, he went back to Korea with his mom on a publicity tour to advocate against discrimination against biracial children like himself. He was received like a king. Korea's one of the most ethnically homogenous countries on earth and for better or worse it'll stay that way, but I'd say now it's definitely better than the reality your mother would have had to face had she stayed behind.

I'm Korean and worked in Korea as well, and I have family friends that are close with Hines Ward's mom. There's a lot of back story where the Korean government officially invited them and his mom adamantly refused at first. She basically got run out of Korea for having a kid with an African American serviceman while facing discrimination daily from Koreans. It was only after constant begging from her son that she begrudgingly agreed to go back.

While Hines Ward is an awesome person and a truly underrated (though arguably dirty) football player, Koreans didn't care about his black ass until he won the MVP award. But once he stepped up in the spotlight, Koreans wanted to highlight the "Korean" aspect of his persona without taking responsibility for all of the discriminatory practices that half foreign people experience to this day.

It's definitely better than the 70's and 80's and hapa kids (white/asian) are considered more preferable than blasians, but when it comes to mixed race couples and children, Korea is still way behind the West's stance on this issue.