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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.

[Cattle Rustler]

I'll bring this thread up to date using the knowledge I know....mostly reading security clearance appeals and knowing friends with SCs.

When the US State Department or CIA hires someone, a person is usually required to turn in their second citizenship.

My prof who has US/French citizenship didn't had to but a US/Mex friend had to. What they do is give you a form to sign, you fill it with your other nationality's information (national ID #, etc). Then they submit it to the country's embassy to surrender that nationality.

Norway mentions that you have to present proof of renouncing your other nationality. This usually by going to the US embassy, renouncing it in front of a consular officer, and submitting the proof to Norwegian authorities. The proof would be the Certificate of Loss of Nationality that costs $450. SK might do something similar or check with the US gov't. This is a " no play before pay" thing, they will not move forward until you have proof that your other nationality is cleared.

The lost passport thing would be futile as you would turn in the newer passport and the second one would be invalidated as soon as you turn report it stolen. Not even crossing into kenya via a land border crossing would work, someone got caught doing that.

If...by any miracle you manage to trick the system, you're playing with hot fire. As soon as one country finds out, it could inform the other which would leave you stateless. SK doesn't tend to play around with foreigners doing this.

[Brodiaga]

(02-17-2013 07:39 AM)Samseau Wrote:  

Having an extra passport could save my ass someday, and allows me to keep out of the USA's radar if I want to travel and go places. Might also be useful for scamming other countries - say, for example, I go to a country with a 4 month visitor time limit, then I leave, and then I come back with a different passport.

But you're right, I don't think this is possible either, I just want to see if anyone on this board might know something I do not.

The trick with a different passport won't work, because you won't have an entry stamp in the second passport. You'll be penalized regardless.

[GyopoPlayboy]

If you really are serious about this, do it the right way and hire a professional on these matters.