by Bang on Thu Aug 18, 2005 10:58 pm
I don't think post will change much, but whatever...ugh, in all honesty, this gives me something to do since I have no one here.
My country's involvement in Iraq? QUE??
What is that all about?
Where is that coming from?
Well unlike the US, we do not have a volunteer army, we are forced to go to the army. EVERY SINGLE MALE HAS TO GO TO THE ARMY. So it was against our will, NOBODY supported it except for the president. Not to mention the congress was against it but our stupid president agreed to give reinforcements. Even as that prisoner died begging the stupid politicians to withdraw troops. Once again, it's the damn politicians. Look, my hatred is against the politicians.
Yes, everyone should apologize, but comparing Korea's involvement with Iraq to Japan's millions killed in world war 2 is kind of different in scale, don't you think? Yes, but the whole world should apologize for what was done in Iraq. Plus, we certainly aren't going to erase that we supported Iraq out of our history books.
Imagine if they suddenly decided to take slavery out of the textbooks. Just imagine that.
Our country has never really had the power to attack another country. We've been invaded 1000 times but never really attacked. Unless you're confusing us with North Korea.
You know, the Japanese also have a derogatory word for Koreans, and that word is considered the most offensive thing you can say in Japanese. It's a lot like the n-word, referring to Koreans as an inferior and a nation belonging to Japan. So of course I don't like hearing that. I sort of used jap as a joke initially, my mistake sorry, and someone else also used jap but suddenly everyone starts attacking me, wtf?
Fine, my drunkeness might not have been an excuse, but look, this is the problem with individual racism. You get nowhere. All you do is point fingers and think that racism is in the individual. You think that person is the problem, but in reality, race is everywhere. Oh, there is individual racism, and IF individual racism leads to institutional racism, then you've got a huge problem. I'm not going to go on treating japanese unfairly nor do I automatically hate a japanese when I see one. Look at it this way, we are so concerned with reverse racism that affirmative action doesn't work as well as it did before. (That affirmative action implies being unfair to whites or that it implies that African Americans are inferior because they can't get jobs without help. When in reality, there is so much racism written into the laws that African Americans are naturally in a much tougher environment. This is ignoring the context of slavery all together.) Did you know that a whopping 50% increase from lower class to middle class jobs happened right after affirmative action, but after the Bakke case, which introduced reverse racism, it went down again? And all those Schools are MORE segregated than they were 20 or so years ago. What is the problem with this? People tend to think racism is over, except for the few racists, when it is far from over, and it is not only because of racists. Race is not in our hearts and minds, it's in the economy, the school systems, the laws, the real estate, etc.
My prejudice against Japanese will have no effect whatsoever on anything. Japanese are already regarded in a higher plane than Koreans anyhow. Almost everywhere, Koreans are looked as inferior versions of Japanese because Japan has formed alliances faster than Korea has. Koreans need a visa in a lot of countries that Japanese don't need a visa for. See, that's the core of racism, things that aren't obvious. If we fight the wrong targets, then racism will always remain, because we keep hitting the wrong points. Do you think Booker T. Washington really liked being treated as inferior? He secretly donated to civil rights activists, but still kept on emphasizing the economic aspects of racism. Should Booker T. Washington be considered a racist for accepting prejudice, but aiming for economic equality?
Do you think I, who occasionaly harbors prejudice because of the stories told by my granparents, but also tried to help poor people in Brazil get into better schools is worse than some politician who doesn't have any outward prejudices but argues that affirmative action is unfair because it is reversely racist toward whites, or implies that African Americans are inferior? Does nobody else see this? I'm not saying that we should all call everyone derogatory things, yes what I said was wrong, but I know it's wrong, and even when I say it when I feel angry, I also feel bad. I would never actually treat a japanese that badly in real life. The thing is that people are missing where racism exists. Do you think if everyone believed that everyone was equal, that we would necessarily live in an ideal world? Think about it. Would housing segregation change? No. Would educational segregation change? No. Nothing would really change.
Ok, I think I will shut up about all this now. I am deeply sorry for all the people I have offended.
Bored.