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| Jarel Diglot Groupie Turkey Joined 4325 days ago 57 posts - 77 votes  Speaks: Turkish*, English Studies: Italian, German | Message 9 of 13 13 March 2014 at 3:41pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Sadly bigotry is running rampart all around the world since the begining of this millenia. And it goes hand to hand with fellow friends; xenophobia, racism, discrimination, fanaticisim and sexism. That is not the case only in Korea but all around the world. Internet has much to do with this. First, it did let us be able to see what's there in their brains of the people who we never had to see before; ones who lived in distant neighbourhoods or cities. Seconds and more important; there is a huge wave of rage and hatred growing all around the world. New ultra capitalistic global world order created two generations of people who have access to every knowledge of mankind via their phones and computers which has no prospect for future. As i see it, there are around a billion young people on earth at the moment who has %0,01 chance to become "somebody" yet they are growing up watching and admiring sucessful and good looking "celebrities". That much hatred combined with anonimity of internet creates amazing amounts of hate speech. For those people anything that doesn't grant you instant superstar status or enormous amounts of money is useless and stupid. For them there are no ladders to climb or no paths to walk. Everything should be theirs instantly because they simply "deserve it". Language learning therefor is useless because they don't want to understand other people, they just want to "beat" other people, become better than them and rule them.
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| sillygoose1 Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 4635 days ago 566 posts - 814 votes Speaks: English*, Italian, Spanish, French Studies: German, Latin | Message 10 of 13 13 March 2014 at 4:36pm | IP Logged | |||||
Well, without getting too off topic, I've heard quite a few and have seen a few negative things about immigrants in Sweden myself. It's not really fair to say someone is or isn't normal based on their stance on political issues, to an extent. Of course racism and discrimination can be negative, but it's also part of human nature. It will never go away. But, it shouldn't necessarily be ignored/brushed off easily. Edited by sillygoose1 on 13 March 2014 at 4:39pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6596 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 11 of 13 15 March 2014 at 2:15am | IP Logged | |||||
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| Leurre Bilingual Pentaglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5424 days ago 219 posts - 372 votes Speaks: French*, English*, Korean, Haitian Creole, SpanishC2 Studies: Japanese | Message 12 of 13 15 March 2014 at 4:59pm | IP Logged | |||||
This does kind of derail the discussion a bit. Perhaps Jiwon could give more specific examples of what he experienced, but the site he went to and a bunch of similar ones include posts which could not by any stretch of the imagination be considered simple ranting. Regarding the content you linked to, I'm not sure that one needs to accept racist posts, 'all foreigners are dogs and the Africans are all monkeys' calibre attacks as 'attacks on privilege,' most especially when the groups in question (in the case of 일 베 this ranges from women to left-leaning political ideas, to foreigners...) are hardly privileged groups in the country/society. I'm not sure one needs to 'accept' rants on privileged social groups either. So yes I think this is unnecessarily sidetracking the discussion. Edited by Leurre on 15 March 2014 at 5:01pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6596 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 13 of 13 15 March 2014 at 5:32pm | IP Logged | |||||
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It was about the non-privileged groups' right, though. Their ranting about the privileged ones is NOT the same thing as what you described. As I tried to demonstrate, the ranting of men about women is very different from the ranting of women about men. And it was specifically about ranting in minority spaces, which privileged people should enter with caution. Edited by Serpent on 15 March 2014 at 5:35pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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