Korean women protest discrimination against mixed couples, children
CVK
Stars and Stripes reports that a group of Korean and Korean-American women have come together to appeal to Korea’s National Assembly to pass anti-discrimination laws that would make it illegal to discriminate against Korean women married to foreigners and the children from those relationships:
This week, about 75 Korean women from 12 different countries gathered in Seoul to talk about these issues. They are asking President Roh Moo-hyun and the National Assembly to consider passing an anti-discrimination law to combat what Edwards says is unfair treatment toward Koreans who marry citizens of other countries. The group also hopes the law would stop discrimination against Amerasian children, who have parents of mixed races.
The three-day conference was organized by the Korean-American Women’s Association of the USA and the National Association of Inter-cultural Family Missions. Representatives from both groups, along with Edwards, presented a letter to the National Assembly this week requesting the law.
Edwards said she couldn’t name any tangible or systematic Korean custom that discriminates against women who marry American men. Instead, she said, it’s more a feeling that women like herself are looked down upon, “treated as second-class citizens,” for marrying outside their nation and race.
Amalgamait wrote:
Korean women are so fcking ugly, I dont see who would want to marry them anyway!
Posted 21 Oct 2005 at 5:46 pm ¶
the hip hapa wrote:
Why are Koreans such monoracial racist punks? They think that Pilipinos and Southeast Asians are “dog people” and mixed folks as “impure half-breeds”!!
Don’t hate us because we actually RESISTED being completely Christianized by white missionaries, and mixed folks are much more well-rounded, aware, and conscious enough to decolonize their minds than these monoracial know-it-alls.
Posted 22 Oct 2005 at 11:47 pm ¶
tony wrote:
^Wow, obviously he hasn’t heard of Sung-Hi Lee.
Posted 23 Oct 2005 at 5:45 am ¶
Lyonside wrote:
Re: Amalgamait - *makes shooing motions at Troll*
Re: hip hapa - 1. nice generalizations there about ALL Koreans. Racism is everywhere. 2. “mixed folks are much more well-rounded, aware, and conscious enough” - just because one is mixed doesn’t mean that they are better in any way (or worse), more or less aware/ conscious. Awareness and understanding are LEARNED traits, not inbred. And while, yes, I agree that being visibly mixed can force someone to confront racism sooner than others, it still is not a golden path to enlightenment. Bottom line: You can’t pull your group up by pushing other groups down.
Posted 24 Oct 2005 at 12:34 pm ¶
Gigi wrote:
The worst problem with korean men is that they know that if korean women were free to have sexual relations with other races they never go back to them. koren women don’t know what real sex is because they never get the chance to try it but some day it will be in the open and the men will have to accept their sexual handicap.
Sorry guys but masturbation is the horizon for you if your women ever get the gots to try.
Posted 31 Oct 2005 at 7:56 pm ¶
the hip hapa wrote:
^agrees with Gigi
I can recall a great quite from a fellow mixed friend:
“Sticking to your own race is like encouraging inbreeding.”
The whole “racial purity” mentality has driven human beings to do atrocious things to each other worldwide. Eugenics much?
And why do East Asians totally hate on Southeast Asians and Pilipinos? I’m not even going to bother opening THAT can of worms..
And Tony, I am a woman. The proctologist called…….he’s found your head.
Posted 01 Nov 2005 at 4:10 pm ¶
kang_a_ji wrote:
This forum is full of lewd and irrational generalizations.
hip hapa: It’s true that some East Asians may look down on Southeast Asians due to economic and cultural reasons, but obviously not every East Asian feels that way. In Seoul, in particular, many married couples are mixed including Southeast Asians and Koreans. Also, travel to Southeast Asian countries is soaring and interest in new cultures is quite trendy (especially Indian and Thai).
Gigi: You surely can’t believe that all Korean men are worse at sexual relations than other races. Have you slept with every guy in Korea? I’m sure you haven’t… I haven’t either, but I know for a fact that my Korean husband is quite skillful in bed (at least as good or better than any caucasion I’ve slept with).
You both may feel that others are being indecent and racial, but you seem to have exactly the same problem. Ignorance spawns generalization which in turn creates racism.
Posted 02 Nov 2005 at 6:30 am ¶
Paul wrote:
I support the initiative of these Korean Women, The Korean people are beautiful and there women are very kind and hardworking.
If a Korean woman chooses to marry a man that is not korean and then there children are not treated well, I have a problem with that. We all in the end are not purebreds as we think. I think the persons that impress me most are those that are responsible, hardworking and are generous.
If a person thinks they are better just because of their race or talents they have a serious maturity problem and need help fast before stupidity destroys them.
Again Korean women don’t put up with racism or prejudices, you are on the right side of the fight.
Posted 08 Nov 2005 at 12:35 am ¶
Orca Winfrey wrote:
“Edwards said she couldn’t name any tangible or systematic Korean custom that discriminates against women who marry American men. Instead, she said, it’s more a feeling that women like herself are looked down upon, “treated as second-class citizens,” for marrying outside their nation and race.”
WWAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!
But, will the law also cover endemic discrimination against Korean men as espoused by Gigi and the hip hapa here?
Posted 15 Nov 2005 at 3:38 pm ¶
Jen wrote:
Amalgamait,
Frustrated with massive rejection by Korean girls? Or judging by your name, feeling a little defensive with your half-breed origins? Your insecurities are showing. It’s embarrassing.
Posted 19 Nov 2005 at 5:57 pm ¶
Sunny: South Africa wrote:
Firstly let me respond to that gentleman, Amalgamait if i can actually call him a gentleman,no…on second thought i won’t call him a gentleman co’s
he obviously has’nt learned any manners when he was growing up,have you? you dirty mouth asswipe!! how dare you make such cruel remarks
about Korean woman,just who the hell do you think you are buddy?
Speak like that in front of me and i’ll slap you to hell and back,i’m a foreigner and my wife is Korean we have been together for 3years already
and i’m a respected man both in Korea & in South Africa, i have friends from all over the world and i have never heard such crap from anyone
like i heard from you,so words of wisdom to you buddy grow up and keep such dirty opinion’s to yourself,ok? Korean woman are fantastic people like any other woman in the world,maybe you have a problem finding a woman regardless of where she come’s from,no shit with an attitude like yours how could you find someone.
Posted 13 Dec 2005 at 9:10 am ¶
Sunny: South Africa wrote:
The only problem i find with Korean people is that they are to money power driven and that most older woman like making degrading remarks to anyone who they feel is beneath them even their own race,but on the other hand is that taking place all over the world? sure it is,i come from
South Africa and while South Africa has i think “nothing in common with Korea” there are still some people in South Africa who hold on to the fact that they are the most succesfull country on the African continent and i’m asame to say so because it’s my country and my people but it’s the truth
so many South African people are also having swollen head’s these day’s think they are just to good to be part of Africa but they are wrong i think,
we are part of Africa and we should be proud of that and always remember our dark history,so should Korea they to had a terrible past and i guess what i’m trying to say is that we got to respect everyone in this world not just what you know but what you don’t know this is what makes you a bigger person.
Posted 13 Dec 2005 at 9:26 am ¶
Dr. Phlip wrote:
“And why do East Asians totally hate on Southeast Asians and Pilipinos? I’m not even going to bother opening THAT can of worms..”
Actually, you bother opening that can of red herrings with your every post on this board. Along with wholesale APA male-bashing.
Fact is though, 66% of US-born Pinays marry WHITE MEN though. Fact is - they are the snobbiest White-worshipping Asians around! So, quit projecting your own hatred for East Asians upon East Asians and face your own hypocritical music! You’re a broken record that’s gotten veeryyy old already…
Posted 15 Dec 2005 at 12:33 pm ¶
Coty wrote:
I can recall a great quite from a fellow mixed friend:
“Sticking to your own race is like encouraging inbreeding.”
That is absolutely the dumbest thing I think I’ve heard in the last…day (there’s a lot of nonsense on the web). Seriously though, the reason incest is taboo is because it leads to abnormalities, deficiencies and other complications in offspring. “Keeping it in the family” - not quite as literally - promotes cultural growth. What you are partaking in is an assault on cultural traditions and the common bond that many Americans don’t seem to understand. Our diversity and lack of an official identity, has many consequences, but we’ll only start to see the negative in the less immediate future, I believe.
Posted 16 Feb 2006 at 3:09 am ¶
Anonymous wrote:
Be you Korean or any other race, humans will naturally be attracted to other humans. It’s just a process of nature that takes more than just mere observation to understand and we must realize that when this happens there’s nothing to fear
Posted 18 Apr 2006 at 1:45 pm ¶