Katherine I think its time you scuttle along. Your comments haven't invoked any kind of thought for me. I appreciated your feedback but it seems like you are more negative. I have been living in Korea for almost a year. I have heard negative comments about me behind my back I have been stared at humiliated laughed and degraded in the classroom and outside. My house is the only place I feel at home and even there I have been violated. The only person who has my back and who truly cares about me is my girlfriend.
Korea is a wonderful place there is many opportunities but I truly live in a place that is so backwards with their way of thinking that most Koreans avoid coming here. Maybe that's why my friends don't come here to visit me even though I have been here for 11 months. I think I have a right to judge my situation because I am living in it.
I think you are being a little harsh when you say the only people who can be as they are are W.A.S.P.S White Anglo Saxon Protestant Males. 1. America was founded on All men are created equal. Men=all people.
2. I lived in Missoula which is a place that has so many lifestyles. If you don't like a lifestyle you ignore it and you don't care and you don't act out on your feelings if you are a rational person. I truly believe that all people are equal I have a respect for all cultures all people etc. but I have been through a lot just trying to find a way to live here. All I know about you is that you were in Whitefish. I know enough about Whitefish that its known as Conservative Yuppy Rich class society. Of course those people have no thoughts of poor or average middle class people.
Be as You are is a Kenny Chesney Song I like it. Also, in Missoula people truly accepted other people. I don't understand your comments and I think you need to personally move on or send me your website because its a waste of time.
do you understand me?
You have an obscure viewpoint and I think you need to look deeper into American values and also what you yourself care about because what you say is complete Bullshit if you ask me. I think you don't have a concept of what other people's situation is like so please Change your attitude.
Personally, you don't sound like a teacher to me I don't know anything about you but you haven't given me the chance even though I have tried to casually mention in my stories but you refuse to listen
Save me the trouble of reading a comment here unless its going to be useful such as an email address or your blog site I would like to see your perspective more clearly.
congrats you made a title of my Blog ~~~~
pish posh
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
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Open your mind and get a clue! Obviously my words DO make you think or else you wouldn't have written an entire blog about it. Your words have made me think--and in fact reaffirm some of my own beliefs. In response:
1. I have been to Whitefish 3 times in my life. Yes, it is yuppified, but i was simply a visitor so Whitefish is not where I'm coming from at all.
2. I lived in Missoula for 1 year, my 1st teaching job. I taught in the school district there--and there are plenty of racists--look how they treat the natives in MT!
3. I never said shit about WASPS. The white men I'm referring to certainly don't need to be Anglo Saxon, or Protestant.
4. I work w/ migrant farmworkers. Ever heard of them? They are the poorest segment of American society. I know a lot about how the phrase 'be as you are' just doesn't normally fly in America .
5. I have lived in 8 states-- Illinois , Wisconsin , New York , North Carolina , South Carolina , Washington , Idaho , and Montana . Intolerance is everywhere. Not sure why you never noticed it in Missoula b/c it's sure as hell there. (it being the WHITEST place I have ever lived)
6. Just because a country is founded on an ideal (all men created equal, blah Blah, BLAH) doesn't mean that ideal really exists. When they made up that line, we still had slavery and women couldn't vote, work, etc. Explain that.--no really, explain it to me.
7. In answer to your "Do you understand?" question--No, I don't understand you at all--hence the questions.
8. I am in fact a teacher--of ESL--most of my kids are Hispanic, w/ a few Ethiopians and Ukranians. I have a masters degree in Education. I have been teaching for 5 years in public schools.
9. My viewpoint is that of someone who has lived in another country and works w/ other cultures daily. I speak 2 languages fluently. My viewpoint may seem obscure to a person who doesn't see that much diversity, esp. if they grew up in MT. The whiteness of Missoula is part of the reason why I moved, though I did enjoy teaching there.
10. I simply don't like hearing any town, country, race, disparaged w/ so few words of praise for a great culture--different cultures are just that--different. You're in their country so it's YOUR job to assimilate to them,
11. I don't have a blog--I don't like to put my life on display. Especially being a public school teacher.
----Me dijo que hablas espanol entonces voy a decir que esto es la ultima vez que te voy a escribir. A menos que responderias en una manera aun mas negativo.
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