### Author:  [@dare\_devil007](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dare_devil007)
#### Post date: [November 30, 2004, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-rant-of-mine/277269/1 "2004-11-30T03:00:35Z")
I am Korean. Please bear that in mind as I continue my story. I was sitting in history class, listening to my teacher talking about stereotypes and prejudice. Then, he got into talking about this “Asian stereotype”: parents are baby boomers who own a convenience/variety/grocery store whose kids are multi-talented and smart and perfect. Yeah, that’s pretty much what he said. And my ignorant “friend” (See \My Harry Potter Rant\) turned to me and said, “You Chinese people. You’re too smart.” And I was really confused because I’ve known this girl for about four and a half years now. So, I said, “I’m Korean…” She just rolled her eyes and replied, “Same thing.”
NO, Koreans and Chinese are NOT the same people. Our languages aren’t even alike!! Jesus Christ!! How culturally ignorant can you GET?!?!
I’m sorry if I’ve bothered anyone because I’m a teenage girl on a full-blown rant.
Your thoughts on this??
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### Author:  [@dare\_devil007](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dare_devil007)
#### Post date: [November 30, 2004, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-rant-of-mine/277269/2 "2004-11-30T03:03:47Z")
D’oh! The link for my HP thread didn’t work. If you’re really that bored, here it is again: [a href=“[http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=288796](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=288796)”\>Dare\_Devil007\_'s Rant on Ignorant Christians Who Say Harry Potter is Evil.[/a]
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### Author:  [@dare\_devil007](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dare_devil007)
#### Post date: [November 30, 2004, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-rant-of-mine/277269/3 "2004-11-30T03:10:12Z")
[a href=“[http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=288796](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=288796)”]Dare\_Devil007\_'s Rant on Ignorant Christians Who Say Harry Potter is Evil.[/a]
:smack:
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### Author:  [@Dante](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dante)
#### Post date: [November 30, 2004, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-rant-of-mine/277269/4 "2004-11-30T03:12:32Z")
Yep, she’s an ignoramus, all right. 'Course, she’s a teenager. I didn’t know about the wide variety of cultural and linguistic differences between asian peoples when I was a teen. Ignorance isn’t a crime, per se. **Willful** ignorance on the other hand, should be punished severely by raining countless blows to the head and shoulders, which you will administer due to your proficiency in various martial arts. 😃
Also, if you’re in America, tell her that “all you Canadians are the same”. See what she says.
On preview, maybe you should use the handy coding buttons… 😉
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### Author:  [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)
#### Post date: [November 30, 2004, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-rant-of-mine/277269/5 "2004-11-30T03:16:19Z")
> [@dare\_devil007\_](#):
>
> [a href=“[http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=288796](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=288796)”]Dare\_Devil007\_'s Rant on Ignorant Christians Who Say Harry Potter is Evil.[/a]
>
> :smack:
[Dare\_Devil007\_'s Rant on Ignorant Christians Who Say Harry Potter is Evil.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=288796)
Fixed your link.
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### Author:  [@dare\_devil007](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dare_devil007)
#### Post date: [November 30, 2004, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-rant-of-mine/277269/6 "2004-11-30T03:16:40Z")
OMG, thank you. I suck at HTML… 😃
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### Author:  [@Yamirskoonir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yamirskoonir)
#### Post date: [November 30, 2004, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-rant-of-mine/277269/7 "2004-11-30T03:19:01Z")
My co-worker, reading this thread over my shoulder, says:
> [@Korean Co-worker](#):
>
> I concur.
We’ll often be sitting at the front desk of the establishent we work at, and someone will come up and start speaking to him in Chinese. He’s very patient about it every time. I say he should learn to say: “Fuck off! I’m Korean” in Cantonese AND Mandarin. 😛
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### Author:  [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)
#### Post date: [November 30, 2004, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-rant-of-mine/277269/8 "2004-11-30T03:23:57Z")
> [@dare\_devil007\_](#):
>
> OMG, thank you. I suck at HTML… 😃
Use the buttons above the Message box. No need to do that coding yourself. 😉
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### Author:  [@dare\_devil007](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dare_devil007)
#### Post date: [November 30, 2004, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-rant-of-mine/277269/9 "2004-11-30T03:30:02Z")
Boy, am I ever blind…
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### Author:  [@7\_up\_yours](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/7_up_yours)
#### Post date: [November 30, 2004, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-rant-of-mine/277269/10 "2004-11-30T03:31:05Z")
Interesting…
I’m Chinese, and one time, I was mistaken for Korean. Of course, this was in a Seattle bus station, so who knows if that had anything to do with it. 😕
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### Author:  [@liirogue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/liirogue)
#### Post date: [November 30, 2004, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-rant-of-mine/277269/11 "2004-11-30T03:31:21Z")
Any chance she might have been joking with you? Sometimes I will do that with my friends just to tweak them a bit. 😛
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### Author:  [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)
#### Post date: [November 30, 2004, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-rant-of-mine/277269/12 "2004-11-30T03:34:48Z")
Hank Hill: So, are you Chinese or Japanese?
Kahn: I’m Laotian! You not even know how to tell Laos from China? Stupid redneck!!!
Hank: Well, are you Chinese or Japanese?
Kahn: :smack:
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### Author:  [@AwSnappity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AwSnappity)
#### Post date: [November 30, 2004, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-rant-of-mine/277269/13 "2004-11-30T03:36:22Z")
My linguistics professor was talking about how Mandarin is a tonal language, and she looked at this kid and said, “I can’t replicate the tones, could you do that for us?” And his face turned bright red and said, “…I’m Korean.” Heh. Poor kid.
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### Author:  [@LilyoftheValley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LilyoftheValley)
#### Post date: [November 30, 2004, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-rant-of-mine/277269/14 "2004-11-30T03:43:26Z")
I don’t see what the problem is, **dare\_devil007\_**. Why didn’t you just take her down with a bit of karate?
😉
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### Author:  [@dare\_devil007](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dare_devil007)
#### Post date: [November 30, 2004, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-rant-of-mine/277269/15 "2004-11-30T03:43:35Z")
Poor kid…I mean, random Chinese tourists sometimes come up to me and shove their cameras into my hands and point at the CN Tower (Yes, I am Torontonian 😃 ). But, they’re not being ignorant, unlike my student friend who **knows** I’m Korean. Sheesh… :rolleyes:
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### Author:  [@dare\_devil007](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dare_devil007)
#### Post date: [November 30, 2004, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-rant-of-mine/277269/16 "2004-11-30T03:44:38Z")
Oh, and another thing. Korean martial arts is known as “tae kwon do.” 😛
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### Author:  [@LilyoftheValley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LilyoftheValley)
#### Post date: [November 30, 2004, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-rant-of-mine/277269/17 "2004-11-30T03:44:50Z")
I don’t know how I missed **Dante** ’s post with the same joke, only better. I previewed, really I did. :smack:
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### Author:  [@The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Devil_s_Grandmother)
#### Post date: [November 30, 2004, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-rant-of-mine/277269/18 "2004-11-30T03:49:48Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#):
>
> Kahn: I’m Laotian! You not even know how to tell Laos from China? Stupid redneck!!!
You have to humor us poor Americans. Half of us grew up with short white people playing Asians in the movies. Some different percentage of us think Joel Grey is a typical Korean because we saw _Remo Williams the Adventure Begins_.
Ok, I’m kidding, but I can’t tell the difference between honest, decent Swedes (I’m a 1/4 Swedish) and them fishy-breath Norveegians (The Devil’s Grandfather is 1/2 Norwegian) I’m not going to easily tell the difference between Vietnamese and Mungs. Koreans, oddly, I can usually pick out of an Asian crowd. No, I don’t know why I can distinguish that one group from the others.
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### Author:  [@dare\_devil007](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dare_devil007)
#### Post date: [November 30, 2004, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-rant-of-mine/277269/19 "2004-11-30T03:52:19Z")
Dare\_Devil007\_'s whole family can tell who’s Korean and who’s Chinese. Dare\_Devil007\_ sometimes cannot and is considered a disgrace to her family because she refuses to be a doctor and wants to be a crime scene investigator after university. 😃
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### Author:  [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)
#### Post date: [November 30, 2004, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-rant-of-mine/277269/20 "2004-11-30T04:03:29Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#):
>
> Hank Hill: So, are you Chinese or Japanese?
> Kahn: I’m Laotian! You not even know how to tell Laos from China? Stupid redneck!!!
> Hank: Well, are you Chinese or Japanese?
> Kahn: :smack:
Hank: So are you Chinese or Japanese?
Kahn: I live in California last 20 year, but first come from Laos.
Hank: Huh?
Kahn: Laos. We Laotian.
Bill: The ocean? What ocean?
Kahn: We are Laotian. From Laos, Stupid. It’s a landlocked country in Southeast Asia. It’s between Vietnam and Thailand, okay? Population 4.7 million.
(blank stares from Hank, Dale, Boomhauer,and Bill)
Hank: So, are you Chinese or Japanese?
Kahn: Doh. (shakes head, digusted)
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