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CNN's primetime host thought he was hitting all the rights notes (because that's what they always think at that network, no matter how cookie cutter and disturbing recalcitrant they have become over the years to real political reporting) in this screed last night.
(The video you can view here.)
From 50 seconds on, it was a total trainwreck, made a disaster by Cooper and his network's truest downfall: "False equivalency disease."
We all know and exasperate when we see that full sad condition time and time again, pushed by every strategist and politician on the nutty party's side, from the asylum unit throughout Capital Hill to "Take any order" slime snakes like Ron Christe always on the "The Ed Show" whenever, wherever.
That disease however is worse on Time Warner's beloved news channel, exhibited fully by their 10 PM darling last evening.
In his (of all the titles in the world) "Should Be About The Truth" commentary moment, Cooper didn't care about that truth and in labeling just how someone on the left was just as terrible and video manipulating like our "insane clown of the year candidate."
"And that's how ideologues think, both on the left and the right," said our journalism man of our times! "Andrew Breitbart is conservative, but as I said, there are liberals online and on TV who do the exact same thing. They cherry pick the facts to prove their argument, not the facts that reveal the truth."
"Those hypocrite liberals" is probably what one causally political independent was saying last night watching, believing that Cooper is the most trusted voice in cable TV because he doesn't at all seem like an ideologue and he hosts everyone! Yet Cooper gave them the typical "Oh, it's the left too" that we know and love without even bothering to list just one, ONE, example of ANY prominent left site doing anywhere near what Freightfart did.
Not the Huffington Post, not TPM, not Media Matters, not FDL, and finally, not the Daily Kos. None.
Not a single left site that Cooper indicts so freely and recklessly to some politically casual worshipping viewer of his last night could he name.
What makes it so sad is that Anderson Cooper truly believes in his heart that he and his colleagues at CNN are quality journalists. And he most likely also feels, when he sees Rachel Maddow and Keith Olbermann's success leap MSNBC Primetime (and only MSNBC primetime) past his sorry network, that both rivals cable networks primetime lineup is filled with ideologues instead of actual "factism" as he says.
Ironically, he got that "Factism" term in his self-righteous screed last night willingly from David Frum of all lying enablers. But I guess he didn't bother to do his "fact checking" on that one either I guess.
The tired, banal excuse of lumping the left with the likes of Andrew Freightfart despite no concrete evidence to fully exhibit that isn't the main problem with neo-CNN. It is the fact that they, just like Cooper, fully believe that they still practice world class appropriately journalism, figuring what they do is the ideal way to go!
So, until their numbers and credibility continue to proportionally go down where it finally makes them break (or some celebrity publicly calls them out on their network with 3 times the damage of what Michael Moore did Wolf Blitzer and Dr Sanjay Gupta in the run up to his "Sicko" film), they will continue to believe that their "journalism" is thee journalism on cable TV.
They will continue to have John "Milquetoast" King give the "wonderful likes" of Erick Erickson the same platform as the incomparable Amy Goodman because of their arrogant indolence. And they will also be proud of King saying something like "Breitbart sparks debate on racism" while continuing to believe they are fine and dandy journalists. (Note: After getting slammed on Twitter , they altered the title to "Breitbart Post Ignites Race Debate.")
Most importantly, they will continue to have Mr. AC360, whether in the studio, in the gulf, or anywhere else he thinks he should be, go around and slam those imaginary evil video docketed people on the left, just like their ideological opposite Mr. Freightfart.
Our Jokenalism 2010, because it sure isn't journalism.
]]>Village stupid elitist at it's very worse, courtesy of the Bi-polar one and Alan Greenspan's wife:
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You get that ladies and gentlemen. "Union leaders were so dumb," and "Blanche Lincoln was running against the establishment."
Let me repeat that last sentence for you, because I know it is hard for you to digest and not spit something out on your computer screen when you heard and read it.
"Blanche Lincoln was running against the establishment."
Only in the Village can the Villagers can say something so extraordinary like that. Only in the Village.
What makes this so appalling is that Mitchell and Matthews give the viewer their personal pathetic feelings of love for their Beltway friend Blanche, and how the White House should have protected her at all costs so their friend won't have to leave the "House of Lords", I mean, the Senate. And they don't want to be dejected to see their friend go because of the White House not giving her the type of backing they gave their other dear friend, Arlen!
And their feelings of anger at the White House (especially the wife of Alan Greenspan) at the Obama Administration is made furthermore stupid by the fact that the White House did, you know, back and support Lincoln.
Obama did robo calls for her. But don't tell that to these Beltway socialites and their preference to never have a story leave their deluded and sickening Village perspectives.
(By the way, what's the point of Obama going down there when you have Bill Clinton still be an influence there in the first place? That clearly made the difference.)
It's people like this that make me marvel at people like Digby, Atrios, and Media Matters who digest this elitist nonsense every single day, and document it in the full detail.
And they still can't leave Al Gore alone, it you didn't notice.
Mitchell: "And you have to wonder if Al Gore had not trusted his instinct, and (if) Al Gore brought him (Bill Clinton) in 2000.
Man, they just won't stop hating that man. It's like their life's calling card, "To hate Al Gore we must in order to be apart of the Beltway."
Oh, and one more thing Bi-polar Chris Matthews. Joe Sestak, if you forgot, beat the establishment in Pennsylvania just a month or so ago. Sestak doesn't need Bill Clinton to win Pennsylvania, but your little Beltway arrogant mind always want the outsiders to follow your tired narratives.
If you ever needed a guide to how the Villagers think, I hope this post was a paradigm for you that was difficult to swallow.
]]>After assessing over the situation from a variety of perspectives , it is without a shadow of a doubt time for Richard Blumenthal to be delivered a heap of penitence from a wide variety of people, including myself.
Most importantly however (because the campaign of the World Wrestling Entertainment group won't even dare bother to do so), the apologies to this man and the fierce blacklash that he has faced from this highly sensitive issue should come first from Raymond Hernandez, spokesperson Diane McNulty , and the rest of the New York Times .
Just from a young fledgling journalist's perspective, seeing the New York Times have another embarrassing moment highlights how much of an utter hell hole journalism has become in America (and continues to diminish by the second), and how mind-numbingly depressing it can get witnessing it.
But with how long they took to show any remorse for James O'Keefe and Andrew Breitbart scribing their ACORN story for them, I don't expect any forthcoming pronouncements of "We messed up, we apologize to Attorney General Blumenthal" from the folks at the Grey Lady.
That shouldn't exonerate them however, and it certainly shouldn't exonerate the Tweety one either.
The last few days, Chris Matthews has been on this utterly bizarre "Blumenthal has shamed veterans" crusade that he even idiotically had on the potential opponent for the Connecticut AG in the general election this fall. How he and his producers thought it would make more sense to have Rob Simmons on the air yesterday instead of actually doing the reporting the AP and Greg Sargent did to follow the story speaks to how sad this situation is for "news reporting" in America.
Of course, with how he gets on his blowhard nature, I don't expect the Tweety one to immediately do a 180 and say "I eat my words, I'm sorry Mr. Blumenthal" either. And that further exacerbates the problem of what used to be called journalism in this country, the ability to hold one's self accountable for one's own mistakes.
Even Ed Schultz (and I love Ed Schultz) hasn't given Blumenthal a second look here. And though he has nowhere acted to the ridiculous level of the Times, or the guy that comes on right before him on MSNBC, he too (along with the great Bill Press as well) jumped on Blumenthal without giving the needed retraction that the situation calls for now. I mean, both him and Press listened to and agreed with Ron Christe of all nutcases, for goodness gracious sake!
All that I can say is this: Richard Blumenthal, I'm sorry.
I'm sorry for all the half jokes that I made on Tweeter, and thinking facetiously of how Ned Lamont needed to replace you on the ballot. I'm just sorry at my profession basically making your life probably a living hell the last few days.
I just hope that the Tweety one, or Eddie, or Mr. Press give some apology to Richard Blumenthal. Because it sure as hell won't be coming from the New York Times anytime soon.
Unless they have a rare, and needed, humbling moment of maturity.
]]>In the last development between tension between Wikileaks and Facebook (as well as Facebook's latest possible disturbing actions), the social protocol giant took down the "fan-generated" Wikileaks page that had 30,000 people on board and had been operating for a few years. For the moment however, the Wikileaks "Official Fan Page" on Facebook is still up.
So unsurprisingly, Wikileaks tweeted about that 30,000 fan-generated page being taken down out of nowhere.
In its usual snarky tone that can either make you love them or hate them, Gawker and their writer for this story in Adrian Chen points out the Facebook and Wikileaks acrimony from the past, highlighting the following episode in 2008.
In short as you will see from the link, a Swiss bank named Julius Baer wanted to sue someone at Wikileaks for posting stolen documents of one of its clients. Since Wikileaks owners are basically specialist in being incognito and anonymous (up until the recent interviews with Julian Assange), Baer decided that suing an officer on its then Facebook fan page in 2008 was the right way to go.
In the course of the trial, Julius Baer subpoenaed an officer of a Wikileaks Facebook page, mistaking him for an officer of Wikileaks itself. According to Network World, Julius Baer's lawyer sent the following to the guy—a Stanford student named Daniel Matthews:
Wikileaks lists you as an officer of the company on its Facebook page. As an officer of a defendant in this action, my client is entitled to serve you a copy of the summons and complaint pursuant to Rule 4(h)(1)(B) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.
And Gawker's Chen writes from the thought that Matthews was possibility not very happy with having to represent Wikileaks instead of true owners of the site like Julian Assange:
Since Julius Baer wasn't able to get hold of a real Wikileaks employee—scattered worldwide as they are—some random Stanford student had to go to trial on their behalf in a high profile lawsuit. (He was listed as the "Stanford representative" of Wikileaks on the page.) He was not pleased. And the possibility of Facebook users being sued simply for belonging to groups probably gave Facebook headaches, too. (The suit resulted in Wikileaks being shut down for a bit by a judge, before the bank ultimately withdrew their case.)
But when you click on that link, it tells a far different story painting Wikileaks in a much better light while the banker as one with serious problems.
The judge rescinded his earlier decision of favoring the bank's yearning for a restraining order on Wikileaks. He (who is unidentified in the article) altered his original verdict thanks to pressure from civil liberties groups explaining how the major problems raised by his first decision.
Given a better understanding of the issues in the case, the judge this weekend rescinded the Dynadot agreement and the temporary restraining order. He also pointed out that federal courts are unable to take cases between two foreign nationals, and that he "may well lack subject matter jurisdiction over this matter in its entirety."
Not only that, but that Stanford student's anger is directed to not to Wikileaks, but at the Swiss bank:
So why was a case between a Swiss bank and an anonymous group of wiki operators ever tried in a US court? One reason was that Dynadot was in California (though Dynadot had nothing to do with the content in question). Another was that Julius Baer said that Daniel Matthews, a Stanford graduate student in mathematics, was an "officer" of Wikileaks. And how did they know this? They read it on a Facebook page.
Matthews, who points out that he is only the "Stanford representative" for Wikileaks, says he knows nothing about the internal operations of the group, the owners of the site, or even what software they use to run it. He is an "officer" only of the Facebook group in question.
In a statement to the court, Matthews went on to take full aim at Julius Baer. "The crowning irony is that Plaintiffs—who purport to be shocked, shocked that Wikileaks has promised anonymity to leakers—are a Swiss bank and its Cayman Islands subsidiary," he said.
Gawker's Chen writes that Facebook had "headaches" over this and that it is a reason why they have gone to this length now to take down Wikileaks fan page (since it's Official page is still very much up).
But what "headaches" is Chen talking about if the case was then thrown out? And even if they do have "headaches", this is just a raw example of the digital information democratic age that we are currently in at the moment.
And we all know that with how "Mark Zuckerberg Inc." has become a billion dollar invention, Facebook faces legal headaches almost everyday, especially in regards to all of the rapid and sometimes controversial charges they have made over the last few years with the protocol. In addition, was this fan page necessary to even delete? It wasn't like Facebook was receiving lawsuit after lawsuit after lawsuit about this page anyway from what it appears.
In short, Chen's article in my mind is kind of a smear towards Wikileaks, an attempt to paint the organization as narcissistic complainers who are truly about themselves, are creepy, and really aren't the full "truth-tellers" they claim to be.
It was very indolent of Chen and Gawker to just languidly say, "The suit resulted in Wikileaks being shut down for a bit by a judge, before the bank ultimately withdrew their case," when there are far more details towards that case.
And in my mind, it makes Gawker appear as not taking affinity, or full respect, of the impact Wikileaks has made in the last few weeks thanks to their usual very snarky tone.
(From TWD, have a great day folks, and thanks for even reading.)
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Enough is enough.
When I saw this tweet from Alan Colmes last night on a thought from Alan Grayson passed to him, it was one of only two resolutions I could see for this ugly situation to end appropriately:
Though I'm not sure if Grayson and his office will actually do this since I haven't heard back from his press secretary yet after emailing him, it would do us all good if this is the end result.
Or, with how this shameful story has evolved, the only other thing that should be acceptible from Eric Cantor is to show penitence for his unsurprisingly but still nevertheless very shocking and disturbing actions.
Nothing else.
It's already deplorable enough that the Sad Obnoxious Party won't take (or are alarmingly slow) any responsibility for their tea partiers dropping coffins, throwing bricks, or leaving chilling phone calls in Democratic officers.
But what Cantor (and Jean Schimdt, more on her in a second) did by trying to join his party in the "victim circle", and burden America with another false equivalency nonsense for the media to play with is too much to take.
It is highly dangerous what Cantor and his press office are continuing to do by now changing every bit of his "high noon talk of a loon" moment. And everyone out here should be slamming him for feigning seriousness, when all he was doing was just an irrational, angry attempt at winning a game.
It's always a game with him and his pathetic party, no surprise there. But the limits of how low they go is already pass a point where something further toxic and horrible can happen thanks to their lack of maturity.
A handful of extremist actions have been speculated on Democratic Congressional figures this week. But to create that stunning balance effect that our corporate media always is glad to run with, the SOP has Cantor's ever evolving insanity and a phone call to Schmidt's office that though was very harsh, did not call a threat on her.
There was no powder or drop dead message that Anthony Weiner received yesterday. There was no obvious signs that family members could get attacked like Louise Slaughter received. And outside of a brick being thrown at a Virginia GOP office that we don't know anything else about, there has been nothing. (And frankly, who knows who really did that one?).
But we're all cognizant of the fact that Eric Cantor further disgraced himself by playing the victim card (with him mentioning that he was Jewish too by the way), accusing Democrats of political opportunists in such a serious situation, and then proven to be brazenly disingenuous and a fraud.
This is just an unbelievably, unacceptable action that Cantor has committed in front of the American people, and especially to his fellow Congressmen on the other side of the isle. Cantor must be politically humiliated in some way, and that will only come with a public apology or leaving office for good.
Enough is enough.
Then again, how many times have we said that line in the past, only to see us say it once more?
(From TWD, have a good rest of your Friday and thanks again for even reading.)
]]>Today, despite being vindicated time and time again over the last few months, ACORN continues to spiral towards bankruptcy.
The New York Times spilled the details of how a conference call led by the organization's CEO Bertha Lewis will talk about filing for Chapter 7 (unless it has already happened already). And barring a miraculous influx of ostentation coming in, the nutty Right will have officially scored a win at the expense of the poor of the nation (if they haven't already with how publicly ridiculed the organization has received).
But the most revealing thing about that report today was not the fact of ACORN's impending bankruptcy. Rather, it was the fact that it came from the New York Times. Why is that a salient characteristic?
Because this is the same newspaper that won't admit publicly that it facilitated in ACORN becoming poor in the midst of fighting for……the really poor.
As Media Matters has documented as astutely as they always do, the New York Times was among virtually everyone else (outside of MSNBC to their rare credit) to get swept up in McDisguise Wannabe Phone Idiot's foray into being a pimp by writing down every word they got from whenever he was interviewed on the Fixed Propoganda Comedy Clown Channel.
They believed he was in his pimp attire every single time he entered an ACORN office, only to have that fact not be a fact at all.
As we noted last week, the New York Times, and specifically its public editor, Clark Hoyt, managed to emerge among the losers in the ACORN pimp hoax story. Why? Because the Times, both last year and this, erroneously reported that James O'Keefe had worn his outlandish pimp costume into the ACORN offices last summer.
But that was just bogus right-wing spin.
Worse, when confronted with the facts by blogger Brad Friedman, the Times' Hoyt agreed the pimp costume was not worn, but then refused to recommend that the newspaper correct the record.
Now ACORN has asked simply that the NYT just simply act like mature grownups, like Marc Ambinder did yesterday with the fake memos (and unlike the idiots at Hackio).
The New York Times continues to refuse to state the obvious — that O'Keefe deceived the public, specifically by editing in "b-roll" of his absurd pimp costume and more broadly by misrepresenting what ACORN organizers do. This despite the clear admission by O'Keefe co-conspirators Hannah Giles and Andrew Breitbart both being caught on tape saying he never wore the pimp suit in any ACORN office. Despite the findings of the Harshbarger report. Despite Breitbart's admission that the pimp get-up was just a marketing gimmick.
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That still has not prompted an apology yet from Hoyt or anyone else at the Times.
So proud and arrogant is the New York Times, that they not only didn't offer a retraction right after the truth was out, but they haven't even bothered to admit their folly to this day.
And even worse is the decision to do an article on ACORN's wallow into fiscal irrelevance without acknowledge their role in making it happen.
Update: But wait a minute, just wait a minute………I see that after weeks of requests, the New York Times has finally decided to apologize to ACORN just late tonight . Well about time Mr. Hoyt:
I could not reach O'Keefe — who is facing federal criminal charges of tampering with a Democratic senator's phone in a different attempted sting — or Giles. But I am satisfied that The Times was wrong on this point, and I have been wrong in defending the paper's phrasing. Editors say they are considering a correction.
Even so, Hoyt's apologize is still really poor in my mind. He shows penitence for ACORN only in that paragraph of a lengthy type up, as it is surrounded by a myriad of idiotic "balance" and even some finer pointing still at ACORN for being in the position they are in.
It is truly amazing how immature and childish some of the people in important positions in the American news world are.
And with an indifferent mindset that he and the paper displayed, Hoyt is another example why some can be justified in not shedding any tears for the demise of old, arrogant, corporate newspaper media.
Unless of course, they listen to whatever Fake pimp telephone guy tells them.


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The highest African pub is at the top of Sani Pass, the road to the uKhahlamba Drakensberg Park.
UNESCO is lavish in its description of the uKhahlamba Drakensberg Park, which encompasses South Africa's highest mountain range. We quote the organisation's words because we couldn't have said it any better. This KwaZulu-Natal World Heritage Site, it states, 'has exceptional natural beauty in its soaring basaltic buttresses, incisive dramatic cutbacks, and golden sandstone ramparts.'
A spine stretching some 150km long, the most scenic sights in the park carry equally evocative names – Cathedral Peak, Giant's Castle and Monk's Cowl are just some.
A particularly renowned attraction of the uKhahlamba Drakensberg Park is the Amphitheatre, a wall of rock 5km in length and 1 000m high. From its domed summit at Mont-aux-Sources spill the spectacular Tugela Falls. Brushed with a dusting of snow in the winter, the 'berg', as the site is affectionately termed by locals, is picture-perfect.
This is a place to exercise the body, fuelled with crisp, clean air. Hiking, rock climbing and fly-fishing are popular activities. There are several game parks in the area where a wide variety of African antelope such as the large eland, can be seen, and the bird life is nothing short of magnificent, with the bearded vulture or lammergeier often circling in the sky above. Flora includes the indigenous protea, rare cycads and ancient tree ferns.
For 4 000 years or so, these precipices were home to the indigenous San. Though the inhabitants have largely disappeared from the area, they have left their mark in the form of fascinating rock art. Some 30 000 paintings in 600 caves and overhangs have been recorded in the uKhahlamba-Drakensberg Park, yet another reason the area has earned World Heritage Site status.


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20 But "if your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him [something] to drink; for [by] doing this, you will heap up coals of fire upon his head." | 20 On the contrary: "If your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink. In doing this, you will heap burning coals on his head." |
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When you type NTBackup /? at a CMD prompt, you receive:
You can perform backup operations at the command prompt or from a batch file
using the ntbackup command followed by various parameters.
ntbackup backup \[systemstate\] "bks file name" /J \{"job name"\} \[/P \{"pool name"\}\] \[/G \{"guid name"\}\]
\[/T \{ "tape name"\}\] \[/N \{"media name"\}\] \[/F \{"file name"\}\] \[/D \{"set description"\}\]
\[/DS \{"server name"\}\] \[/IS \{"server name"\}\] \[/A\] \[/V:\{yes|no\}\] \[/R:\{yes|no\}\]
\[/L:\{f|s|n\}\] \[/M \{backup type\}\] \[/RS:\{yes|no\}\] \[/HC:\{on|off\}\] \[/UM\]
Specifies that you want to back up the System State data. When you back up the System State data,
all of the System State data is backed up, therefore, the /s switch does not apply.
Also, the backup type will be forced to normal or copy.
bks file name
Specifies the name of the backup selection file (.bks file) to be used for this backup operation.
A backup selection file contains information on the files and folders you have selected for backup.
You have to create the file using the graphical user interface (GUI) version of Backup.
/J \{"job name"\}
Specifies the job name to be used in the log file. The job name usually describes the files and folders
you are backing up in the current backup job as well as the date and time you backed up the files.
/P \{"pool name"\}
Specifies the media pool from which you want to use media. This is usually a subpool of the Backup media pool,
such as 4mm DDS. If you select this you must not use the following switches: /A /G /F /T.
/G \{"guid name"\}
Overwrites or appends to this tape. Do not use this switch in conjunction with /P.
/T \{"tape name"\}
Overwrites or appends to this tape. Do not use this switch in conjunction with /P.
/N \{"media name"\}
Specifies the new tape name. You must not use /A with this switch.
/F \{"file name"\}
Logical disk path and file name. You must not use the following switches with this switch: /P /G /T.
/D \{"set description"\}
Specifies a label for each backup set.
/DS \{"server name"\}
Backs up the directory service file for the specified Microsoft Exchange Server.
/IS \{"server name"\}
Backs up the Information Store file for the specified Microsoft Exchange Server.
Performs an append operation. Either /G or /T must be used in conjunction with this switch. Do not use this switch in conjunction with /P.
Verifies the data after the backup is complete.
Restricts access to this tape to the owner or members of the Administrators group.
Specifies the type of log file: f=full, s=summary, n=none (no log file is created).
/M \{backup type\}
Specifies the backup type. It must be one of the following: normal, copy, differential, incremental, or daily.
Backs up the Removable Storage database.
Uses hardware compression, if available, on the tape drive.
Finds the first available media, formats it, and uses it for the current backup operation.
You must use the /P switch to designate a device-type media pool when you use the /UM switch
so that Backup searches for the appropriate type of media (for example, 4mm DDS).
When you use the /UM switch, Backup will search the following media pools for available media:
Free pool, Import pool, Unrecognized pool, and Backup pool. When available media is found,
the search will stop and the media will be formatted and used without prompting you for input.
This command is not applicable to tape loaders and should only be used if you have a stand-alone tape device.
You cannot restore files from the command line using the ntbackup command.
The switches will default to what you have already set using the graphical user interface (GUI)
version of Backup unless they are changed by a command line switch: /V /R /L /M /RS /HC.
For example, if hardware compression is turned on in the Options dialog box in Backup,
it will be used if /HC is not specified on the command line. But if /HC:off is specified on the command line,
it will override the Option dialog box setting and compression will not be used.
If you have Windows Media Services running on your computer, and you want to back up the files associated
with these services, see "Running Backup with Windows Media Services" in the Windows Media Services
online documentation. You must follow the procedures outlined in the Windows Media Services online
documentation before you can back up or restore files associated with Windows Media Services.
You can only back up the System State data on a local computer.
You cannot back up the System State data on a remote computer.
If you are using Removable Storage to manage media, or you are using the Remote Storage to store data,
then you should regularly back up the files that are in the following folders:
This will ensure that all Removable Storage and Remote Storage data can be restored.


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We are trying to figure out what this is... |
Here is a link that might be useful: Link to photos of toysoldier
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Well, I thought of German but I see pat. pending mark on it so American made so that would be Jones- hollow cast lead?? Barclay which had a base & I think were cast iron Manoil, Gray Iron (theirs were cast iron) Marx were made of tin so doesn't look like tin to me. Auburn made them of rubber. So Jones would be my 1st choice then Manoil or Gray Iron would be next. Hope this helps. Jones did make Gr. soldier & some other war type things including wounded soldiers & some with "port arms" whatever they are. Lineol made soldiers & Gr. soldiers also so maybe by them. I'm looking at pages 414 & 419 of Schroeder's Collectible Toys 5th edition. So that's a start. |
I believe it's a mold....open it up...un do the screws and post pictures of the inside... I think it's a chocolate mold. Linda c |
Looks more like a policeman than a soldier to me. He's got a star on his chest. |
The hat makes him look like a French gendarme. |
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DALLAS–Dallas Market Center and ART have announced the retailer, product designer and sales representative finalists for the 25th ARTS Awards, which will take place during the Dallas Total Home & Gift Market in January. The manufacturer finalists were previously announced.
The finalists for the different categories are:
Lauren Miller – Codarus
Chas Lassoff – CRL Lighting Agency
Greg E. Lewis – jdouglas
Cherry Bernish – In-Detail
Richard Alan – Richard Alan & Associates
Rose Rovick – Western Reps
Lucha Bott – Lucha Bott Sales
Doug Glassman – The Glassman Group
Sally Carrocino – Sally Carrocino
Beatriz Ball – Beatriz Ball Collection
Mandy Shanahan – Phillips Collection
Nikki Chu – Villa Home Collection
Paul C. Grϋer – Paul Grϋer Design
Casa Studio Europa – Mexico D.F., Mexico
Multi Luminaire – Pointe-Claire, Quebec, Canada
Norburn Lighting & Bath Centre – Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
Furniture Store
IBB Design Fine Furnishings – Frisco, Texas
Jonathons Coastal Living – Fountain Valley, Calif.
Judith Norman – Dania Beach, Fla.
La Maison Interiors – Scottsdale, Ariz.
Leon & Lulu – Clawson, Mich.
Home Accents Store
24e Design Co. – Savannah, Ga.
duh – for garden and home – Pensacola, Fla.
Seaside Chic – Venice, Fla.
Bella Dimora – Bee Cave, Texas
DH Collection – Fort Worth, Texas
Room 22 – Oklahoma City, Okla.
Bianco – Los Gatos, Calif.
bungalow furniture & accessories – Scottsdale, Ariz.
The Tin Roof – Spokane, Wash.
Lighting Showroom
Pace Lighting – Savannah, Ga.
Southern Lighting Gallery – Augusta, Ga.
Wolfers Lighting – Allston, Mass.
Grand Rapids Lighting Center – Grand Rapids, Mich.
Hinsdale Lighting – Hinsdale, Ill.
Northtown Lighting Center – Appleton, Wis.
City Lights – San Francisco, Calif.
Crescent Lighting – Kirkland, Wash.
Illuminations by Design – Littleton, Colo.
Outdoor Lifestyle Store
Bay Breeze Patio – Destin, Fla.
Petitti Garden Center – Oakwood Village, Ohio
Stone Creek Nursery – Hesston, Kan.
The Garden Gates – Metairie, La.
Orchard Nursery & Florist – Lafayette, Calif.
Rolling Greens – Culver City, Calif.
Accent Furniture
Avenue B – Dallas, Texas
Phillips Collection – High Point, N.C.
Selamat Designs – South San Francisco, Calif.
Worlds Away – Memphis, Tenn.
Area Rugs
Company C – Concord, N.H.
Dash & Albert – Pittsfield, Mass.
Delos Rugs – Calhoun, Ga.
Loloi Rugs – Dallas, Texas
Surya – Calhoun, Ga.
Home Accents
Arteriors – Highland Village, Texas
Foreside Home & Garden – Vacaville, Calif.
GO Home – Flushing, N.Y.
Interlude Home – Trumbull, Conn.
Uttermost – Rocky Mount, Va.
Waylande Gregory Studios – Houston, Texas
Home Textiles
French Laundry Home – High Point, N.C.
Peacock Alley – Dallas, Texas
SFERRA – Edison, N.J.
The Bodrum Group – New York
Villa Home Collection – Vernon, Calif.
Lighting Fixtures
Corbett Lighting – City of Industry, Calif.
Currey & Company – Atlanta, Ga.
Eurofase – Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada
Van Teal – Miami, Fla.
Visual Comfort & Company – Houston, Texas
Outdoor Living
Janus et Cie – Carpinteria, Calif.
Seasonal Living – Austin, Texas
Skyline Design – Miami, Fla.
Woodard – Coppell, Texas
Portable Lamps
Barbara Cosgrove Lamps – Kansas City, Mo.
Flambeau – Baton Rouge, La.
Jamie Young Company – Gardena, Calif.
Light & Living – Oxnard, Calif.
Thumprints – Little Rock, Ark.
Montes Doggett – Greensboro, N.C.
Rosanna Imports – Seattle, Wash.
Vagabond House – Sierra Madre, Calif.
Vietri – Hillsborough, N.C.
Wall Décor
Benson-Cobb Studios – McKinney, Texas
Paragon – Albertville, Ala.
Ren-Wil – Montreal, Quebec, Canada
The Oliver Gal Artist Company – Hollywood, Fla.
Wendover Art Group – Clearwater, Fla.
The ARTS Awards will be presented during a gala event on Saturday, Jan. 18 at the Hilton Anatole Hotel. The finalists will now submit a digital presentation to the judges' panel, which has been previously announced as including Ronda Rice Carman, founder of "All the Best Blog" and author of Designers at Home: Personal Reflections on Stylish Living; Ignaz M. Gorischek, vice president of store development at Neiman Marcus; Dr. Nancy Kwallek, director of the interior design program at the School of Architecture at The University of Texas at Austin; Kris Lindsey, previous president and COO of Kinder-Harris and product and process development consultant for Paragon; and Gale C. Steves, creator of Open House Products, a home industries consulting company for retailers and manufacturers.
Digital submissions vary based on category and may consist of product development, marketing, merchandising or company differentiation examples. In November, the panel of judges will convene in Dallas for two days to review each individual or company's submission. Once all components of judging are complete, a designated accounting firm will tabulate and secure the scores until the winners are announced in January.


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Wildlife Research and Protection: A Sampling of Current Foundation-funded Efforts
Part of one of the world's largest intact temperate ecosystems, Grand Teton National Park is home to a set of predator-prey systems that have remained largely unchanged for thousands of years. To preserve those unique relationships, park biologists utilize Foundation support to perform long and short-term research studies on a variety of species and biological trends. Research findings influence management decisions and conservation plans, with the ultimate goal of preserving Grand Teton's magnificent wildlife for the enjoyment of future generations.
Study: WolvesBack To Top
Informing Conservation Strategies: What Delisting Means for Grand Teton's Wolves
In 2012, the gray wolf was removed from the federal endangered species list and classified as a trophy game animal in northwest Wyoming, where annual fall wolf hunting now occurs (outside of national park boundaries). Although it is illegal to hunt wolves in Grand Teton, wolves that den there regularly cross park boundaries into state hunting territory. Because of the sensitive nature of pack dynamics, hunting losses can have potentially far reaching implications for pack social structure and stability as well as reproductive success. To document these effects and other aspects of wolf biology used to inform future conservation strategies, park biologists perform a variety of strategic research projects, including the tracking of pack movements via GPS radio collars and telemetry flights, ground-based surveys, and other innovative methods that are funded by Foundation donors.
Study: Bighorn SheepBack To Top
Mitigating New Threats to Bighorn Sheep
In 1969, mountain goats were introduced in Idaho and have since expanded into Grand Teton. They now threaten Teton Range bighorn sheep, a native herd whose protection is one of Wyoming's and the park's highest conservation priorities. If left unchecked, a robust population of invasive mountain goats could rapidly transform Teton flora and fauna forever. Park staff is initiating new research and monitoring to implement goat management strategies to protect native bighorn sheep and ecosystem function.
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Training Volunteers Who Make Grand Teton Safer for All
Tasked with facilitating safe interactions between visitors and animals, Grand Teton's Wildlife Brigade members are part ambassadors, part compliance officers. This valuable group of volunteers manages roadside "wildlife jams," patrols picnic areas for unsecured food, and shares educational information with visitors. By funding resources for topnotch volunteer training and everyday equipment needs, the Foundation ensures the Brigade's effective operation year after year.
Migration ResearchBack To Top
Identifying Crucial Migration Corridors
Building on the success of their discovery of the famous Path-of-the-Pronghorn, park biologists have continued by studying red-tailed hawks, osprey, bald eagles, moose, elk, bison, and bighorn sheep movements. Current research is focused on a mule deer herd that is believed to migrate west to Idaho in order to provide land and wildlife managers with information critical to species' long-term conservation.
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Bear Boxes: Keeping Bears Wild and Visitors Safe
Each summer, Grand Teton's 1,000 frontcountry campsites fill with visitors from near and far. With the grizzly bear population increasing in the park, it is more important than ever for campers to properly store food and toiletries. Bear-resistant food storage lockers, or bear boxes, are high-quality metal enclosures, spacious enough to fit your largest ice chest. People can open them with ease, yet bears cannot, making these boxes an incredibly effective tool that keeps bears from associating humans as a means to access food.
By funding a bear box, you can help the park succeed in outfitting each of its drive-up, frontcountry camping and picnic sites with these durable lockers. They also make great gifts! Recognize your friends, colleagues, or family members in a unique way by dedicating a box in their honor. We'll send your gift recipient a teddy bear along with information regarding the importance of bear boxes and the location of yours. Plaque recognition is available.


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Blackfork Labradors
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TLDR – Being a Foreigner in Korea
Ok, so this is a question that was really difficult for us to answer. We were asked this week if foreigners are treated any differently here in Korea, to which we definitely say yes. As for how differently we're treated, that really depends on the foreigner you're talking to.
We personally happen to have good experiences in Korea. Everyone is really nice to us. Nobody's been terribly rude, and we haven't experienced any outright racism. People greet us with smiling faces, give us great service everywhere we go, and overall give us a fantastic experience of the country, one that we hopefully convey in our videos and website. However, we do make it a point to try and speak Korean as much as we can, to compliment the meal (in Korean) when we visit new restaurants we like, and make an overall effort to be "Korean".
But the way we've been treated isn't the same as how others have been treated. Some people do have terrible stories of experiences of racism and discrimination. Since we have never experienced this directly, and have only heard it from a friend of a friend, or via a comment on a blog, we can only comment on people's anecdotes and the patterns that we've noticed.
Without meaning to sound arrogant, we believe that our experience in Korea is great not just because of our personalities, but also because of how we look. No, we're not supermodels, but we fit a very nice archetype of what a "foreigner" should look like according to what Korea has been taught. Martina is a blonde haired and blue eyed girl. Simon is a tall guy. We're both white. We're not noticeably overweight. We're married and smiley. We are, more or less, what Korea wants in English teachers.
A lot of our friends can't say the same thing. We have good friends, good teachers who are good people, who have been denied teaching jobs because they're too Asian looking, too overweight, too not-white. We have good friends here who are black who have had some Korean people walk up to them and try to touch their hair or skin. Not all the time, mind you, but occasionally. We've have overweight friends who have been told outright by co-workers that they're fat, too fat, that they should go on a diet (and they intend it to be a matter-of-fact "I'm helping you" kind of way).
But, again, we can't comment on this accurately, or make a video about it, because it's not our experience. We're lucky here, we know, and our experiences here have been fantastic. As foreigners, we aren't treated poorly here at all.
There is one thing, though, that makes us cringe occasionally, and that's being pointed out as foreigners. Many, many times, when we're walking outside, we'll hear people (especially kids) say in Korea say "Oh! Weigookin!" which you might have seen from our Korean Like a Pro videos. We weren't making something up there. We're often pointed at and called foreigners. It's not insulting, but it's kindof saddening at times. Yes, we know that we're not Korean, but being reminded so often that we're outsiders who are not part of your culture, is quite sad. We think this must be especially upsetting for those "foreigners" that have settled in Korea with a Korean husband or wife and are now, for the most part, Korean. It feels at times like we'll always just be floating on the surface, no matter how long we stay here, no matter how many videos we make about how much we love this place. We'll always just be outsiders looking in, and we'll always be reminded of this fact.
We know that being called a foreigner in public isn't necessarily malicious. It's a genuine expression of shock. After all, a lot of Korean people do have dark hair and eyes, and so when they see Martina's blue eyes and blonde hair, it's surprising, not something they're used to. When they see Simon in his giant form (there aren't many Korean people as tall as Simon) and his big red mohawk, it's not surprising to us that they're surprised by us, and naturally they express their surprise. This surprise is amplified in small towns who perhaps have never met someone from another country.
We think it just feels especially weird for us because we're from Toronto, which is exceptionally multicultural. Never in Toronto did we look at someone and call them a foreigner. The thought never crossed our minds. Everyone in Toronto is just from Toronto. No one's an outsider even though we all look different and are perhaps from different countries before we came to Canada.
The only sense of outright racism that we sensed was from the senior citizens, who occasionally, barely ever really, might give us stink face and mumble something about foreigners while looking at us. Or maybe it's not stink face: maybe that's just their faces from being so old. But, you know, we don't really hold it against old people for being racist in Korea. Old people seem to be racist everywhere. Hands up if you got a racist grandma or grandpa! Don't lie! You know you've cringed and/or almost got beat up from your grandparents outrightly insensitive comment made in public! Guys? Anyone? No?…oh…
Anyhow, overall, we love it here in Korea. TL;DR – We have had a fantastic, fantastic experience, as have many of our friends. Are foreigners treated differently here? Yes, but not so terribly that it would in any way negate our experience.
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I so want to know where you buy your accessories, they are SO CUTE!!!
Lol, green hair? Yes, I probably would stare and want to touch them. But only cuz it would be Daesung, most probably. :P
Sorry I dont have anything…contributing to say. :P -
Thanks, That was good
omg the racist elders… i tell myself that they can't help it, it was acceptable when they were growing up, korea has a very homogeneous society, etc, but it still floored me when i told my grandpa that i was studying stem cells, and he told me i should discover that changes people's skin color from black to white >< i was like grandpa… you know that's NOT ok, right…?
i can't really speak to being a gyopo in korea (koreans abroad… although i'm not sure that i count under that definition, since i wasn't born in korea to begin with); it's been a while since i've visited, and most of that time i was insulated by my family. but there was one time when i was with my grandma, and we ran into one of her neighbors, and there was the usual round of introductions
"this is my granddaughter"
"oh, is she visiting?""yes, from america" "oh that's why she has such lovely curves :D" (nota bene: on the scale from keira knightley to beyonce, i am definitely closer to keira knightley….) the thing i heard most, though, was how wonderful it was that my parents hadn't neglected my korean education (i suspect if i hadn't been reasonably fluent, they would've treated me with a lot more disdain) -
Idk about racist grandparents because i only have 1 and i rarely see her so i have never really heard a racist comment from her and idk about my other grandparents because they have all passed away but my parents are lol for some reason they seem really against the idea of me or my brothers marrying outside my race.
I really want to move to Korea but i heard they can be pretty Racist especially to black people, and that's a scary thought for me. I was picked on as a kid for my religion and i'm afraid to be in another similar situation like that. Do you guys think I should still give Korea a try?
Can i ask, what if you're an asian? Like non korean tho. ( i'm vietnamese-australian) would it be weird?
Whites talking about racism… twilight zone.
I'm lucky — I don't have a racist grandma!!!
My grandma rocks! I think she's even more "modern-minded" then my mum! lol -
Haha, everything you guys have talked about for South Korea applies to China as well~
Well I better head to the gym big time before I move to Korea this year, I am overweight, but this should motivate me to start shedding some pounds before I constantly hear how fat I am. I am sure students will point this fact out on a regular basis.
I'm currently living in Taiwan, and like you guys, I've had pretty much the same experiences-although I've never been outright pointed at and called "foreigner" (at least I haven't caught anyone doing that), I have gotten stares and looks-mainly because I am a young woman, and most foreigners in Taiwan are older men. My Taiwanese friends and I have also joked about how I also don't look like the stereotypical foreigner-I DO have blue eyes, but I'm a brunette with copper highlights (so yes, the "orange" hair is another stare point-I have caught Taiwanese people staring at my hair), I am extremely pale (I'm a vampire, like Martina),plus I'm 5'1", so I'm around average Asian girl height-in fact most of my Taiwanese female friends are taller than me. So most of the reactions I get are ones of surprise, mainly from my height, since foreigners-even the girls-are supposed to be "giants".
I've wanted to be a teacher in Korea too, but now I'm kinda scared. I'm not over weight, I'm thin but I'm of Mexican decent and I have pretty dark skin. Does this mean I won't get a job as easily as say a white person? :/
Yeah, my Grandma was racist as heck. She literally wouldn't let my mom attend her Senior prom because she was going with a black guy. This was the seventies. My mom only got to go when she brought a white guy home for Grannie to approve of (who was actually gay, but Grannie didn't need to know that ;-D). She also frequently referred to any and all Asians as "Japs".
Oh, Racist Grandma. You'd have a heart attack if you knew I was going to South Korea.
hello guys i wonder if you know about what korean boys like in foringers girls, i wonder this because im a overweight person..im not realy english as you noticed do you understood what i tried to say? thanks anyway
hello there i wonder such i´m a overweith person is that a bad point of beuty to korean guys?
I've seriously considered teaching in Asia when I finish college for the last 5 years, but now I'm hesitating because I've heard so many terrible things about what happens to overweight people there/the way they're treated. I'm an overweight 22 year old woman – would they reject me outright/treat me like crap?
I never got beaten up because of a comment made by my grandma, but that's because I was a kid back then. She died long ago, but I still remember that she was really racist. My mother is too. So I really know what you mean!
Hello my name is Mark Snippe from Holland and i want to now more about dating in korea and is it easy to date a korean woman as a foreigner ?? do korean women find foreigners attractive ?? maybe you can make  a segment about this ? i am a long man and i have blond hair do the like this in Korea ? thank you i love your site :)Â
Nice Video :) I'm a European NZlander and I recently came back from a short visit to Seoul, I totally had a moment when waiting for a friend at the top of a pretty empty subway exit. This old guy walked past me like super close and totally glared at me strongly in the eyes. I just think he really wanted to see my blue eyes lol
great video!:D how many years or months it takes to learn korean??is it very difficult?
I had the same experience in Japan, I'd get the "can I touch your [fill in the blank]?" a lot, especially being the only black girl with braids in my head there. Sometimes it got annoying and upsetting being stared at but yeah, it wasn't every day people were just gawking and it wasn't everyone and it really was good to keep in mind their lack of contact with someone like me. I neve really took it as racism because we were all just foreigners. Now living in the heart of Texas…there's a den of political incorrectness and racist grannies.Â
I visited my Caucasian friend in Seoul this past spring. We were at Insa-dong, which was a really touristy area, and got yelled at by a random old lady for speaking English. My friend told me that it happened to her a couple times before. I just think it was ridiculous that we got yelled at at a place full of tourists and foreigners while the Koreans just watched and walked away.
 im a college student and got 3000 words to go on for the paper but didnt even start writing it cuz ive been watching this all day it's so funny
Sorry, but this is quite stupid.Â
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Koreans, in general, are quite cordial to the "white man" – perhaps partly because the "white man" knows English, which is a hot "commodity" in South Korea. However, I've heard of instances of Koreans not being too cordial to black or mixed Americans. But times are changing.
You guys probably heard of the Hines Ward story, right? He's the wide receiver from the Pittsburgh Steelers football team. It was really neat to see breakthrough in prejudices against other races and mixed races from the Korean point of view.
One thing I know is that being a foreigner, from what I hear, is not too bad. South Koreans have changed in their mentality to accept other cultures and races, even mixed races.
Doesn't hurt that thousands of American GIs are still stationed up there in the border.
We love our foreigners! Why am I talking like I'm full blown Korean? I am, but I'm more Americanized.Â
I gotta tell you guys I love your show! Keep going!
I think you don't have to worry too much about it. There always will be people who don't embrace the differeces everywhere. but never mind and i am sure you will be fine. Koreans have a tendency to get scared when it comes to speaking English. but in generall most people are quite friendly i would say. If you are gonna study at school (uni?) it should be way easier to hang out with other students. !! Good luck with your study and hope you have great experience there!! :) :)
I am a Korean who is living in England and have been to most of the western countries. Although what you've posted on here are majorly from your experience, opinions and from what you've heard from your friends etc, I just found it's kinda little bit exaggerated. Touching black people's skin in the public? Treating you better because you have a lighter skin than others? It sounds very 90s in Korea. Do you live in Seoul? My home is in Seoul and I visit there in every summer/winter vacation(I am a college student),  and I barely find any such cases you mentioned in Seoul. As becoming a global city, Seoul should be considered as an exception from the impression you got from living in Korea. In addition, I can't find it is appropriate that you try to compare living in Toronto to Korea. Since I've lived in Europe for several years, I saw/experienced many cases of segregation/glaring/staring at different races from the majority race  in European cities. That is because I am an Asian and have a different color from the whites, although the major cities such as Paris,London, Frankfurt etc can be considered as exceptions.  This is very similar to the cases in Korea that you pointed out, and I believe it's kinda hard to expect your life in TORONTO or Canada(an immigration country that has a short history) in Korea, which has much longer history and a strong identity as much as some European countries do. Lastly, I just have a little question that can you define ethnically what Canadians are? I presume the Koreans you just mentioned that called you an American is just because there are much more Americans they bump into than that of Canadians in Korea. I visit the US regularly and I cannot say the deep animosity toward blacks you find from a good number of white Americans or even from some of people in the western countries could ever compare to Koreans' curiosity toward them.Â
I think you are being too harsh at Simon and Martina here.
Toronto, or Canada in general is a very multicultural country and Korea is one of the most homogenous nations. Obviously most Koreans are not going to be experienced in being politically correct when dealing with different races compared to Canadians. Simon was merely pointing out the differences and not comparing the two to put Korea down. It is obvious they have good intentions and love Korea. And you have to remember you are a Korean visiting Korea so your experience will be different from non-Koreans visiting Korea.
I really don't think what Simon or Martina said is exaggerated. I had Korean friends living in Korea ask me questions that were just jaw dropping. Some of them were: do white or black people smell differently, do all white women have big chests, are all North Americans fat, are all white people hairy, and yes I've been asked if I've ever touched an afro or a black person's hair and how it felt. And yes they tend to have nicer views on caucasians over other races only because most of their experiences and views of different races come from Hollywood media.
The people asking questions weren't being racist or had malicious intention, but just purely curious since they have never had chance to be around foreigners close enough.They are just stating their and their friend's experiences and I think they have a very unbiased and honest perspective in many aspects and I appreciate them for that.
If anything, they have put more positive light to Korea than anything else I came across. -
They never suggested that any racism is worse in Korea than other countries… and even said they don't believe most of the reactions are racism but are genuine curiosity. Did you not watch the whole video? They did say they have had friends with some bad experiences and they all tend to be non-white or overweight.Â
I have seen a video of this black guy with dreadlocks that teaches on Jeju Island… at this festival this Korean woman did go right up to him and start touching his hair without asking… although that could be considered very rude he definitely took it as her being curious especially when she wanted to take pictures with him afterwards lol.Â
Simon and Martina obviously love SoKo… just because they admit they have heard of a few bad experiences doesn't mean they are overexaggerating, they barely mentioned anything negative and even said those instances should be taken in a more positive way ;)Â
Hello. Thank you for your opinion. I would like to point out that I've never written any words that is "overexaggerating" if you'd ever read what I originally posted on here again thoroughly. About blacks on my comment, I wasn't trying to defend Korea nor say that it's not worse in racism than anywhere around the world. Instead, I was trying to balance the point what they made, a view from whites, as I am a Korean who is living in Europe. In addition, I wanted to let bernadettee[: to know that it's kinda weird to generalize that Koreans do dislike blacks or anyone non whites. Perhaps, some are really prefer whites to another races, but that kinda people you bump into do not speak for all the people in this nation. You should come to Seoul and find it how the people in this city are globalised in such issues.  Like i said, I visit the US very often, and I wouldn't say white Americans or even African Americans are racists just because few of them have deep animosity toward the other racial groups. I am not telling you my opinions are absolutely right, yet I'd like to emphasize that some of the point of view from them as foreigners in Korea may have errors or may have distorted what the native people's general notions. The reason why people in Toronto never care anyone who has different color from them is just because they have a multi-cultural society, and Canada widely accepted immigrants from all over the world historically. That is same to the US, and I sometimes found it is such an ignorance that some people from these countries try to point out that the old history countries are too "homogeneous". It is obviously awkward to ask such liberal atmospheres  to the countries that have more than 5000 years history with a strong identity as it is not such immigration countries like the US and Canada that have only less than 500 years history.Â
I'm really glad to see this… I've been maaajorly freaking out because I'll be studying in Korea starting next month, and I'm going to stand out majorly because I'm half black (though relatively light skinned, I guess) and maaajorly overweight… so of course, I've been really worried about being in Korea because the average Korean is obviously a looot smaller than I am, and also we learned about Korean attitudes towards Blacks in my Korean Politics course (it's not really fair to say "Koreans don't like Black people." There are a lot of nuances, tbh)… what was the point of this comment again? Uhhm. Oh, yeah. Thanks for posting this! Perfect timing [:
When I visited Korea, I had a bit of a different experience. I'm actually Korean, but am adopted so all my life except 5 months has been in American culture. One day when I was there with my family, we went to a restaurant for dinner (Outback steakhouse – how un-Korean, I know. Don't worry, didn't only eat American food there), and the waiter saw a table with 3 Caucasians and one Korean and thought 'Yay! I have someone who can translate!' Little did he know that my Korean consists of poorly pronounced 'Hello' and 'Thank you'. Once he found out that his supposed ace in the hole wasn't really that, he fled. We felt so bad cause he looked like he was gonna cry! They sent another waiter who could speak English. There were times when I felt a bit like the outsider with double shame cause I couldn't speak my motherland's tongue (add to that how I'm abnormally tall for a Korean and was probably the worst dressed Korean around. Everyone seemed so nicely dressed!). However, don't get me wrong, I loved my visits there and I found the Korean people to be some of the most friendly people around. Sure there are going to be people who don't like differences, but that's going to happen everywhere there are humans. And I would almost rather have the direct, open staring than the smiling facade that some Americans put on to cover their racial prejudices.
Your last sentence is food for thought, Holly. I cannot STAND that cheerful face that tastes as nice as chocolate cake sweetened with aspartame. Whenever I go out with Spanish speaking friends and we chat, the older ones always have that "façade" waiting for us. If they had any guts at all, they would launch into their "speak American!" tirades that they only discuss with fellow racists. That level of brutal honesty you discuss is perhaps the better alternative!
t's really funny to see you guys speak Korean almost perfectly.(-: Especially we guk in(외êµì¸).
I have 2 funny stories. My brother-in-law is from El Salvador and the summer following my sister's wedding his family had a reception there for all the family and friends who couldn't come to the US for the actual wedding. So my family got to go to El Salvador. My mom and I have dark brown hair, blue eyes, and we both tan very easily. My other family members are basically super white, with blonde, light brown, or red hair, and they don't tan, they burn. Everyone stared at us because we were obviously foreigners, but whenever people at the hotels or restaurants needed to talk to us they went straight to my mom and me. My mom doesn't really know any Spanish besides hola and I only knew a little, not enough to successfully converse with anyone. It was explained to us that they assumed my mom and I were from Spain, because of our lighter skin and our eyes, and that my mom just remarried some white guy, getting his kids as part of the deal. haha
And my other story is that last summer my sister and I went on a trip to Europe offered by my school. That year the trip was to France and Spain. When we were in Paris, my teacher was getting pictures of us in front of the Arc de Triomphe. There was a group of some Asian ladies there, obviously tourists as well, and they started jumping into the picture with us and handed their cameras to my teacher so she could get a picture of them with us. We were all pretty shocked and thinking, "What just happened here?" It was weird, but amusing.
      I'm from a little country in Europe, last year I went working to another european country, and people can tell right away you're not 'one of them' even if you do look like them.
     the things you guys are telling and the comments I read can't even be qualified as racism judging by the things that personally happened to me in a country from my own continent, and when we're supposed to have (almost) the same cultural values :(. just saying-
Yeah, but these guys are putting a really, really happy cheerful spin on their experiences in Korea. What is ludicrous is when foreigners are excluded from certain establishments or activities because they are foreign. The thing that makes it particularly frustrating and galling is that there's not even a pretense or excuse; many Koreans seem to think it's just fine or their prerogative to openly exclude people because they are foreign and/or of a different race, they don't seem to understand that it's discrimination.
Koreans can be very welcoming to foreigners, particularly tourists. But they constantly want to put and keep people in their respective boxes, delineating "in" group and "out" group, "us" and "them." As much as the novelty of foreign status may work in the favor of a good-looking caucasian, he or she will constantly be reminded that he/she is NOT one of "us," the Korean people. And while that's fine for the visitor or the short-term dweller, it becomes hurtful in the long run.
Foreignness is not yet run-of-the-mill to Koreans. It is alternately intriguing and threatening, and you see inferiority/superiority complexes play out in the way Koreans relate to foreigners of different races and national origins.
My personal observation is that Koreans feel most comfortable and at ease with foreigners when they are reduced to benign token status, like harmless clowns or curiosities. I recall being with a Korean who gushed, "Wow, your Korean is so great!" I pointed out that our mutual foreign friend X spoke fluent Korean, which was much better than mine. He responded, "Yes, but his Korean is… too good. We feel a little scared when we listen to him. But your Korean is so cute, like a little child! I love to hear it!" Mm-hmm. My friend is threatening, because he can fully express himself and speak his mind. I always sensed that, but it was revealing to hear it stated openly.
I won't try to disagree or discredit any of the experiences you've mentioned here, but I will outright refute your opening sentence, that we're putting a spin on our experiences. Â Are you suggesting that our experiences have been bad and that we're lying about them, that we're intentionally falsifying our report of these experiences?
Some great observations! Â Having lived in Korea three years myself as a tall red haired ginger I have my share of stories to tell. Â One in particular was an elderly Korean lady trying to pick the freckles off of my arms.
hmmm, I wouldn't know about Korea or even Canada, but in my latin american experience I did have a racist grandmother xD I think it's more of an old world kind of thing, and her racism was towards black people, which now I remember and find curious because in here it's either dark skinned people or americans. (she loved white americans)
I'm thinking about it now and I have to say the whole pointing at people or looking at them and stuff (except for the touching darker skin thing, though here I guess it would be staring at asian eyes)Â I think can be found in any country. I guess it's less likely if you don't stick out as much, but the whole not hiring as an english teacher because they don't fit the stereotype is something I've only heard of in Korea. I also read somewhere that koreans and japanese people are less inclined to accept people even after they become "real" koreans/japanese because of their background. I also know people like that here that even after years of living here are still considered foreigners because of the way they look. I think its a sore spot in every country, no matter what they say (again, I wouldn't know about Canada)
I read somewhere else that having a foreign friend in Korea was like having a pretty accesory or something like that, I wouldn't know, but I did have foreign friends and sadly sometimes(and I've seen this in the US as well) instead of by their names we would refer to them by their country, just for fun.
I've had it happen to me as well, and while it stung a bit, it didn't bother me as I never had the intention of fitting in in that country. It must be tough for those who do. I guess it's something that they have to live with. makes me feel thankful for my foreign ancestors. -
My aunt and uncle lived in korea for 10 months last summer and I went to visit them. No one was ever rude to me, but many people would stop me and tell me that I am pretty and they want to give me a hug, I was once asked to have my picture taken with some young korean men which was a little bit akward. At first I was very startled and unsure of what to do, but I had it easy. My aunt has 3 children who are very young, they all have blue eyes and bleach blond hair, we were often stopped in the street by elderly people grabbing them and hugging them, or even just to say that they are cute. The worse thing that happened is when a couple requested some pictures with the children, and it ended up being a odd photo shoot type deal. By the end of their stay I know my aunt was frustrated and ended up being very rude to some people. I always try to be patient, and set clear boundries of what is and is not ok although it can be tough. I still love korea and it's people!