From: wjin@cs.uh.edu (W. Woody Jin)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.korean
Subject: Re: Corporal punishments & wife beating...
Date: 21 Jan 93 17:14:13 GMT
Organization: University of Houston
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In article <1993Jan21.021223.8724@news.acns.nwu.edu> phantom@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (James Choi) writes:
>
>>You can create an Utopia there.  Then after you have
>>created such a perfect government, come back and enlighten
>>rest of us mortals how the society should be setup :)
>>
>>Andrew Sung Hyun Kim
>
>According to Mr. Woody Jin (aka Cow Lover) Korea is heading straight to
>Utopia thanks to all the recent changes it is going through.
>
>James Choi

There will be no utopia on earth.
There is an another famous joke among the programmers :
  " If you fix one bug, it will create two bugs,
    if you fix those two bugs, it will create another four bugs,
    if you fix those four bugs, it will create antoher eight bugs, ...
    ... and so on, and so on "
Human-beings have been improving their civilization and culture by
solving their problems at hand. Whenever one problem is solved, it always
created some other problems.  

And current situations is the result of such procedure:
    We have to worry about polution, which our ancestors did not.
    We solved how to cure pest, but AIDS came out.
    Atomic War, .....
    Lincoln freed black people, but death rate of the young black people(US) 
    still exceeds that of soldiers in Vietnam War (according to News Week),
      ....etc etc....
----
I have never ever said that Korean education system is good
(Yes. One of the good points, I still think,  is respect of teachers).
In fact, there are so many problems in there. 
What I opposed to was James's misleading prejudices against Koreans
    (should I repeat them again ?).

I hated "BanGong DoDuck" class (I don't know anyone who liked that 
class -  Does this class still exist ? ). 
In that class, we were forced to have misleading concepts against
communist countries (especially North Korea).

It is interesting that there are some people who have still have that
sort of misleading prejudices against some culture on this soc.culture.* net.
Why do they subscribe to those news groups then ?
I can understand that people may have some misleading prejudices against
some other culture. I think that I also have those to some other countries,
like Brazil, South Africa, ...etc. But I don't want to know all about them,
and that's beyond my ability at this moment.

But if you subscribe to this or other soc.culture.* news groups,
  why don't you open your mind ?  
If you have some prejudices, why don't you try to know what causes the problem 
  by discussing about the real problems hidden inside (using facts not false
  conceptions, which Andrew Kim emphasizes) ?
What will be the solutions, and what other problems those solutions 
  will create ? .... etc, etc.

We are not wasting our time, just to make enemies with each other or just
to create word games which will create another word games.
I think that we are here to compensate each other.

I don't know much about Korean culture, economy, politics. 
I don't much about Korean-American culture either.  
And I learn something from other netter's informative articles. 
And I often change the misconceptions that I had.

Even though I am unhappy with James's opinions in his recent postings
(Everyone makes mistakes. I HOPE it is his mistake).
I think, I also learned something in his previous articles.


Bye.



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