Monday, February 2, 2009

Journal Question 2


I want to talk about Korean's personality because many people who are from other country misunderstand Korean's character. Korea is wonderful country, and people who live in Korea are also wonderful. They have positive mind, good patriotism, and etiquette. But, Americans do not think like that. They think Korean have negative mind, hasty personality, and selfish character. It is not true, and it is just few people. Some people who have weird personality have been shown American, so American believes that they show. Because of the reason, many other country's people dislike become friends with Koreans, but Koreans can be a good friends. If American or people who come from other country get Korean friends, the Korean friends would believe and trust them anytime. In Korea, there is a lot of word about friends. It means, from long time ago, many Korean have thought that friends are important. So, Korean has tried to be friendly. Also, Korean would like to help other people even they have helped animal. For example, Korean ancient did farming to survive. When they harvested, they left a last harvest on top of the tree for animals. And, Korean can respect their elders. In Korea, there are many things for elders such as seats, lines, and service groups. In addition, when Korean take a bus and subway, eat some food or walk on the load with elders, elders must be first. Korean's personality is from their ancient. Nowadays, through development of transportation and communication, everyone can see Korean's life easily. There is much information that some are correct and some are wrong. But, the most important thing is experience that meet Korean personally. If you have negative sight about Korean, your mind would be changed.

2 comments:

Anna said...

I had no idea that Americans tend to have such negitive veiws of Koreans! I love my Korean friends. I think you are right, in order to have a god opinion people must make a personal investment in the culture!

ch said...

I had a Korean roommate in college and we got a long well. I never thought of her as selfish or anything like that. Maybe you've had bad experiences with Americans?

But I agree that it's important to not judge a culture based on one or two experiences.