I'm Japanese. And now, it is known (at least in the Asian community) that Koreans and Japanese people do not get along, at least, politically. But why should this bother me?
A Korean guy who's in my class repeatedly says " I hate Japs. I hate Japs."; as if to tick me off. And no, I have never done anything to him. I have an episode where he comes into class during break and comes to me and my partner (we were working on a quiz a little overtime) and asks if the paper we had on our desk was the quiz, as he's in the same class next period. I gathered the paper up so that he wouldn't see, looked up, and said, " Yes,". He got all "offended" and glared at me saying " That's why I hate Japs," and walked away.
What?
First of all, how am I going to benefit by showing you my quiz, second, the teacher was right there, and third, you've already been caught THREE times because of cheating. I'm doing this for you and me, hon.
Few weeks ago, he comes up to me along with his friend and says he likes to eat Japanese food, that he would like to go to the restaurant my parents own (which serves Japanese food).
Huh?
What does this guy want from me??
He also says things that pretty much blames everything bad that the Japanese government has ever done (i.e. WWII) on me. I didn't even live in that age; nor did all the Japanese people even want to follow the government at that time. I know that Japanese people have blood on their past; but doesn't all countries?
From my point of view, Koreans and Japaneses should just suck it up and get along cause we're only one sea apart (which is like, what, a few miles away at the most closest part?) and we're really too alike, culturally and physically, to even be hating on eachother. In general, I hate the whole idea about hating someone because of ethnicity, sexual preference, etc. I would only hate people based on his or her individual personality or what he or she did, not because of a generalization. I have tons of both Korean and Japanese friends and I get along fine (except for those few...).
I've also noticed that Korean guys give me a harder time because of my ethnicity. There is also another Korean guy who was in my class last year. He was really rude and mean (no, not even teasing). But then he had a half-Japanese girlfriend and has tons of Japanese friends.
I'm not making them do this to me by saying rude and mean things about Korea or Korean people. In fact, I like Korean people and their culture, food, etc... There's many incidents where even Korean people think I'm from Korean descent (lol).
So it just doesn't make sense.
Have you ever experienced anything similar? How do you feel about someone hating of someone because of race/ethnicity?
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