08-14-2010, 05:34 PM
Well I can kind of see why. The percentage of them liking Japan is probably higher now than ten to twenty years ago.
Its kind of some Japanese attitudes, too.
My boyfriend is Korean.
And one time we went to a party for international students. Our two Japanese friends joined us.
I met another Japanese guy, and was just chatting while my boyfriend was playing beer pong and talking to his senior Korean friends.
I told him I came along with my boyfriend and two friends. The guy pointed at my Japanese friends and asked if that was my boyfriend. I said no, pointed to who was, and explained he was Korean.
The Japanese dude called him "Josenjin"...Ack can't romanize it right, but that rude term it is for calling a Korean in Japanese nowadays rather than calling them "kankokujin"...and the guy said other insulting things. Kind of stupid really, seeing how he was only what, 170 cm and my boyfriend was more muscular, and 181cm...
My boyfriend wasn't happy, and when his father later found out the first thing he asked was, "did you kill him?"
I got a lot of Japanese friends who didn't mind me dating one of their own, or anybody else...but the moment I fell for the Korean one, I got a lot of shit from them.
(ironically enough, one of our Japanese friends introduced us.)
However, going back on subject
I don't normally blame Koreans for disliking them, but they are becoming openminded about the Japanese more. Its going to take awhile for those old wounds to heal, but I imagine the percentage will be even higher in the next 10 years, maybe.
Coffee prevents me from killing you.
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