Friday, December 3, 2010
The Color Pink
This is a bit random, but as I was strolling the hall, I realized that there is a distinct lack of pink as of late in the wardrobe of boys. When I first got to Korea, I noted that adults and kids would freely wear pink regardless of gender, and from a homophobic country such as the USA, this was odd to me at first. Recently, I see less and less pink. At first I thought it was the season, but I began to wonder if maybe this is the influence of more 'concerned' native speaking teachers. I even hear the kids spouting the word 'gay' on occasion. Any thoughts?
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wow. ive been reading your blog and you seem like a really cool person. I'm glad you are having fun in korea.
ReplyDeleteit sounds like you have had quite the adventure. I am new to korea and am looking for some cool people to hangout with since I've been having a hard time making friends since my school is small and my co teachers are much older. there is one young person but she's got a korean bf so she never seems to want to hangout. anyway, just trying to make new friends. I don't have a blog just fb so if I don't seem to much of a freak to you please shoot me an email on fb or whatever. itd be nice to talk to someone who lives here and is friendly and open minded.
-Rebekah
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ReplyDeleteI sure hope that's not the reason! English teachers there in SoKo -- not all of whom are really cut out for teaching, let's be honest -- inflicing their personal biases on kids, especially in a different country and culture. There's slang and then there's words of power, both positive and negative, that carry all sorts of baggage. Superficial, frat-rat machismo is definitely a negative.