The first really good Hitchens article in a while (North Korea is the subject)

[MadImmortalMan]

Tim should get the yellow fever. 

[jimmy olsen]

Looked at the book on Amazon and it seems interesting so I ordered it.

Book's preface was printed by the New York Times.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/28/books/excerpt-cleanest-race.html

[Razgovory]

I've had several other foreign teachers tell they've been told straight up by Koreans that Koreans shouldn't marry foreigners. However I personally haven't run into that and indeed coworkers have been encouraging me to get a Korean girlfriend. Still, there is a lot of ignorance (not malicious I think, just flat out ignorance) here about other peoples and races.

Have you followed their advice?

[jimmy olsen]

I'm trying, but none of the guys I know have had success except HMB.   

EDIT: Just saw this 
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/27/books/27book.html

If we have trouble seeing North Koreans plainly, they cannot see us at all. Telephone use is severely restricted. (Even the telephone book is a classified document marked "secret)."

[MadImmortalMan]

There's got to be thousands of Korean girls with a white boy fetish. Try harder. 

[Valmy]

The prose is decent but the insights are not terribly profound.  What did you think was so awesome about it?

Well I know very little about North Korea so it was an interesting read for me.

[Valmy]

Since China has less compunctions to resolve issues than we do - we should let them deal with the yellow dwarves.

China won't.  They want North Korea to be our problem.  Some world power, they are right on China's border.

[Valmy]

I'm trying, but none of the guys I know have had success except HMB.  

Mention your amazing skills at StarCraft.

[Martinus]

What I find funny is how Westerns often get totally surprised and shocked by the fact that various "communist" totalitarianisms freely employ racism, xenophobia and antisemitism to further their goals. I mean, the same happened in Poland in 1950-1960s.

[Martinus]

I think he means that having to deal with this horror show is in our future.

I guess you are right, but I suspect that South Korea will be dealing with it most.  Just like Germany dealt with it's commie portion after the wall fell.

To that extent, I think you are missingthe point of his article, which is that looking at North Korea as a "last gasp holdout" of traditional Communism (like East Germany) is not really understanding the problem.

They are not Communists, really, and probably never really were. And they are not going to fall over like the Communist regimes all fell, eventually.

By the same token, 1945-1989 Poland wasn't communist either.

[Martinus]

There's got to be thousands of Korean girls with a white boy fetish. Try harder. 

How's that going to help Tim, seeing how he is not white? 

[Josquius]

How's that going to help Tim, seeing how he is not white? 

In the land of the blind the one eyed man is king.

[jimmy olsen]

There's got to be thousands of Korean girls with a white boy fetish. Try harder. 

How's that going to help Tim, seeing how he is not white? 

Oh? What am I then? African, Asian, Native American or a Pacific Islander?

[DisturbedPervert]

In the land of the blind the one eyed man is king.

Asians have slanty eyes but they can still see.  Just not at night.   

[Grallon]

Oh? What am I then? African, Asian, Native American or a Pacific Islander?

Btw Tim, are you the timortis on the Dragon Age forums who's soloed the game on nightmare?



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