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Permalink Reply by Eason King on October 27, 2012 at 12:15am

Honestly I think its awful and inexcusable. But the south korean media will do just about anything to sensationalize any form of racial discrimination toward them and excuse anything done to foreigners in their country. The kids from Hollister Uk here will keep buying that crap because they think its "famous" or whatever. You're answering a question that wasn't asked. This article deals with the bad behavior of Americans abroad.

If that's too threatening for you, and you need to change the topic to make it about the other guy, that's fine. But you might sound more credible if you would just acknowledge your refusal or incapacity to self-reflect on your own culture first, before claiming that two wrongs make a right.

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Permalink Reply by Ren the Vinyl Archaeologist on October 27, 2012 at 2:27am

Not really sure what you mean about your judgements about my incapacity to self reflect on "your own culture". What's my own culture?  I live in the United States, so I reflect on the American culture as having racist traditions. 

"Two wrongs make a right?" What are you talking about?

And do you live in South Korea?  I don't watch South Korean media, so I can't call that one.  There's no excuse for prejudice and racism.  What happened is only a symptom from a company that does not promote racial diversity in it's marketing campaign nor it's hiring practices.  A racist group think is the result.

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