Korean students racist to Japanese student

[PeacefulCaribbeanDutch]

An American English teacher recently led her class in a ball game to help them learn.

Whoever had the ball had to throw it and exchange seats with the classmate who caught it. They all enjoyed themselves, except for one ― a Japanese-Korean child, whom the other students called “dirty.”

“If we passed a ball around in a circle, it would stop with him, (and) no one wanted to touch the ball after him. They’d run and get paper towels so that the ball he touched wouldn’t touch them directly,” the 23-year-old teacher at a school in Nowon-gu, northern Seoul, told The Korea Herald.

She was dumbfounded when her Korean co-teachers said that no intervention was necessary.

“They just said there’s always kids who are ‘slower’ or ‘less clean’ and the students decided to single him out,” she said.

Despite the efforts of the government, teachers and civil society to protect multicultural children from discrimination, they still face bullying and ostracization in class.

About 42 percent of students from multicultural families said they were taunted by classmates in a 2010 survey conducted by the National Human Rights Commission.

Another survey by Seoul City showed that four out of five foreign teenagers were not in school, largely because of discrimination and bullying.

In May, a 17-year-old Russian-Korean was apprehended by the police for a series of arson attacks on houses and a school.

The boy said he had been ridiculed by his friends since his elementary school days due to his appearance. His father and grandmother had died when he was young and his mother refused to raise him.

From 2008 to 2011, the number of foreigners married to Koreans increased by almost 50 percent to 211,458 and the number of children from multicultural backgrounds aged 6 to 18 more than tripled to 151,154.

The multicultural population has expanded its role in Korean society. The 19th National Assembly has the first naturalized Korean legislator. The Army is set to see its first two non-commissioned officers from multicultural backgrounds in July.

Chinese and Koreans really are cold hearted people, honestly.

If a kid was half korean half japanese I wouldn't even be able to tell them apart haha

[Útrám]

Xenophobic*

[Sikeliot]

Racist is not the correct word for this, since Koreans and Japanese are of the same race.

[PeacefulCaribbeanDutch]

so when a greek goes to Germany and they treat him bad, it is not racism either.

[~Elizabeth~]

I guess the word "ethnicism" would fit better. I know the word doesn't exist, but...

or "ethnism".

[Osprey]

so when a greek goes to Germany and they treat him bad, it is not racism either.

There is no Greek or German race. Some Greeks look like Germans. Some look Middle Eastern. Some look Dinaric.

[Bonita]

Chinese and Koreans really are cold hearted people, honestly.

If a kid was half korean half japanese I wouldn't even be able to tell them apart haha

There's no love lost between Koreans and Japaneses.

[Sigur Rós]

East-asians need better education about what's race and ethnicity. Too much video games kids.

[Edelmann]

And the American teacher is completely unready to deal with such issues, because she doesn't understand them. Even if she did, neither the kids nor the parents would listen to her.

Multiculturalism really worked out for those kids, huh?

Edit: Hmm, didn't realize this occurred in S. Korea. The point remains the same, I suppose.

[Mraz]

Japanese Empire behaved really really disgustingly toward this people so I understand Koreans, they aren't raised in the love of other races as we are.