This is so true, all koreans and Chinese are low class and barbaric, including me.

However, if you do the same thing to a Korean on the internet, be prepared for a flurry of dirty, offensive and hateful language, racist profanities and death threats. Such is the way of Korean thinking….barbaric and low class.

I’m not angry about Japan. What I meant was, if foreigners feel angry about Japan they can say whatever they like online, and won’t become the equivalent of dogshit girl on the Internet. Trolls exist (look a 2ch) but it’s not like in Korea.

That is all.

I might be mistaken but I sense your angry emotion about Gaijin situation in Japan. Please feel free to publicize it.
I think most Japanese are not so familiar with other culture, and gaijin situation in Japan. I think a healthy criticism will makes Japan better, (and I also think Gerry’s posts were healthy criticisms.)

I guess I thought that the “Japan-foreigner” dynamic could get nasty. But the Korea-foreigner dynamic is just nasty. Probably what saves angry gaijin in Japan is the fact that Japanese folks are more tolerant/indifferent, though not to say apolitical.

All we need is 和

Occidentalism actually has 3 authors, and Gerry’s posts seem to focus directly on the Dokdo issue or on North Korean foreign policy. It’s not “his” blog, it’s a group blog that he joined so he could get a larger readership for his Dokdo postings. Since Gerry is writing about a topic that is very sensitive to Korean nationalists, it is only natural that it will bring out all kinds of trollish or angry comments from people. I don’t think Gerry should be held responsible for the comments left on the site. It also seems unfair to say that Gerry “hates the place,” simply because he disagrees with the foreign policy of its government or the growing nationalism there.

AboutJoel is a good blog too. The great thing about the blogosphere is that a wide variety of viewpoints that can be found out there.

AboutJoel is a much better (and saner) blog by a Westerner who speaks, reads, writes Korean. Limnality is another good blog.

I mean, some of the stupid things they were saying about Korean “prostitutes” in the US are just stupid… Occidental’s blog just seems like a honeypot for trolls, Korean or otherwise.

Gaps of logic like that one exist in every country, will all people. It’s very easy to explain how they come about: government, media, education.