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The Korean Communications Standards Commission (KCSC) criticized several radio broadcasters in Korea recently for incorporating English into their shows in favor of Korean words.
Specifically, the KCSC criticized their use of English words such as “nice” and “activity” when a similar Korean word could have been substituted in its place.
“There is a need for a concerted effort to use our own language when a Korean word exists that could replace a foreign word with the same definition,” the KCSC concluded.
Other than the above issue, the KCSC also frowned upon excessive use of non-formal banmal in certain broadcasts. “Even though you might have a personal relationship with other people on the air, caution must still be used when using banmal in broadcast, and even more careful when using it with normal citizens.”
At face value, it seems ridiculous, right? The Korean government criticizing radio stations for using English while their population is obsessed with speaking English and “going international” with it. Hence the existence of most foreigners in their country to begin with. Well perhaps it is still ridiculous, but the reason behind it isn’t that absurd to me.
Complete history lesson aside, when only one to two generations ago another country (Japan) tries to systematically eliminate your language from your culture/society, using foreign languages over Korean becomes a bigger deal than it would seem like for foreigners on a site like say … allkpop or Asian Junkie even. Hell, in America people complain about Spanish use despite it not being a threat and having never had foreign ground troops set foot in the country before (besides the War Of 1812, but that doesn’t count because … America’s Hat).
So given that context, it does annoy me when I read comments like, “LOL OMG THIS IS SO STUPID GET OVER IT” or “OMG KOREA IS SO RACIST/NATIONALISTIC/WHATEVER“. Just as a blanket statement, comments of that nature are sort of just dumb. While I point out the double standards and absurdities in Korea myself, I don’t really see this specific issue as being that absurd, honestly.
Now where I do find it to be ridiculous, besides the aforementioned reasons I already gave, is that their use of English is directly tied to the success of their biggest cultural export, K-pop. So it’s a tad ironic that the Korean government is critical of the use of English (in anything) since that same use of English has sparked a lot of the popularity for the cultural export they readily endorse.
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I understand not liking the incorporation of English words and whatnot – I mean it makes sense thinking about their history.
Meh, some German Commission is doing the same over here. Also in my home country they refuse to use much English. Guess it’s not just a “Korean thing”.
Some are actually trying to save some of their culture (yea, really) and for an insecure and at the same time highly proud nation like Korea it’s quite natural to do so.
German f.i. was known as the language of poets back in the day, now it’s rather notorious for being the aggressive, “I-will-punch-your-fucking-teeth-out-and-grill-your-penis-to-feed-it-to-my-german-shepard” language thanks to the Nazi fucks and Rammstein (but I still love the shit out of Rammstein). So when compared to this, I actually kind of understand where they are coming from even though I don’t mind the use of English – can’t be prevented anyways ’cause the youngsters think it’s cool.
But it’s fucking hard to explain anything to my parents with all the English terms in the modern business world.
Sweet Lord Jesus Christ. No_Min, you are just across the border from me. This too good to be true!
But yeah. People here are trying to avoid English as much as possible, because it “taints the beauty of the mothertongue”.
All my University classes are in English tho, and when I come home it’s really hard to talk in my own language about things that happened in another. It’s unavoidable to use it.
IKR !
I didn’t recognize her at first O_o
No_Min gave a normal comment without the use of any sexual references or rape fantasies !!!!!
WHO ARE YOU ? AND WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO OUR MIN ?
There was that part about grilling penises… But you’re right, that’s pretty mellow for our Min.
I am sorry for being a sinner – Siwon’s dad is allowed to cut my clitoris off for not posting perverted shit.
I will go back to my usual comments – someone has to get the party started.
So where the hell are you from, Tap? This just screams for a weekend trip to fist you to high heavens.
Oh my god- you imagine a world without No_Min
D:
Why, that’s not a world worth living in
http://www.memecreator.org/static/images/memes/382334.jpg
But you are damn right! Who is gonna take the virginity of Taemin if not me? At least I can slap a fan girl hoe if she freaks out about it. And if she sends me death threats written in her period blood, I will make myself some tea out of it. I am sure it’s good for my skin.
You are invited as well. Take Jung Juri with you and let’s get the party started!
Lucky for you Minnie, I’m from the land of cheap prostitutes and car thieves. Or maybe the stereotypes changed? Either way, go east.
Oh no, stereotypes don’t change that easily! Knew right away where you are from lol – but only from the hint with the stolen cars since cheap prostitutes come in all sizes and shapes from all over Eastern Europe.
But them hookers are some fine bitches, Eastern European quality.
Yeah, you know my Slavic sisters can deliver. I think prostitution is a main profesion for the girls from the East. I lived in scandi this past year and all the hookers were either from Ukraine or Bealrus. Also some Lithuanians…
Woop Eastern Europe represent…though I don’t even live back there anymore. I miss the gypsies and my country’s ex-bodyguard prime-minister so much…
Same here @Eastern Europe represent :D
But moved here ages ago. ^^
schwesterlein, seien wir erlich, die deutsche sprache war nie die sprache der poesie :)
Ach naja, mit der deutschen Sprache kann man durchaus schöne Texte formen. Und genauso gut auch sehr verwirrende.
@no min
Growing up my mom never stress for me to learn Spanish. I feel regretful now because I can get a better job if I did. My step father who is west indian was kinda piss off about it. He felt the language was important. He couldn’t when the battle of me learning Spanish but I could never cut my hair short. Apparently latina girls don’t cut their hair until a certain age. I see this a lot in mexican culture. Girls can cut theirr hair either but the younger generation are still taught spanish as well english for the older one to understand. I guess my mother didn’t see heritage purity if I. Learn spanish and follow tradition. We are puero rican she always felt conflicted about certain customs within our culture.
I’ve been to germany and most of the people I met speak english as well as dutch. I’m takin up german in the fall. I don’t know why but I like german more than spanish. Also I would love to go back since germeny economy is on the up swing.
Funny considering they want to spread kpop around the world. But instead of English words, they’ll just use subtitles.
I don’t think the ones wanting to spread the “Korean wave” are actually the ones complaining about the use of English (at least I hope so because that would be fucking dumb).
Well, it is the Korean government is intent on spreading Kpop to get a stand in the world, and they are the ones telling stations to no use so much English
Idek why
Inter-department rivalry? We all know how much the US agencies love each other.
You know, they actually hardly subtitle anything.
Over here -Arab world- goverment/people used to complain about the use of english all the time.
I remember that there was a law in my country that forbids the use of english in street signs or any public display including shops’s signs,commercials…etc. -it’s not effective anymore-
Now it became less but you can still hear some complain about what they call “cultural raid”
Insadong is a part of Seoul where they forbid international chains or any stores to use any English for their signs or other stuff.
You will find McDonalds, Starbucks and all kinds of crap there but they had to adjust their shit to be allowed to open a store there – so it doesn’t “taint” the traditional feel of the district…
Nothing smells more like traditional Korean culture like Korean hipsters munching on a BigMac, wearing Jeremy Scott “fashion” and playing with their iPads while sipping on their Venti, sugar-free, non-fat, vanilla soy, double shot, decaf, no foam, extra hot, Peppermint White Chocolate Mocha.
It was fucking hilarious.
Yo where you from my fellow brown person?
Yea so in india it’s basically like, they speak in whatever language is the official one of the state, and then in broadcasts and shit they prefer to use hindi because it’s the official lang even though not a lot of people actually know it super /well/.
But all the younuns these days like talking in english and pretty much everyone in india is at least proficient in english so there’s been quite a bit of upset/annoyance over that.
the older indians do not enjoy the common use of a language brought to us by our former conquerors/oppressors whatever you wanna call it.
Me is from libya
same here, with all the history of wars between the arabs and the west, a lot of people -older ones mainly- considered english to be the language of the “enemy” thus we shouldn’t use it in our daily life -it’s sort of ironic cause almost all college courses are in english- but now things have changed like you said thanks to the younger generations
I hate that they’re forcing Spanish on us in America because all of the illegal Mexicans….
I knew the whole reason behind Dora the Explorer
Multiple state languages just makes everything harder.
My reasons for wanting English as the official language has everything to do with practicality and organization.
That is true part of a economic growin nation is to have one central language. I don’t feel like spanish is enforce but where I live creole and french. I don’t blame the hatians because as long as I remeber french was an alternative.
Even when I buy certain electronic goods. They have directions in english,french,japanese,chinese and german.
Dude, what are you writing? You make nearly no sense at all. Are you saying that it’s imperative for a nation to have one central language in order to grow economically or that economically prosperous nations have one central language? “I don’t feel like Spanish is enforce” What?
@outsiderkpop
English is still first taught in school. I’ve been to germany. Their language is first. english is second thrid is usually french or italian. Spanish is not pushing out english here in the u.s. America is starting to catch up with the rest of the world of learning more than one language.
Cute..you assume that all the spanish speaking people that came here illegally are mexicans.
Nope
There is a show that a little chinese girl teaches you the language. Oh god I can’t remeber her name. She is like dora. Damn her name i is common. I hate my memory
Ni Hao Kai Lan?
That show is wayyy over my head
Well then, America is Canada’s footstool.
I always heard:
America, Canada’s shorts
http://imgur.com/gallery/CMC6o
Ah Canada, where we think we’re the nicest people on the planet but end up looking like a bunch of holier than thou assholes.
We Canadians really are assholes aren’t we? And of course America is the best country in the world and Americans are better than their northern neighbours.
Yes, you’re completely right. Canadians are arrogant assholes. Thanks for the revelation.
AMERICA
FUCK YEAH
Next time you have this kind of article topic, just write about it. “KCSC criticizes use of English”. Watch the comments that fly around here. Then the next day write an article mocking everyone telling them why they’re wrong and stupid. I think it’ll be entertaining.
Trolling my own readers.
Well, like I said on AKP, they should criticize the use of the nonsensical English group names, song titles and lyrics in Kpop.
But you reasoning behind it, well I never thought about it like that so… hmm… does make sense.
English is the de-facto “international language”. I’m sure the remnants of the vast British empire which once covered half of the globe has a lot to do with why English emerged as the most widely-spoken language in the world. Whatever the reason, that’s just how it ended up.
Someone who knows English can go almost anywhere in the world and find someone who speaks at least some English. Bilingual sings are almost always in English, etc.
I understand the emotional basis for wanting to “preserve” something like culture and language. But there isn’t much of a rational or logical basis for it.
I personally think having a common means of communication throughout the world (whether it be English or some hybrid language) offers far greater benefits to everybody than any benefit that would be gained by trying to keep certain languages from evolving.
Languages aren’t “static” by any means, anyways. They are always changing – adding new words, changing the meaning of others, and incorporating words and phrases from other languages. It’s not a bad thing.
Like I said – I understand the emotional reason for wanting to “keep things the same”, but I don’t think the “pros” of doing so outweigh the “cons”.
Therefore, from a rational standpoint, I do think this is silly. This isn’t language that is being “forced” on Koreans like Japanese was – it’s just a natural evolution.
English is a language of a certain culture- and because the English speaking territories were vast at one point of history (North America, the British Empire) it naturally became sort of a lingua franca. But there is a difference between a language that was first used as a language of a certain community and then spread, and a language especially constructed to serve as international means of communication like f.e Esperanto
Korea should drop English altogether. I’m not sure whether they are really this pathetic or they act dumb but it’s rare I hear or read proper English where it should actually matter.
Especially since English is one of THE most simple languages out there. Basically I learned it by watching Cartoon Network as a kid and surfing on the net as a teenager. I was already fluent when I “started” to study English in high school…
Languages are easy (imo) but for some people they are actually really hard to pick up on, and since (I think) the sentence structure in korean is pretty diff from english it’s hard for them to pick up on it.
Like, spanish is probably one of the easiest languages for an english speaking person to learn but everyone i know (besides my brother) sucks balls at it.
I think it just depends on the person.
Of course there is the aspect of being a skilled language learner or not, however most people possess to various extent this skill.
I didn’t attend an elite school but the number of students lacking any sort of skill for learning languages wasn’t high – there were many lazy and not interested ones but actual lack of skill didn’t occur often.
You can’t blame a phenomena typical for a whole country ( Engrish ) on a few percent of people who can’t learn it regardless how hard they try.
I suppose you have a point there.
I thought English was one of the hardest language to master. Hell, even native English speakers doesn’t have a full grasp of it
It’s supposedly the 2nd/3rd hardest (I think Chinese being first, especially due to all the dialects and those characters it has) But our sound system is so complicated (which I learn that Chinese is as well.. I think Korean is too but easier to read) and can’t be simple like Spanish or Japanese and a lot of ‘rules’ don’t make sense.. they just contradict each other ;_;. But yeah, If I got a nickel every time someone says ‘conversate’ I’ll be rich….
From my Hungarian point of view English is one of the most barbaric* languages which is the key to it’s success as a universal channel of communication. The accent is a difficulty but grammar itself is not when someone really pays attention once. Vocabulary is a different issue though, a regular conversation or monologue requires a relatively small number of words. Specific topics require extra vocabulary however a few times used even less popular words can be memorized.
* by barbaric I refer to the fact that being grammatically wrong can still express the message. Meme phrases like “Y U NO” despite being grammatically incorrect still express the meaning fully just by reminding us of the actual sound of words and the word order ( Y U NO still follows the correct order of Why are you not ).
Hungarian is usually listed among the top 10/top 5 ( depends who makes the list ) of most difficult languages due to our excessive number of suffixes and the accompanying rules of sound harmony that pretty much doubles the number of them. I read somewhere a Hungarian noun can have up to 200+ forms by adding suffixes.
Consider the following, while in English the difference between I read a book. and I read the book. is shown by the use of article “a” and “the” , in Hungarian we also have at least 2-2 separate so called personal suffixes to express the same – there are 6 singular and plural suffixes for verbs of which all have at least 2 forms /some 3/ ( due to sound harmony ) and there are two groups of verbs, definite and indefinite. That’s a total of 24 suffixes to chose from yet we only crossed the border of the present tense.
We also have two letters for the same “y as in yard” sound, “j” and “ly” that are only different in writing. Even Hungarian kids struggle with learning which words contain which so I’m pretty sure foreigners hate them too lol
So as you can see, although my mother tongue naturally appears easy to me, I can’t help but consider English easier when it comes to grammar and pronunciation ( Hungarian also has sounds English does not or can only hardly imitate )…
Nem hiszem el. Találtam egy magyar csajt ezen az oldalan? :o
@Ana
You make me curious to ask my co-worker how difficult it was for her to learn English (she’s Hungarian too but is older like…. in her 60′s oldish but sooo sweet ;_;)
I guess for me too, English seems easy since it’s my native tongue but when I think about it technically it makes no sense whatsoever. The thing that makes me grateful about it is the mighty word ‘it’ & the lack of gender (I can’t grasp how items have genders in romance languages >< ) But I do think there's many other languages that seem it could be harder than English (esp those that don't use Roman letters) because it's like a many part process with it. I think Japanese is hard to read/memorize due to its 4 writing systems and how kanji can be read different ways. I would personally be lost.
@Min: szerintem kettőt biztos találtál :)
@No_Min @taro : Márcsak egy D’Artagnan hiányzik és kész a Muskétás csapat lol
I don’t think that english is hard at all -me not being a native speaker-
sometimes I mess up my grammars or spelling but it’s very rare, the toughest things are the complecated words you people use in the bible and old plays and novels
Heck, we barely even use those words lol. I think it would be tough since no one really speaks Ye Olde English and add -th to the end of action verbs and crap.
True you don’t use those words anymore but I remember having a REALLY hard time when I had to read some novels at college I was like what the hell is this ? That’s not how english people speak O_o
For moments I honestly thought it was old latin or something
ah, remembered something else -that’s tough in english- it’s the use of slang words and phrases.
Sometimes I just don’t get it O_o e.g when someone says “you’re so full of it” I don’t understand how this is an insult :s and many more ><
Oh yeah in college I took a class “Art of Drama” and our first play to read was “A Midnight Summer’s Dream.” I looked at that book…. tried to read…. and just decided to go on wikipedia to see what it was about lol!!!!! I googled other sources too just to even grasp the synopsis because uh…. yeah I was lost.
Ah the almighty idioms and colloquial phrases. Well “You’re so full of it” is the nice way of saying “You’re so full of shit.” ^^;; Our phrases also get shorter and shorter too so some of the words left out are already understood. (oooh this would be a perfect chance to put my TESL lessons to use! If you want, I can teach you more stuffys or whatever!)
Please do :) -if you have time that is-
It’s really embarrassing sometimes when someone uses slang and I just don’t get it :(
and it’s even more embarrassing to ask >_> you see some people don’t give foreigners a break
Just read your comment now!!! Oh, urban dictionary is a great site for all those new contemporary slang stuff out. When I saw on twitter people being ‘thirsty’ I was like “Uh….. then go get some water……?” My sis-in-law laughed so hard in my face -____- Even I am behind with slang stuff. Or people ‘biting off’ someone… (I dunno kinda cannibalistic to me…… esp them cases springing up) well I think you can click on my name to see my twitter if you wanna talk more tooo (if you have one, that is) ^___^
I always thought English was super easy. It has no gramatical cases (umm, do you know what it is?), alnd only a few of the past and future tenses, no gender-relevant noun or verb form, etc.
According to the British Foreign Office the hardest languages in the world are: Chinese, Arabic, Tayuca, Hungarian, Japanese, Navajo, Estonian, Basque, Polish and Icelandic
http://mylanguages.org/difficult_languages.php
Arabic is one of the hardest languages !?
Wow, I didn’t know that O_o
thinking about it, maybe it’s because of the fact that we have detailed descriptive words e.g you can have more than ten words that can be translated into one word in english but in arabic each word can mean something different -it does sound complicated ><-
I speak one of those – and I agree that it’s fucking hard and confusing. It doesn’t make sense lots of times and is only related to one other language in the world – but that relation is over thousand years old.
Yeah my sister is teaching herself many languages, including Chinese and Arabic. She said that Chinese was super easy and fun (which surprised me because of all the complicated and intricate symbols one needs to learn), but that Arabic was more difficult. Korean is another one of the many languages she is learning and she said that Arabic had some similarities to Korean… So I’m guessing that both are difficult to some level. I guess that it’s pretty much the order, like subject-direct object- verb
ICantonese and Vietnamese isn’t hard. Or maybe because it’s not far from my language and they’re all tonal languages. But trying to read or write it (Chinese), it’s just too much for me. And all those accent marks that the Vietnamese use, I’m like “the fuck, how the hell you pronounce that?!”
Oh yeah I wanted to mentioned Arabic above. It just even looks hard and then it’s read backwards too. My aunt knows how to read some.
I remember taking a semester of Arabic…its fucking difficult. Alot of the letters were the same but would sound different based on where you put the dots or marks. And not only did you read it backwards, its like writing in cursive, and I hate cursive
Chinese is one of the easiest languages to learn.
Yea, the characters can be overwhelming by the accent is not hard to master and the grammar is some of the simplest out there.
english is easy to learn, that’s why it’s used as the ‘global’ language. Every idiot can learn it, including me.
English has the most rules out of all the romance languages. I’m American, but I’m currently taking Spanish and French courses and English does have a lot of stupid rules. I applaud for anyone that learns it and masters it.
Back in the day, Cartoon Network was the shit. Now it’s a bunch of crap. They lost their identity just like MTV & The History Channel
Well CN sucks with having non-cartoon crap on there but… Chowder, Foster Home, Adventure Time, Gumball, etc are pretty cool shows. People can argue all they want about Power Puff Girls, Dexter, etc being ‘sooo awesome I miss the 90′s!!!! Cartoons these days suck!!” but the above listed shows really grasp on comedy that’s very up to date on how we are and well… following contemporary society. The people in my age group just grew up with the 90′s cartoon so of course they’ll act like our parents/grandparents generation with the whole “this garbage nowadays.. not as good as when I was growing up!” (I’m sure our complained about the stuff we liked too and how channels back then were failing compared to when they first came out)
Now MTV….. *coughs* Viacom in general just kinda went downhill with all of their ‘reality’ stuff and less music being presented on their channels (omg even LOGO has frickin 16 and Preggers! At least put True Life in place of that)
and Flap Jack
I always looked at Morgan Freeman differently for coming up with that show. Dude is like 80 years old, what the hell are you doing thinking about pregnant 16 year olds…
How can you forget Courage the cowardly dog? Love that show and his obnoxious big mouth screaming all the time. It was kinda of a disturbing show, but I credit them for taking risks. The only thing keeping that channel relevant nowadays is Adult Swim and Toonami. But Toonami recycled shows that was on Adult Swim anyway.
*And who could forget
@LakornDiva
…because Courage the Cowardly Dog came out waaaaay before the newer shows. It’s more in the Dexter/Johnny Bravo/PPG/Samurai Jack/Cow&Chicken/Ed Edd & Eddy era ;_; (it actually bores me a lot… I couldn’t get into Courage)
Chowder was awesome, but Foster Home, Adventure Time, Gumball, etc can’t even compare to PPG or Dexter or Courage. It sucks, simple as that. all those ’90′s’ cartoons contained material that is far more contemporary, funny, and intelligent than any of the shows you have listed. Let’s not forget about Kids Next Door, Class of 3000, Secret Saturdays. People complain not because of the “nostalgia”, but because those shows are genuinely better. Every generation has complainers, because every generation has people with different tastes. Do you not remember Toonami? The awesomeness of that show introduced me and millions of other kids to Japanese, and consequently Asian, culture. Adult swim and CN used to be my most watched channel, but now I’ve basically switched to Boomerang.
@JungKi
To be honest I see nothing really superior and contemporary with Dextor, PPG etc. Of course, it’s all really subjective (even the new Looney Tunes. Though it contrasts a lot with the old one, there’s something very modern with it that I still like about it. I don’t watch it liek that since I don’t regularly watch TV but I feel the way with New Scooby Doo. For those cartoons to actually make literally lol is amazing to me, because I don’t even recall doing that with growing up with the first generation of CN before my cable got shut off. And Total Drama Island? Canada made an awesome cartoon with that! To me, it incorporates lots more elements that can make it just as enjoyable to older teens/young adults. I still see it as though when people of my generation keep going on and on about 90′s stuff, it’s still, in the end, them being comfortable and falling back with liking stuff they’re familiar with because they grew up with it.
If anything, and many animators may argue, the golden age of animation beats all these other ones lol. (actually think that Family Guy really brought out how just he animation technique back then was really nice, smooth, and very much time being put into it) but still, I’m sure grandparents/great grandparents will argue those were better back in their days because, like I said, that’s how many are.
Oh, I didn’t forget Toonami but it was Sailormoon that got me more into anime (before it was on Toonami. Like, back when it was on old UPN 7 in the morning in ’94. DBZ too but I think I saw it by other means because by that time I didn’t have cable) so for me personally, I didn’t rely on Toonami for anime. Though old Adult Swim, I wasn’t crazy about a lot of the anime they showed on their anyway. They all gotta air like a similar show of each other and I’m picky with my stuff too. The only real out there they showed was FLCL and Shinchan (well at least with what I can remember. I stopped watching a long time because I use to rent anime from… dun dun dun! Movie stores!!!! Back on VHS lol) But for other people, yeah it really opened the doors to still just anime/Japan (kinda Asia but just mainly Japan) but again, there’s like a certain pattern/anime stuff they like to show on Toonami but sadly other stuff gets overlooked since it doesn’t quite fit with the ‘mold.’ (oh yeah, I also got most of my anime from WB back when they actually aired kids shows EVERY DAY!!! Not just frickin Saturdays) I’m sure this post is rather long now…
Whatever happened to the History Channel and why in the hell did they ever think Ancient Aliens had anything to do with history? I never thought I’d see that channel throw away it’s credibility for ratings.
Ice road truckers…..wtf? How is that history
Used to be awesome as hell. They had freaking Terry Jones on there- like, what the hell?
These networks are just serving the average TV viewer (in other words, a fucking moron).
But ‘Hillbilly Fishfucker’ is a good show though, right?:
http://img.poptower.com/pic-57654/skipper-bivins-hillbilly-handfishin.jpg?d=600
I was like “WHAT!? But wiki-ed and apparently it’s a different Morgan Freeman (Morgan J Freeman.. guess he adds the J to not be mixed up lol)
Nickelodeon was also the shit back in the day. Rugrats, Rocko’s Modern Life, Ren & Stimpy (learned a lot of sick shit from them), Aaahh!!! Real Monsters – what a great and extremely disturbing childhood I had. It was great.
Ren & Stimpy wasn’t made for little kids
Well also watched Animal Farm, Watership Down and Felidae when I was pretty young – they were showing that shit on Saturday mornings after My little pony (other than Felidae)…
If you don’t know them… just do yourself a favour and don’t watch them if you’re sensitive…
I am sure those animated films played some kind of role in destroying my sanity at a young age.
Btw: they showed Ren & Stimpy around midday over here. Guess they didn’t really give a shit back then – and look how I have turned out!
Ren and Stimpy was hilarious- whereas Cow and Chicken tried to hide itself as a children’s show, Ren & Stimpy was just blatantly disturbing. Real Monsters was awesome as well. Rocko was okay, and Rugrats I just never got. Bored the hell out of me. Invader Zim was the SHIIIT.
@No Min
I never heard of the shows you listed. Also, I think you turned out fine.
@JungKi
Invader Zim is super official. I watch the series on Netflix
Nostalgia…
Actually not so easy for Asians.
I can get that, the Philippines has been taken over numerous times, one of the reasons why they stopped using Spanish was to shake of the colonial oppression feeling. Now, for god knows what reason, they choose to either speak English or some bastardized version of English/Tagalog, and I’ve seen this during Presidential debates and senate session. I’ve heard friends and family either embarrassed or not caring about the history of the islands, both during colony times and before.
A part of me feels like they do it because they think it makes them feel smarter/cooler or for some inferiority complex.
I don’t think Korea has to worry that much though, PI was never technically a united people until the Spanish took over, and they have something over 100 different languages and something like 200 dialects within those languages.
Korea saying they want more Korean spoken isn’t them being nationalistic/racist, more them being worried about their language/history being lost and ending up like a country like the Philippines :/ More a matter of pride then anything and that I can respect.
To clarify, I don’t really see a problem when the news/government speak English, but when they mix the two languages it’s really grating. Choose one language or the other.
Philippians are hot, so they can get away with it
I didnt see anything wrong with them saying this either. I figured they would push to keep their culture/language as still the main format. Though I dont agree with the whole prescreen of music videos that’ll be going on over there in the near future.
France does this too, but with English songs being played too much. Bad for the domestic music industry and French is a dying language too.
They even have their own government linguistics department to assign genders to nouns etc (they will burn in the lowest tiers of hell for that).
French is a dying language !?
But I thought it’s the 2nd global language -english being the 1st- you know like in the olympics where they call out nations names in both english and french
Now I know
You’re correct. French use to be the “global” language, but now it’s English. French is right after that though as many countries in the world speak French
no, french is not a dying language, wtf … we still speak it.
If you didn’t still speak it, that would be a dead language.
It’s slowly succumbing to English.
how about Kpop songs??they use English title ._.
But it’s different lol
i hate when Kpop song use English title but doesn’t have any English word in their lyric…
Example : Infinite – The Chaser
After School – Shampoo
Well if it’s about the the title within the lyrics, I see no problem with it (one of my favs pretty much only had English titles minus like 3 songs in her discography but wasn’t until her 5 album that she actually included English words/phrases.. But her lyrics talk about the title of the song either directly or metaphorically) But yeah when it’s named something just for the heck and has absolutely nothing to do with the lyrics or even the music….. -___-
I’m french, lol and it’s a big deal in France too.
English language is devil, lol. I think it’s the case with many countries where english is not an official language.
English is seen a threat for your native language.
After reading most of the comments on this article, I have to agree with you.
At first I thought it was only an issue around here because of the constant tension between the west and the middle east, but seeing that even european countries have this issue I’m starting to think that english is considered a “global threat”
When I visited France a couple of times, it seemed to me like it’s on a whole new level on the “hating-on-english” scale.
Also when it comes to german in cities like Straßbourg (where a huge population can still speak german) – I did not just have feelings of not being welcomed, but I was actually being looked down on in the most blatant ways possible.
I understand that it’s because of history but I was a child back then, looking for help and my broken french didn’t help out much – but all I got was ignorance and sneers.
I was pleasantly surprised by the young folks, though. They came up to us and were really friendly.
But the older generations still seem to have some bad feelings about people from the country of Lederhosen and beer – I just hope that one day it won’t be that big of a deal anymore and I can enjoy some nice french wine with nice french people somewhere in those beautiful cities.
And Paris is just something else. :D That was even more interesting.
Also I heard that people in southern France act completely different – do they have a different mentality, veryhappy?
Min, southern france is the mediterran france, more sunshine, more vine, more aiolli. and they know the siesta.
(interesting that befor the great revolution was a lot another languages in french: breton, occitan, provancal etc)
One of my sisters (not the one on here) went to Europe over the summer and said that people in France were the kindest people. It totally surprised me considering they get the “snooty” stereotype.
My French teachers said that they had to be super nice and careful though because the French could get pissy. Maybe it depends on the person- my sister is a sexy bitch so maybe that’s why, or maybe the French people around her were nice
Golobalization is the colonist way
I mean when my grandmother came to america in the late 50s after puerto rico became a common wealth nation. She didn’t speak any english and was treated unfairly. She taught her kids to never speak spanish unless you are among your own kind. Next to only marrying white people.
America got a lot of issue it pushes onto other nations. Even when I was germany. Every kid in my group who was white. Try to say because I have brown skin I might suffer racism. Another girl in our group who was Indian and she was the same skin color. told me don’t listen to your american firends they don’t know what they are talking about. Let’s just say germans were offended that americans seen them as super racist. When they feel the same towards america.
mybias, a lot of europen minorities lost they native languages and culture a same way in their homeland.(we have almost no minorities in my country) sometimes it is not colonization, “only” nationalism
When america made puerto rico a common wealth nation during the 50s. It expose some rather hasrh racial customs that haven’t been used since slavery.
So when america try to define puerto ricans by seperate race. Some 20% of ricans were mixed with negro blood. Rest consider themselves of european. While only less than 2% have indian blood. This torn families apart.
I’ve met my fair share of puerto ricans who’s families became split up after accepting american ideals of race. The newer generation wants nothing to do with that.
Its the same with germans and getting over the nazi war. People think germans are racist because of WW II. So many germans loathe that image and prejudice. Even when my mom was station in germany during the 80s. You could not wear a nazi outfit,or claim to be a nazi or preach nazi beliefs or wave the flag. You’ll get your ass beat. till this day many germans refuse to speak of the war. Nor support nazi base political parties.
I should take up Japanese in the Spring semester.
http://www.allkpop.com/2012/08/teen-top-members-reveal-their-ideal-women-actress-version
LOL Supposedly Ike C.A.P Turner’s ideal woman is Han Ji Min (OH GOD, SOMEBODY WARN HER) or anyone that is athletic and has tanned skin.
http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ltuzhnJysO1qatvt2.gif
We must also keep Hyori and Hyorin safe just to be sure.
I call hyori- ain’t nobody but me getting that sexy woman. She is one of my role models, along with being one of the woman that I’d go gay for. In other words, SHE’S MAH BITCH, AND IF HE COMES NEAR I’LL GO CHUCK NORRIS ON HIS SEXIST ASS.
You best believe it. UNF.
Please do..Japanese is super fun…well at my school that had these student teachers help us learn and we had to call them sensei… I felt like I was in a Japanese porno “Watanabe-sensei….Ooishi-sensei”
I find the language easy
@I_wish_I_was_Korean
Well, it’s a little ridiculous. Languages adopt words all the time from other languages, and telling them what words they can use is silly to me. This isn’t a country trying to force their language on them. It’s a country where English is used daily, and is taught as a second language in school for everyone by the country’s choice. If these guys want to speak using Korean words only, then they can do that. But to admonish somebody, especially when it’s the government, because they don’t follow your purist language belief is silly.
this is why it doesn’t irk me much when there’s english, or any other language for that matter, usage/reference in other language as language itself is a dynamic object to me.
it, however, makes me roll my eyes when people use english just for the sake of being ‘cool’ or feeling ‘superior’ simply because you can speak english and not others.
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