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Originally Posted by nmhen
1. I'm an American. A naturalized American, native SOUTH Korean. (This means, among other things, that I can not be President of the United States, because I am not a natural-born citizen of the US. Me and Ahnold.) If I get any backlash about this nutjob because of how I look I'll let you know.
2. As much as I'd like to think otherwise, I fear the great majority of Americans today have no idea about the history of our relationship (militarily or otherwise) with the Koreas. I mean, the great majority of Americans can't name all 50 states in the country, tell you who George Washington was, or why he was important, or discuss any of the Amendments to the Constitution with anything approaching lucidity (much less accuracy).
Sad, but true.
There is no real emphasis on embracing our history, glorious or otherwise, from anything more than a grade school perspective. And, being the great melting pot, or salad bowl or whatever BS politically correct phrase we're using today, there are more cultures (with their own respective histories) fighting for attention than ever.
Now, I would never want to see us close our borders to preserve some insane aspect of "nationality" as some of my more jingoistic brothers and sisters in this great country would counsel.
But I have to respectfully disagree that any but a small (and dwindling) percentage of Americans can tell you anything about the statehood between Korea (North or South) and the USA.
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He wrote this, I assume? If so, then wow. Just wow. He sounds bitter about the ignorance between national relations, and on the part of Americans in general (in this case, with regards to the Koreas). That's very unfortunate. However, it sort of echoes what I said earlier in this thread about average people not knowing about political and international issues...