The Koreans have been struggling in their own identify crisis for centuries. Their search for a cultural "essence" always involves serious contradictions. The literature of Korean cultural distinction is strikingly similar to Japanese attempts to prove the "uniqueness" of their own cultural heritage, although "proof" of Japan's uniqueness is usually drawn from examples of Western countries (the significant "other" for modernized Japanese). So it all depends on who the boss is and the political whirlwinds can shift rapidly. Since the early 1970s, Seoul's policy governing the teaching and use of Chinese characters has shifted several times, although the trend clearly has been toward writing in han'gul alone. By early 1990, all but academic writing used far fewer Chinese characters than was the case in the 1960s. In 1989 the Korean Language and Education Research Association, citing the need for Chinese character literacy "at a time when the nation is entering into keen competition with Japan and China" and noting that Japanese educators were increasing the number of Chinese characters taught in elementary schools, recommended to the Ministry of Education that instruction in Chinese characters be reintroduced at the primary-school level. No doubt they was an influx of Shantung exodus to Korea after 1949 and settled down to avoid communist persecution. These "kwagui", some now being the third generation born there, are not treated as part of the mainstream society. This situation is similar to the Koreans born and live in Japan now are being treated as criminals. Those Yakuza in Osaka are mostly Korean descent and they are constantly harassed by the Japanese law enforcement. When they travel, they have to obtain passport from Korea and not Japan tho they were born and raised there. All these nonsense were actually started by, ye you got it brother, the Japanese. # z4 B3 F7 n# ^0 ATVBNOW 含有熱門話題，最新最快電視，軟體，遊戲，電影，動漫及日常生活及興趣交流等資訊。TVBNOW 含有熱門話題，最新最快電視，軟體，遊戲，電影，動漫及日常生活及興趣交流等資訊。! K6 s2 x8 _$ W7 P
So ultimately if we must blame somebody, it's the Japanese that gave the Koreans the idea. I est my case. Amen!作者: b40342 時間: 2006-11-11 08:51 PM
5 _+ {: ?* {6 TTVBNOW 含有熱門話題，最新最快電視，軟體，遊戲，電影，動漫及日常生活及興趣交流等資訊。Think you've mistaken the character “中” here. China was called "Zhong Guo" because in the old days Emperor Chin (the first emperor) was so powerful in Asia, countries in Europe knew there was such a powerful emperor in the center of the world and he was the head of that "Central Kingdom." China was considered the center of civilization. So the character “中” actually means "center" and not "middle."+ w* E" [+ ^: z0 v
, F% }# i7 O0 o# S3 t1 ]6 s/ eChina was first named by Europeans during the Chin dynasty. At that time Spain was the most powerful country in Europe with the best Naval sea going fleet. All Spanish words have gender, either male or female. Bad things are always feminine, like "drug" is "druga" and not "drugo." Spanish are rather chauvinistic and anything they don't like or jealous of will automatically considered feminine. Thus the Central Kingdom was named "China" instead of "Chino." 4 q) v2 H2 e4 x! ?- A; o, Kwww2.tvboxnow.comtvb now,tvbnow,bttvb" D( M4 H$ r' N* G% P
So if you think China is a "泱泱大国", then we should learn history and the truth before anybody else. No wonder some "Lao huai" can speak better Putonghua than Chinese.;P作者: ivan_168 時間: 2006-11-14 08:28 PM
咁都得?作者: jj99xx 時間: 2006-11-15 02:36 AM
Now that you've learned, you can start educating the others... www2.tvboxnow.com5 J2 M+ p3 Q7 d8 J9 ? [
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"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." - Albert Einstein (1879-1955)作者: 小魚兒 時間: 2006-11-15 04:49 PM
