Even if the
kvetchpats acting in the harassment video, did several takes of the same scene,
I wouldn't call it acting. It would be similar to hiring someone to play
themselves in a movie according to how they would actually be in real life
instead of a context imagined by the writer. So it would not be such a stretch
for a clubbing alcoholic to play drunk and hung-over after going to a nightclub
because that is how they would be in real life. Likewise for the creators of
the nightclub harassment video. They were just acting the way that they did in
real life although I'm sure they used a script to make sure they got to say
everything they wanted to say the way they wanted to say it. That way, they
could replay the video and relive their fantasy of how they degraded a Korean
woman. Nothing in life occurs in a vacuum and I don't believe that this was the
first time that these guys acted this way toward a Korean woman. But this time,
they were calculated enough to devise a script in their head about what they
wanted to say and how they wanted to say it to live out their ultimate fantasy
of degrading a Korean woman. The motivation was not something that they needed
to work on like real actors because they already had the motivation to degrade
a Korean woman. That is how they are in real life. If you put them next to a
computer, I'm sure that they would naturally go to Dave's ESL or some other
Korea bashing site and degrade Korean
women. I'm sure that this was not the first time that they had gone to a Korean
nightclub or the particular nightclub in question. They had been out enough to
know where they wanted to film, where they could find a lone and drunk Korean
woman to harass, where it would be so loud that no one would pay much attention
to them and disrupt their filming. They knew where they could get away with
filming such a video. It wouldn't be a place where Koreans mainly went to with
their friends. It wouldn't be a place where there were few foreigners so that
they would stand out. It would be a place where there were lots of foreigners,
lots of loud music, and lots of lone, drunk Korean women to prey upon.
This just goes to
show the kind of people that made this kind of video. They were so unhappy in
Korea that their greatest pleasure was making a fetish video degrading a lone,
drunk Korean woman. They had become so unhappy and frustrated at their lives in
Korea that they chose to displace it on innocent Korean strangers that they had
never met before. Instead of dealing with whatever difficulties they had in a
smart and mature manner, they chose to blame all Koreans instead and degrade
all Koreans to relieve their own frustrations about their own lives. People can
say that Dave's ESL or those other Korea bashing sites are harmless. I do not.
Some expats say that they are simply relieving their own frustrations, but when
you keep posting the same types of things over and over again that bash other
people, it does have an effect. It affects the people reading your trash and it
affects you because you are perpetuating the kinds of attitudes that make it
okay to degrade Korean people. There are people on those sites that have been
at it for years. You can just look at their post count and how long they been
on that site to see how invested they have become in the whole process of
bashing Koreans. The more you do anything, the more it becomes ingrained in your
mind and your life. I haven't met any Dave's ESLers in real life, but I do know
that they would not be pleasant to be around. Some people are so mindless to
think that their attitudes are private. But if you repeat the same thoughts
over and over again, they become part of you and that is what you project to
the outside world, so it wouldn't surprise me that these guys continue to have
bad experiences in Korea, because that is what they attract. Unpleasant people
attract unpleasant situations. They make the smallest inconvenience that MOST
KOREANS FACE AS WELL an assault on their foreignness. No, Korea is not
inconvenient for foreigners because it has something against you. Korea is
inconvenient because you are a foreigner who does not know the language or
culture well and because you aren't willing to learn. And sometimes, Korea is
just inconvenient for everyone, not just foreigners, because some people want
to save money and not provide toilet paper, etc. or because that's just how
things have been done so far and people are used to it. Yes, some Koreans don't
like foreigners, but that doesn't mean that is the case every time and to rush
to that judgment in every situation just makes you a person with a bad attitude
that lacks critical thinking skills.
Instead of taking
responsibility for themselves and their own lives in Korea, the video makers
chose to live their ultimate fantasy by degrading a long, drunk Korean woman
and filming that interaction. And the poor, drunk Korean women had to endure
hours of agonizing degradation as these guys were trying to "perfect"
their sick fantasy. That is how they sick they are. That is how degraded they
are. And that is what you need to recognize when watching the video. It was not
a one time shot, but something that was played out several times over. We only
saw a few minutes, but the interaction with the young, drunk Korean woman went
way longer than that.
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