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21. Deauwand Myers
Vote, or perish
Years ago, some of my university students complained about my new grading policy, one that I later reminded them was instituted by the university itself at the request of the Ministry of Education.
2017-12-20 16:09
You're mean one, Mr. Trump (2)
This is the second in a series of open letters to U.S. President Donald Trump ahead of his Nov. 7-8 visit. _ ED. On the eve of Mr. Trump’s visit to Korea, and the coming of the holidays, I’m reminded of an old television animated classic, “How The Grinch Stole Christmas,” based off the eponymous book written by Dr. Seuss. In the TV special, Mr. Grinch, cruel and heartless, steals gifts and Christmas decorations from the entire town of Whoville.
2017-11-01 17:47
Men still suck
We know developing and impoverished countries are confronted with socioeconomic and sociopolitical gender inequities. However, some advanced democracies are way behind in gender equity. In particular: America, Japan and, alas, Korea. Case in point: right before the Chuseok holiday, a professor and coworker friend of mine and I were chatting. She had brought me some slices of pumpkin pie. Heavenly. By all accounts, she’s happy and healthy and her family is doing well. Laughingly, she bemoaned the coming holiday. She’s expected to do the majority of cooking and cleaning for her immediate and e...
2017-10-09 17:05
What have you done for me lately?
Janet Jackson’s 1986 pop hit, “What Have You Done for Me Lately?” is about a lover who used to do great things in the relationship, but hasn’t done anything in a long while to keep the relationship afloat. Way too often, when Republicans and conservatives talk about race relations and social justice in America, they parrot the same tired refrain: “We’re the party of Lincoln. Our party freed the slaves.” That was over a century and a half ago. Whenever I hear this refrain, all I can hum is “What Have You Done for Me Lately?” The answer is: not much, or worse, harm. Republicans, and more broad...
2017-09-06 17:05
Why Trump was right
Please, before the deluge of emails, hear me out. Venal, cruel, racist, sexist, corpulent (and like a lot of unattractive men, has much to say about other people’s appearances, when they themselves could use a gym membership and makeover), a malignant narcissist, dangerously ignorant about domestic and foreign affairs, Trump is frightening. And though I stand by my earlier assertion we’ve had worse American presidents, Trump’s psychological instability is worrying because he has complete control of America’s nuclear arsenal.
2017-08-28 17:21
Dear black people
American Otto Warmbier’s arrest, detention and subsequent death isn’t news anymore. It was widely covered. Less discussed is the reaction said incident garnered from some fellow African-Americans, and colored people more broadly. Blogs, essays, and Facebook commentary too often reflected a cruelty I found shocking and morally reprehensible. “He got what he deserved.” “He was a frat boy; served him right.” “White, male privilege made him think he could break North Korean law and get away with it.” “I can’t muster any sympathy for him with all these police killings of black people in America.”
2017-07-31 18:13
Changing Moon
President Moon is a politician. Let us start there. Politicians hold an interesting place in a democracy’s psyche. They inhabit the space similar to celebrities. We build them up to tear them down. We hold them to standards impossible to maintain. Like police officers, we act as if politicians are enlisted from some other-where, some distant constellation where human faults and frailties are not present. There are honorable politicians; there are honorable police officers and famous people, and the majority of them are more good than not.
2017-07-03 17:31
If I may, I would ask Koreans to be proud
When asked to speak at “The Korea Times” Forum, I was taken aback by the topic. I told my editor as much: it sounds Western-centric, and maybe even racist. For one, it works on the illogic of generalities and presumptions. Koreans are: fill in the blank. As an expat myself, I dislike being stereotyped. A bit of that’s being perpetrated in entertaining this question.
2017-06-27 17:23
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How North Korea came to be
Now that Korea’s presidential election is over, Korea’s relationship with the North will be analyzed anew. In evaluating the North, some perspective on how it came to be, and its deep animosity towards the West, and the United States in particular, should be explored. Most Americans, indeed, most Westerners, know precious little about the aptly titled “Forgotten War.” What little they do know are the broadest of strokes: over 3 million dead; a bifurcation of North and South Korea; decades of hostility; and an uneasy armistice between the two Koreas.
2017-06-05 17:43
We are all Trump
As the Park Administration has come to an inglorious end, and the Trump Administration becomes more mired in scandal and controversy, I’ve noticed an odd, ahistorical, holier-than-thou aura about both of these politicians and their faults espoused by the masses analyzing them.
2017-05-01 16:14
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