This part from your review of “Ode to My Father” really hit me - “Some people make choices. Others, like my father, were bound by duty to tackle responsibilities that would have crumpled others.”
Your father made a brave, noble and honorable choice to be bound by that duty. Many people just leave. On this Father’s Day, I celebrate his example of humanity and familial responsibility.
Those other reviews you speak of are just clueless and the one about Old Boy is just racist. I’m not Korean but I am from two other cultures that have been similarly treated by history - constantly colonized with efforts at erasure but nonetheless keeping culture and language alive. I think this is why I relate to Korean content so much. This need to survive with culture somewhat intact despite the world’s ignorance or object hatred breeds a kind of world view that people from dominant cultures just won’t understand easily. Idk maybe I’m wrong too. Just Sunday musings.
And seriously that guy needs to eat some Kimchi. Maybe if his gut was healthier he wouldn’t be so cranky. Lol
I skimmed this and noticed a trend in your writing. You accuse critics of "ethnocentrism" when I think "ethno-hatred" is more apt. Or perhaps there's a better word? Anyway, it's nothing to be upset about. You can't be liked by everyone.
This part from your review of “Ode to My Father” really hit me - “Some people make choices. Others, like my father, were bound by duty to tackle responsibilities that would have crumpled others.”
Your father made a brave, noble and honorable choice to be bound by that duty. Many people just leave. On this Father’s Day, I celebrate his example of humanity and familial responsibility.
Those other reviews you speak of are just clueless and the one about Old Boy is just racist. I’m not Korean but I am from two other cultures that have been similarly treated by history - constantly colonized with efforts at erasure but nonetheless keeping culture and language alive. I think this is why I relate to Korean content so much. This need to survive with culture somewhat intact despite the world’s ignorance or object hatred breeds a kind of world view that people from dominant cultures just won’t understand easily. Idk maybe I’m wrong too. Just Sunday musings.
And seriously that guy needs to eat some Kimchi. Maybe if his gut was healthier he wouldn’t be so cranky. Lol
I skimmed this and noticed a trend in your writing. You accuse critics of "ethnocentrism" when I think "ethno-hatred" is more apt. Or perhaps there's a better word? Anyway, it's nothing to be upset about. You can't be liked by everyone.