I think it's hilarious that in both of your brains me saying "No, I wasn't bullied, this is how my childhood was. I don't really know why, but that's what it was." = Bragging about it. That being said, glad you're getting good mileage out of it. But I was expecting better than this...
Anyways, I was THE most popular kid in my class in both elementary and middle school. H.S. I was more of a Ferris Buellery type where basically I down with everyone.
Well, I had a pretty good idea this would turn south, hence the whole ending where I invite them to use it as fodder. I mean, if I had just stayed silent then it would have been "Marty's silence confirmed he was bullied".
A Starter jacket paired with some LA Gear sneakers. I'm still waiting for that look to come back around.
That sounds like bragging to me, especially with the "THE" in capital letters. Then you tried to wriggle out of it by saying "No I'm not bragging. I'm just telling it how it was. I don't know why I was so popular. I'm just such a gosh darn loveable guy and that's why I was people liked me." like that makes it any less pathetic.
Gotta have the lights in those LA Gears. Or get some Reebok Pumps. Remember Hypercolor shirts and slap bracelets? And those white college hats everyone wore? Or you had old toys like Lite Bright, Spirograph, Etch a Sketch and whatnot. Some of those cheap old 80s games were nice.
While I'm glad my childhood is such a fascinating topic for you and you're getting some mileage out of this, I have to point out that is pathetic is assuming someone was bullied because of their ethnicity and they happen to disagree with you."Minority disagreed with me, they must have been bullied" That says more about you, your mindset and your upbringing than me dude.
Honestly, it has nothing to do with your ethnicity. You would've been bullied if you were white, black, blue, or green. So, you can cast aside your delusions of victimhood there.
Don't any of you think that marti's butthurtedness might stem from the fact that growing up in the big mitten, he might look a little out of place being named... something like mark, john, paul, luke... whatever it may be, being korean race but named something like that... maybe that frigged him up real good...
I also agree that Marti was likely, and unfortunately, ostracized as a youngster and that was only compounded when he came here. I have had a couple of non-bitter Korean adoptee friends here and they have said its difficult when Koreans look at you and expect you to speak Korean and you can't. And these "arrogant western ignoramuses" that occupy most of Marti's mind are being welcomed more readily. I agree whole heartedly that would be tough. However, my two friends seemed to adjust well. Both actually married Korean women and don't spend all their day being angry at the world on social media.
Marty is a gyopo with Walter Mitty leanings.
All of a sudden everything makes so much sense!
everything about him screams gyopo. my best guess would be adopted from korea as a child before 10 years of age to a family in the north east of america. Teased a lot as a kid going to predominantly white / black schools. developed a tough exterior and had to defend koreaness and asianness to alot of kids in school. came back here in early adulthood for a sense of fitting in but still not quite fitting in. continued to defend Korea and koreans like he always has. i get that if this were the case, it'd be a tough upbringing. it would tend to make a person defensive. but, thats not an excuse to be insufferable. all of this is just my best guess.
Previous thread-Your replyI think it's incredibly pathetic that some people on here can't debate without making it personal and dismissing someone because of their ethnicity (while making up fantasy explanations that let them feel they've 'won'). It's even worse given that many of these same posters teach children of that very ethnicity AND also date/marry/raise children with people of that ethnicity. I do wonder what their home environment is towards their kids and how they'd react to someone dismissing their kid's argument based on ethnicity.
Why is Marti so obsessed with ethnicity? It is not important in the big picture of my life.You know before I went to Korea, I NEVER gave ethnicity a second thought but I became acutely aware after I arrived that ethnicity was a HUGE issue in Korea. It seemed to be an US vs THEM situation.My ethnicity and what people think about it doesn't bother me at all. Much more important things in life than what people think of various ethnicities.
Why is Marti so obsessed with ethnicity? I doubt any of us get all bent out of shape when it comes to our ethnicity. If someone makes derogatory remarks about my ethnicity, who cares? It is not important in the big picture of my life.You know before I went to Korea, I NEVER gave ethnicity a second thought but I became acutely aware after I arrived that ethnicity was a HUGE issue in Korea. It seemed to be an US vs THEM situation.My ethnicity and what people think about it doesn't bother me at all. Much more important things in life than what people think of various ethnicities.
Honestly, it has nothing to do with your ethnicity. You would've been bullied if you were white, black, blue, or green. So, you can cast aside your delusions of victimhood there.The issue is evidently much deeper than skin color. You're the kind of dweeb to claim/brag that he was THE most popular kid in school over 30 years later. It's sad; everyone saw it, and there's no amount of Marty-brand backpeddling or deflecting you can do to change that.
lots of straw men running around here. 1. no offense, but if you asked your detractors on here why they dislike you, i suspect ethnicity has little or nothing to do with it. the few times your ethnicity has come up its usually in relation to your reflexive tendency to defend anything korean. and while i'll acknowledge that isn't the best argument (you may have noticed i've never made it myself) that also doesn't mean the same logic will carry over to unrelated subjects, like schoolyard popularity contests. 2. as billy already mentioned, he didn't post anything assuming you got bullied in school. you seem to have taken the couple of posters you constantly bicker with who did actually say that and blanket apply their attitude across the rest of us. when you post about how you were the coolest kid on the playground and in that same post acknowledge that you're giving ammo for people to get their shots in, don't be surprised when users not involved in the original conversation throw a few your way.
The lack of self-awareness in this post is staggering.
Having, I assume, grown up in South Africa, I would've thought that your ethnicity would actually have been pretty relevant to your experiences there. For example, wouldn't it have dictated whether or not you had to do military service, could own land, etc etc? Didn't Apartheid concede different civil rights to the different ethnic groups in SA, and wouldn't that have made substantial impacts on your circumstances?Not trying to argue, just curious how that figures into your life experiences.
But given some of them constantly complain about Korean people and society, and that when someone disagrees they resort to personal attacks based on ethnicity, I suspect that what they say and what actually subconsciously irks them is different. And while Billy didn't do mention the ethnicity angle, an honest reaction by him would note that my response was to the claims of me having been bullied based on ethnicity and that it wasn't bragging, just a refutation. It wasn't brought up out of the blue. Finally one should note that some of the opposing arguments seem to subtly endorse or hand-wave bullying. That and the whole "I'm ignoring Marty but every thread I'll jump in just to make a personal attack, rather than debate the issue."
