Clash of Western civilization and Korean culture

[skyknight]

The common saying is girls from North Korea look better and guys from South Korea look better (This could be mal-nutrition though since average height of NK guys is much shorter). Since Korean penisula is fairly small so people actually get mixed up. One of my best friends' grandfather came to China from Busan to escape gameble debt. (My friend also got addicted to gambling for years in Japan, he told us like grandfather, like grandson. ) In addition, Incheon is pretty closed to Weihai (shangdong) so a lot of Shandong native went to Korea to settle as well. For instance, the ancestor of former Korean president 卢泰愚（Roh Tae-woo， 노태우）was from Shandong. Years ago I went to dinner in a small Korean restaurant close to Grand Canyon, the owner told me his ancestor was from Shangdong as well. So I don't think there's such thing as pure blood Korean, just like there's no pure Han either.

 

[ChineseTiger1986]

The common saying is girls from North Korea look better and guys from South Korea look better (This could be mal-nutrition though since average height of NK guys is much shorter). Since Korean penisula is fairly small so people actually get mixed up. One of my best friends' grandfather came to China from Busan to escape gameble debt. (My friend also got addicted to gambling for years in Japan, he told us like grandfather, like grandson. ) In addition, Incheon is pretty closed to Weihai (shangdong) so a lot of Shandong native went to Korea to settle as well. For instance, the ancestor of former Korean president 卢泰愚（Roh Tae-woo， 노태우）was from Shandong. Years ago I went to dinner in a small Korean restaurant close to Grand Canyon, the owner told me his ancestor was from Shangdong as well. So I don't think there's such thing as pure blood Korean, just like there's no pure Han either.

True, there is no absolute pure blood ethnic, and we are not obsessed about the purity like some Korean ultranationalists here.

 

[fly2012]

do you consider yourself a han chinese or a korean chinese？

Formally as Han since in China you follow your mom. So my mom was Han even she got an obvious Korean last name (朴,park). As I mentioned, Han is more of a cultural term instead of ethnic term, as there're no such thing as "pure han". I grew up in Han culture so I am consider myself as Han. Legend says my father's side was granted name and land from King Wen of Zhou (周文&#29579 three thousands of years ago, very Han from that side. Anyway, my hometown are full of different ethnic groups so the feeling ethnic identity is not strong at all. When we had street fight, it is all based on school, class, etc. There were never tensions among ethnic groups.

 

[ChineseTiger1986]

Yeah, the modern Han Chinese are still predominantly belong to the Huaxia lineage, although we have also mixed with other East Asian groups.

To absolutely deny your own ancestry is also ludicrous, just ask any White Americans if they would deny their Anglo-Saxon root.