This time, I’m going to explain an interesting thing about Japanese, Chinese, and Koreans quoting web news.
This writing might help ignorant people understand about East Asians.
Last time I wrote the latest news about cheating on an exam by Koreans and Chinese. There’s another follow-up news and I found the way the news was reported in a very interesting style which I haven’t found in English news.
First, let me explain the follow-up news.
The number one Korean newspaper “Chosun Nilbo” again wrote in its editorial on November 13.
The title is “Listen Koreans! We’ll not be cheated again anymore!”
I will roughly translate the article below.
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It is embarrassing for us to know that South Korea is known for the world leader of cheating country. It is still fresh memory to us in June of this year, ACT test was called off due to the outflow of the examination paper.
In 2010, police began investigating the outflow of the examination paper. And in 2007, Korean people took ACT test in Thailand then after returning to South Korea, they spread the examination questions before ACT test was held in South Korea. At that time, 700 Korean examinee’s test scores got invalidated.
One of men who run private supplementary schools in South Korea confessed to me the reason why South Korea is the world leader of cheating. He said it was because there were a lot of parents willing to pay money for buying the examination paper and also the people running the private supplementary schools were willing to sell the examination questions for money.
On November 8, Chosun Nilbo, which is the number one Korean newspaper, posted a picture of a suitcase which was tightly clasped by steel wire with a lock.
The organization, which handles various examinations of the US, began to send the examination papers in the suitcase tightly clasped by a wire with a lock only to South Korea. All other countries are still sent the examination papers in a cardboard box. As I look at the suitcase with a lock, it seems to me as though it is saying “Listen Koreans! We’ll not be cheated again anymore!”
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http://blog.livedoor.jp/rakukan/archives/5131502.html
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Do you think that is discrimination or racism? The special treatment arranged only for South Korean people? People are different by nationality. And recognizing the difference by nationality is not the act of racism. And it is important for anyone to have an attitude of learning the differences of people by nationality because each country has a different common sense and standard.
In China, SAT test was called off last year and two years ago also.
I found a very well said article about Chinese people’s mentality of committing cheating.
It is an article reported in 2015 by Sankei web news, which is a Japanese newspaper.
Sankei news quoted the article published by CNN news and explained why despite a lot of criticisms by the world, Chinese people never stop cheating.
It introduced the voice of Chinese person involved in education. “For Chinese people, an examination is like a game of winning or losing so cheating an examination is recognized as within the acts of fair play, therefore, no Chinese people think committing cheating is a shame.”
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http://www.sankei.com/west/news/150114/wst1501140002-n2.html
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I think this is the same reason for Koreans.
Depending on each country, people have a different take on the same issue.That’s why Koreans oftentimes commit cheating and nasty play during sports also because they don’t think it is unfair or nasty as opposed to we do. And that’s the reason why Japanese people can’t get along with Chinese and Koreans because everything is polar opposite. Japanese people say “Cheating is nasty and low!” but Chinese and Koreans say “Cheating is fair-play!” Two opposite opinions can never come to reach agreement.
This is the reason why it is important not only for us but also for you to know the reason and learn the reason of differences by nationality instead of generalizing East Asians.
I am not saying all Chinese and Koreans are cheaters. There are many Chinese and Koreans who earnestly learn and take an exam without cheating. There will be nasty cheaters among Japanese people too. But I think it is important to know the differences by nationality before quoting the exceptional case. There is a reason for why people do this and that. It all comes from their common sense and standard by their nationality.
I found an interesting editorial written by a native South Korean writer from Hangyore news, which is a Korean newspaper, dated November 18..
The title is “What is Japan for South Korea?”
The Korean writer lives in Tokyo and can write perfect Japanese is describing about Japan as below.
“For Korean people, Japan is geographically close but at the same time very far away from us in many meanings. Japan is adjacent to us but a little scary. And it’s impossible for us to understand.”
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http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20161118-00025685-hankyoreh-kr
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See, even after living in Japan and becoming fluent in Japanese language, Korean people can’t understand Japanese people at all because the difference is just too huge to accept for them.
It is not the issue of language barrier that is hindering the relationship between Japanese and Koreans but the way of thinking and common sense. Therefore, after mastering Japanese language, what Korean people find out is a huge difference in the way of thinking that makes them flabbergasted. They just can't find even one single similarity between Japanese and Korean people.
That’s why I always warn ignorant people that they need to separate Japanese people from Chinese and Koreans in their heads because the difference is really huge.
And did you notice the way news was reported in East Asia was different from your country? If it is English news, it just simply reports what happened. That’s it. But in East Asia, after reporting the news, oftentimes the writers explain why Chinese and Korean people do this and that because the national character and common sense of Chinese and South Koreans are just too different from Japanese so that Japanese people get ended up in confusion after reading news about China and South Korea if there wasn’t any explanation about the differences of common sense and national character.
For the last, let me show you a very interesting opinion about Japanese, Chinese, and Koreans by American girl who lives in Japan.
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Until I lived in Asia, I can honestly say I didn’t know the major differences between Japan, Korea, and China. I realize that’s extremely narrow-minded of me but since living in Japan, I’ve grown a lot because of having to make such a drastic change in my mindset about these countries.
However, after talking to family and friends in America as well as my ESL students around the world, I’ve come to understand that I am not alone in my confusion between the three races.
When you first live in Japan, it’s very important to understand the differences between Japanese and other Asian cultures. Once you can understand them better, you start to see why Japanese live life the way they do; and it, in turn, makes living in Japan a much more fulfilling experience.
Here are just a few of the many differences I noticed between Japanese, Chinese, and Korean culture to help you separate them in your mind, and hopefully gain more respect for each one individually.
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She is explaining the differences in details in her blog. If you’d like to read it more, please click and access her blog from the link below.
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https://blog.gaijinpot.com/japanese-korean-chinese/
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