Why did I hear a media person on the American news last night refer to the Virginia Tech shooter as?

Question

"a South Korean who has lived in the U.S. most of his life"? Was the guy South Korean or American? AND, if he was American, why go to all the trouble of pointing out his visible minority status/ birth in another country? AND, why don't they do this with EVERY criminal? e.g., English bank robber who has lived in the U.S. for most of his life?

Answer 1

He was not an American citizen, he was a citizen of South Korea. He was here legally on a temporary visitors permit.

Answer 2

particular, i think of the media ought to have shown the video of Cho Seung Hui. i do no longer think of showing Cho Seung-Hui's video by skill of the media is glorifying his movements. when I observed on television that 33 human beings have been killed in a mass taking pictures at Virginia Tech college, the 1st ingredient that got here to my innovations replaced into, how ought to somebody do some thing so terrible. i think of that question replaced into responded while NBC and different media stations confirmed the video of Cho. the displaying of the video extremely confirmed how disturbed Cho replaced into. He replaced right into a delusional guy, who choose help. I additionally do no longer accept as true with the assertion that the video will instant copycat killers because of the fact to my recollection, there replaced into no video of the Columbine shooters. yet there have been different college shootings after the the Columbine shootings. the nice and snug button is that there are disturbed human beings available and in the event that they'll dedicate mass murders, seeing the video of Cho shouldn't substitute something, different than(and that's what extremely concerns me) thinking of the thank you to out do what Cho has performed.

Answer 3

No one has any good answers when it comes to something so tragic!! Everyone is looking for some kind of an answer!! I guess its easier to label someone, because nobody can comprehend something so vast and devistating as that!! Could have been someone from any race or nationality!! It's too bad no one seen it coming!! I guess some people did see signs, but no one ever wants to believe anything like this is possible!! God Bless the souls that were lost!!

Answer 4

They first describe the person as Black , White , Hispanic, Asian, etc... Until they do the research and find out the correct ethnicity because you can't tell Korean form Cambodian from Taiwanese, Mongolian. How about Cuban form Puerto Rican from Mexican. Can they?

Answer 5

Pettiness. It seems his 'foreign heritage' is the cause(?) of his problems.

Of course not! What was the heritage of the Columbine shooter? All of the others?

Isn't it a shame how low we can go when we want to place ourselves above and apart from what we ourselves are so very guilty of doing?

Answer 6

His name was Cho Seung Hui, a south korean who moved to USA when he was 8, he was a very strange child so they say.

Answer 7

Good question, but by the same token, why do blacks call themselves "African American" or "African Canadian"? How many blacks, living in North America were born in, or even visited, Africa? All human life originated in Africa, it's just that my ancestors moved out earlier. I don't call myself African, European, Asian, Australian, South American or Antarctican anything. I call myself Canadian and blacks call me white.

Answer 8

The media is the biggest racist of all. You never hear them say... "The suspect was white" fifty times. Crazy people come in all colors.... its all so sad.

Answer 9

THE MURDERER WAS A SOUTH KOREAN NATIONAL LIVING ''LEGALLY'' IN AMERICA SINCE THE AGE OF EIGHT.

Answer 10

It's good the see where liberals outrage really lies. PC compliance is more important than human lives.

Pathetic.