It is true that the media has done a great job by stirring up racial tension and prejudice against Asian by showing this psychopath Cho's face all over the place and mentioning about he is being Korean over and over again. I've experience some prejudice because of this Cho today. It makes me upset and nothing I can do. I just pray that God will help open the mind of the ignorants.
2007-04-22 12:34:42 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in News & Events ➔ Current Events
Hate to say it as I am an american who fought to
defend this country for 22yrs of my life and to me
to no avail as there is still too much prejudice in
america today. America has generally been that
way for many years. Remember when we were at
war with Japan, they rounded up all the Japenese
who lived in america even the one's that were born
in america and put them in camp prisons, so
shameful to say america still is number one world
wide for prejudice towards other races, and the
kicker is the only true americans are the native
Indians and a lot of americans are still prejudice
agains them, that is one of the reasons I left
america because it is not the country that it once
was., and if you don't believe me ask the thousan-
ds that are also living abroad.
2007-04-23 15:31:04 · answer #1 · answered by RudiA 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
A non-Asian person will not have that same conclusion. A non-Asian person will blame Cho Seung-hui *and only* Cho Seung-hui. A non-Asian person will not blame Margaret Cho (the comedian) or Cho's sister, mother, father, aunt, grandparents all of whom have made statements. A non-Asian person might put some blame on the Virginia Tech University campus police (public safety) or mental health department for not taking stronger action in 2005. A non-Asian person might put some blame on V-Tech university officials for not doing more on the morning of the shooting. But a non-Asian person will not blame Asians just be Cho Seung-hui who was Asian (Korean) did horrible things.
You feel sensitive to everything that happens to you now because you feel some cultural connection to Cho Seung-hui. Other people do not feel any different toward you.
One of the reasons that reporters mentioned over and over that Cho was Korean is because foreign students are not allowed to purchase a weapon. Cho, however, was a permanent resident and therefore could purchase a gun. The media did not keep mentioning that he was Korean to cause negative attention to Korean people. If anything it would be to partially explain how he may have had difficulty adjusting to the different culture when he was 8 and therefore was teased a lot.
Kids will always tease other kids. If a person is being teased the best thing to do is ignore the teasers. Then afterward learn to forgive. It is the anger that Cho held in his heart that destroyed him. He could have forgiven those who hurt, used and abused him. He could have appreciated all that he had. He could have gone for counseling when others asked him.
Instead, Cho held anger, resentment and rage in his heart. He wanted revenge against those who he felt had treated him unfairly. He did not want counseling, he wanted revenge.
Cho Seung-hui is the one and only one responsible for the shootings.
2007-04-22 15:34:04 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Americans who are racist and prejudice against Asians were that way before Cho's ugly face hit the airwaves. This just gave them an excuse to vent their anger.
2007-04-22 12:49:09 · answer #3 · answered by BOOM 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
My friends at school joke about it in general. I know that they're being funny. I joke a little about it too. The whole prejudice thing started when the media incorrectly said that the killer was Chinese. That started the racial prejudice against Asians. If you can recall that when a U.S. spyplane was shot down in China, it brought up anti-Asian sentiments. Eventually the country got over it, but it shows that they're are some lingering issues of racism these days.
2007-04-22 12:42:55 · answer #4 · answered by Republicans2008 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Because Americans didn't think Asians would do such a thing. People know Asians can be gangsters, but not like this. By the way, I'm Asian-American, do I count as the "some Americans" you are referring to?
2007-04-23 07:17:00 · answer #5 · answered by strong_intelligent_freedom 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I wouldn't take it so seriously. The Media is making a big deal over this because for once its not a WHITE GUY who's going into schools shooting up people. but its an ASIAN.
Its the same thing for 9/11....have you forgotten how racist people are towards anyone who wears a turban and looks like he/she is from a middle eastern heritage ?
ITS THE SAME THING.
2007-04-22 14:49:24 · answer #6 · answered by cnn360coffeebubbles 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have no bad feelings toward Asians. Cho chose to do what he did. I feel such sadness for his family to be left with the death of their son but also what he did.
2007-04-22 12:53:29 · answer #7 · answered by breezy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some American's are serious idiots. Cho was probably plowed on drugs or alcohol.
2007-04-22 15:58:27 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Racism and bigotry are mental and social diseases. There happen to be many mentally and socially diseased people in the world. Walk around them as you would a pile of dog poop on the sidewalk. You cannot enlightened them. Their's is a morbid, hopeless paradigm.
2007-04-22 12:44:06 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
They are ignorant. Maybe they should be reminded of all other American phychopaths that were of other ethnic backgrounds.
They don't seem to prejudge people like themselves.
Tim Mcveigh- white
Unabomber- Kaczynski-white
Furguson-black Jamaican
2007-04-22 13:24:35 · answer #10 · answered by margherita 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋