this commercial is hurting my brain LOL idk why but it's like...weird to me XD even though I'm white and I strive to be as fluent as this in Korean, I just find it so odd.
I just looked him up-- he's a mormon missionary! Wow, I'm from Utah and I find this really funny for some reason. But honestly, it's cool that he speaks fluent Korean and actually has full Korean citizenship.
O/T Mormon missionaries have the best foreign languages teachers. I've met five or six white blond missionary guys speaking perfect Vietnamese without an accent in the US who tried to convert me.
I really don't see how it's different from an Asian with black hair speaking perfect English sctually. I find it strange how when Caucasian people know how to speak a few words or know an Asian language well it's an amazing feat while it's just 'normal' for an Asian to be able to speak English. What's the difference?
Perhaps because there're more English-speaking countries, and a bunch of those English-speaking countries are quite multicultural, so it's not at all strange to find an Asian person who speaks English because they/their parents immigrated to said English-speaking country. There are a lot of people who aren't ethnically Caucasian or from a European country who can speak English well. On the other hand, countries in Asia are generally pretty homogeneous, and it's much less common to find someone who is not ethnically Asian who speaks the language.
I think it's because of what's seen as 'common' - a lot of us are from places in North America, Europe, etc., where speaking English is the norm, and see people of all ethnicities speaking it on a daily basis. Asians speaking decent English are commonplace. Generally, the only people who speak an Asian language in a place where it's not one of the official languages are Asians, who learn it from their families and such. Caucasians aren't typically exposed to Asian languages in a way that would allow them to learn to speak one, so Caucasians speaking an Asian language well are rare, and thus, ~amazing~
:) that makes sense. I grew up in a pretty multicultural place and my friend goes to an international school where heaps of caucasians know how to speak Japanese fluently so it's not that much of an ~amazement~ to me
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Date: 2010-08-02 11:29 pm (UTC)This is his Dad. LOL
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Date: 2010-08-03 10:17 am (UTC)I think it's because of what's seen as 'common' - a lot of us are from places in North America, Europe, etc., where speaking English is the norm, and see people of all ethnicities speaking it on a daily basis. Asians speaking decent English are commonplace. Generally, the only people who speak an Asian language in a place where it's not one of the official languages are Asians, who learn it from their families and such. Caucasians aren't typically exposed to Asian languages in a way that would allow them to learn to speak one, so Caucasians speaking an Asian language well are rare, and thus, ~amazing~
long comment is long, lol
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Date: 2010-08-02 09:07 pm (UTC)thank u :D
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Date: 2010-08-02 11:22 pm (UTC)HYUNA'S TATTOO<3
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Date: 2010-08-03 12:55 pm (UTC)and jae-woo is really sporting~~ I wanna hug hyun-a too ;____;