<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:14pt">I guess the point of all this is that those who have the misfortune to be "middle-class white Americans" (maybe it's Ok to be middle-class white Brit or French or Russian, not sure, or working-class or upper-class American, for that matter, though a lot of people in those brackets would also claim to be middle class) is disqualified from this discussion. Ok, fine. Meanwhile, it's interesting to note, still no allusion, much less recognition, of the social, political, class, historical, ethnic regional factors involved in what we saw in 2008 and 2002, also in Gwangju 1980. Maybe all that stuff would be too "journalistic," beneath academic scrutiny, especially by any "middle-class white American."<br>Don Kirk<br><div><br></div><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size:
14pt;"><br><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Frank Hoffmann <hoffmann@koreaweb.ws><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Korean Studies Discussion List <koreanstudies@koreaweb.ws><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Fri, February 18, 2011 6:37:57 AM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [KS] Egypt and Gwangju 1980<br></font><br>
Same arguments all over:<br><br><span><a target="_blank" href="http://koreaweb.ws/pipermail/koreanstudies_koreaweb.ws/2009-May/007174.html">http://koreaweb.ws/pipermail/koreanstudies_koreaweb.ws/2009-May/007174.html</a></span><br>(posting from May 8, 2009)<br><br>Should Korean studies (and anyone writing about the country, or any other country for that matter) better explain what is happening instead of trying to evaluate another country's political culture according to middle-class white American rule-sets -- that's really how this comes over to me. What did we learn since the missionaries and colonialists reported their views in the 19th century. This is NOT white-washing anything! It is an issue of how to approach such a topic.<br><br>Frank<br><br>-- --------------------------------------<br>Frank Hoffmann<br><span><a target="_blank" href="http://koreaweb.ws">http://koreaweb.ws</a></span><br><br></div></div>
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