[KS] Egypt and Gwangju 1980

[don kirk]

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."
Don Kirk





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From: Frank Hoffmann <hoffmann at koreaweb.ws>
To: Korean Studies Discussion List <koreanstudies at koreaweb.ws>
Sent: Fri, February 18, 2011 6:37:57 AM
Subject: Re: [KS] Egypt and Gwangju 1980

Same arguments all over:

http://koreaweb.ws/pipermail/koreanstudies_koreaweb.ws/2009-May/007174.html
(posting from May 8, 2009)

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.

Frank

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