Korean-ism
September 19, 2007
KOREAN-ism
I just realized… We’ve been invaded! Haha! As always, I’m always the last one to know slash to realize… Pardon me for my slow brain. Anyways my IQ is 130 so it has been compensated. ;p
I saw an old friend this afternoon and she greeted me with “Anyong”! I smiled and said “Mabuhay!” She laughed at me thinking I’m in my sarcastic mood. I wasn’t. Well, not entirely though. I just greeted her with our national greeting. Well ok, I could have said “Hi” or “Hello” but that’s a universal greeting so I opted for the national thingy since she used a different greeting from another country. Universal, national? Haha Ok I made that up. That’s according to my interpretation. Well don’t blame me, I just reminisced the way flight attendants eagerly welcome.
Then we made kamustahan. In between our conversation she would insert a few Korean words, few Korean mannerisms and would talk about Korean stuff. I can’t blame him. Blame the government for making us mere educators of our competitors. Well blame ourselves for making the government make us educators of our competitors or better yet blame the broadband deal (ok, this is off topic ;p) Well actually, my friend isn’t the only one having this type of syndrome (define syndrome ;p). I mean, I was once so Korean. I tutored Koreans. I ate lunch and dinner with them. I spent 3 hours with them or even more everyday for 2 months. You can’t blame me. It is part of human nature and it’s called adaptation. But when tutorial days were over I also got over the Korean-ismish thing. I’m not in Korea. I’m in my own country.
I won’t deny though that I adored Korean fashion and jewelry, that I endlessly sang Korean songs, that I heartily cried over Korean drama and that I learned more Korean words than my student learned Bisaya words. Then, I got over it. How I wish other people would. It’s not helping our economy and our nationalism’s going down the drain. We’ve been totally driven away like strangers to our own country. History did repeat itself or actually is “repeating”. Spanish era before (reminiscing UPHS abakada) is now turning into KOREAN era now minus the rifles and chuvanesses.
I know they are helping the economy but we aren’t. Why are we patronizing Korean fashion when in fact they should be the one patronizing ours ‘cause they’re visitors? Why do we always feel ashamed to watch Tagalog movies but spend so much buying pirated Korean dvd’s? (Well, yeah there are only few pirated Tagalog films haha! Thanks MTRCB!) And most of all and the worst thing is we keep singing slash memorizing Korean songs we don’t even understand! Let’s make them patronize ours so when they return back to their lungga they would share it to others and we would have more Korean tourists.. uh.. bad plan actually… haha! How about introducing them our products that they could share to their friends back in Korea and then we could start exporting (by the way I know the best exporter for handicrafts, shells and etc.. hehe) Let’s make them feel that we have our world too, that we belong na hindi tayo katutubong walang kaalam-alam! (Ok.. just felt like saying that haha)
Geeesh.. I must have taken too much Vit. C today
Just my two cents…
Ang Taong hindi marunong lumingon sa pinangalingan ay talagang mawawala!
Haha!
Thanks!,
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