There is tons of bullying going on in Korea. Last night after the awards ceremony they were playing a game where you count numbers and if you mess up you get slapped in the back by all the other people. One girl hit another girl so hard she started crying. yea we stopped the game after that

i think its the confuscious ways of hierarchy and pressure to succeed which drive people to do these things. maybe other things…

yea i felt very discriminated and not as welcomed as when i traveled through thailand. i think its just an insular community and they are use to the annoying/obnoxious american soldiers so they lump us together.

This is the 1% camp and it is a requirement that the kids speak English. They had to write some essays and pass a test before they could get admitted.

Otherwise, hazing in Asia is horrible. It’s not just Korean kids. There’s all kinds of bullying in Japan and China too.

Is it really racism or just cruelty since everyone is the same ethnicity over there?

I would say that any small insular community doesn’t welcome outsiders very well, whether it’s a farm community in rural America, or a single-ethnicity neighborhood in urban areas, etc.

Racism or just misunderstanding a cultural difference?

Neat projects though. Sounds like you’re having a lot of fun with the kids. So do you teach the course in English or do you have a translator?

This is a Noah Kagan original idea. My task for scrapbooking was to let the kids be creative. I am more interested in an objective. I guess I am always fascinated by people and how we judge others. I wanted to accomplish two things: meet a new person and show them about stereotyping.

This idea came to me randomly. I will do a post on how I get all my ideas.

The scrapbooks came out wonderfully. Some were very accurate guesses with reading, piano, sports and other things came out completely opposite. I think the majority of students got the idea of the task.

I heard some bad things at past camps where kids were throwing hot water on a girl and also making her drink Kimchi juice. Really mean stuff. I thought this would teach my students a thing or two about judging people before they know them. Seemed to work well:)

How did the scrapbooks come out? Was anyone overly malicious, or did everyone get along well once the whole thing was done?

So I realize that I just asked 4 questions in 5 sentences. Excellent and interesting idea, though.