Quote of the day
The manager of a government sponsored hotline for foreign brides in Korea said:
"The South Korean public is illiterate in cultural diversity, so they have to catch up and learn as soon as they can," Kwon said.
I wonder if she actually said this in English as the Reuters article suggests by its use of quotations. If so, a bit of wisdom that needs to be heeded before it's too late. It emphasises something I have been saying since the very first day my daughter entered pre-school. Since the Korean Government is so hot to get Overseas Koreans to come over here and work for peanuts in the public school system perhaps they should get some to come over and spread the word in the form of diversity training for educators from pre-school. Cultural diversity education begins with teaching the children to recognize differences as normal rather than something to be pointed and stared at or avoided.
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My Korean students (in Japan) were telling me that Korea is being internationalised from the countryside first, due to the number of foreign brides of farmers. An interesting inversion of the experience of most countries!
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