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Week 7
What I learned in Korea
This week I learned how seriously some Koreans take the relationship between older and younger people, and the hatred that some Koreans have for Japanese people.
Most of the Koreans that are at the lab, and that I've met at the the language exchange have been laid back about treating older people with respect, and have been pretty western. However one night I met a friends friend who knew almost no English and the first time we met he automatically assumed that I was older and started to treat me with the 'respect' attributed to elder people in Korea. It could be because he comes from a sports (soccer) background that he took it so seriously. But I can understand why some people take respect very seriously, it felt really nice to be shown Korean respect.
On a different day I took a taxi with a Korean friend and was asked what my nationality was. When I replied that I was Japanese he started to rant about why he doesn't like Japanese people and all the terrible things that they had done to them. It was good that we only needed a short taxi ride but was definitely a wake up call. I have since stopped replying that I am Japanese and just tell people that I am American when asked. This was the first time that this has happened in these 7 weeks so I do not think that this school of though is common.
Project status
I have finished the final versions of the Installation tutorials for Xenomai and PODO.