Axe Murderer
03-22-2011, 11:47 AM
I just moved to Seoul to teach English and headed to the hospital today for a pre-employment physical.
the doc told me, and im not making this up at all, that I look like Tim Duncan then asked me if I knew who this was.
later on I was observing a classroom and the little Korean kids were asked what my name is. one called me "gorilla teacher" and later "king kong."
the kicker to all of this is that I am a white guy with a dark complexion (along the lines of say christopher maltisanti on the sopranos). over here pale white skin is the gold standard of beauty, no one has ever seen a foreigner and I am percieved as a black guy. shit is crazy, racism is not cool guys.
i get stared at and pointed at to an unbelieable extent too. i walked up to a urinal and begin to piss this afternoon and the guy next to me literally turned his head 90 degrees and stared for a good 3 seconds.
...fuck mohommed ali for calling joe frazer a gorilla by the way. that shit wasn't too cool either and im not sure why he got a pass on that.
the doc told me, and im not making this up at all, that I look like Tim Duncan then asked me if I knew who this was.
later on I was observing a classroom and the little Korean kids were asked what my name is. one called me "gorilla teacher" and later "king kong."
the kicker to all of this is that I am a white guy with a dark complexion (along the lines of say christopher maltisanti on the sopranos). over here pale white skin is the gold standard of beauty, no one has ever seen a foreigner and I am percieved as a black guy. shit is crazy, racism is not cool guys.
i get stared at and pointed at to an unbelieable extent too. i walked up to a urinal and begin to piss this afternoon and the guy next to me literally turned his head 90 degrees and stared for a good 3 seconds.
...fuck mohommed ali for calling joe frazer a gorilla by the way. that shit wasn't too cool either and im not sure why he got a pass on that.