My PalTalk Conversation (Out Of Class)

A. Summary

I was talking with four people. We were in the same room. David is the host of the room. He is living in Pittsburgh. He served in the army for 20 years. He retired now. Surprisingly, he stayed in Seoul at 88 Olympics. Anyway, Felewa is a Germany. She is 23years old. She is interested in learning Japanese. There was a man whose ID is smile but I don't know his name because he didn't tell us his name. All I know about him is that he was born at China but he is living in Japan now. His English was quiet good so I was impressed.

We were talking about differences between English and other language such as Korean, Chinese, Japanese. For example, we talked different sentence structure. I told them that Europeans were better than Asian in learning English because of the alphabet and sentence structure. They agreed with my opinion. We also talked about Pittsburgh. Actually, Felewa and David were talking about it because Felewa was interested in Pittsburgh. I didn't remember what they said except civil war.

It was so difficult to find a nice and good conversational partners. However, it was great time. As you said, we could improve speaking skills and listening skills. Thank you.

The Race for Equality (In-class)

A. Summary

Opinion 1.
There is no doubt in her mind that Korea has racism problem. For example, English academy which is in Korea most likely hire white people. They don't hire the others such as Asian, black people even if they are as good as White people in teaching English. Many people have negative
view of black.

Opinion 2.
He thinks that Koreans' negative view comes from American T.V and American military. The blacks in American military make bad impression because they are in the military. It seems that black people are always being represented as villains. It's no wonder that Korean has negative view of black people. It can be excuse because it clearly shows discrimination of race.

Opinion 3.
He thinks that second speaker was missing the point. If we show in T.V, most T.V stars have white skins and some people having black skins are treated like crooks or simple-minded people.
Most of them are working low class jobs in Korea.

Opinion 4.
She thinks that some of people who comes from foreign country are trying hard such as learning language and working hard. However, we never really accept them because they are different. We should accept and them into our society.

My opinion.
I agree with the last speaker. We should respect them even though they are different or they comes from poor country.

I thinks that there is no easy and fast way to prevent racism in Korea. To prevent racism, we should try to understand them. If they appear in T.V show like documentary, it could help people to understand them. We should know that they are not much different with us.