Racism Reconsidered 2

As a South Korean, I know that I am very discriminating. Very racist. I tend to make very quick judgements about people. I like beautiful people and smart people and moral people too, but the rest, I do not care much for. I know this sounds awful, but when I analyze the tendencies of my soul... these are my tendencies. I know it comes from South Korea. I also know that many South Koreans consider themselves akin to Caucasians although most Caucasians have a very low opinion of South Koreans. Most Caucasians still have a very high opinion of Japanese people because they are an island state like England and because Logos (logic) and linear thinking is much more apparent in Japanese texts. With the economic growth of China, the pecking order in East Asia has changed to Japan, China, then South Korea or perhaps even Taiwan being ahead of South Korea. This really wounds the South Korea sensibility which wants to be the best. Even countries like Thailand may move higher in the pecking order of the US by giving large donations to private high schools, etc. The whole idea of moving up the pecking order is one which frightens me. America also can be very discriminating and racist. I remember watching the Godfather. People kill to move up the pecking order. Of course, it's just a movie, but it does reveal something about how races move up the pecking order. I want to pause here and say, South Koreans are also very discriminating against their own people. In light of this, South Korean racism is not all that racist in the sense that it is not something that is purely outward directed. Blacks can also be intensely discrimating against their own people. Blacks are also hot tempered. Blacks and South Koreans actually do share common traits, but if you said this to blacks or South Koreans, they'd both be offended. I know I am dealing with a negative subject matter here, and let me again stress that I am very proud to be South Korean and South Korean achievement is something to be celebrated and marvelled at, but the Pharisee attitude of South Koreans, this attitude that they did it all by themselves and through works and obedience to the law is really a bogus attitude. Barack Obama champions South Koreans for this, but surely he must realize that there was a lot of corruption, there were a lot of bribes, there was a lot of evil that was involved with the South Korean rise to international power than admitted in the history books.