I used to find it amusing when older white ladies would give me wary looks/clutch their purses as I walk by. One time I was walking up the ramp to my dad's practice, and some chick was ahead of me. She turned around, saw I was behind her, and starting speed walking up the ramp all while casually glancing back at me. I smh and keep walking. Get into the door and the lady is talking to my dad nervously, and then he says"oh this is my son. Maurice, this is our lawyer." smh
In Korea I learned that you can't know what it's like to be a minority unless you are one. I'm not saying my experience compares to a black person's, 'cuz it doesn't. But here I'm occasionally outraged when a taxi driver asks to see my money before he takes me anywhere or when an older Korean tells my girlfriend she shouldn't be boning a foreigner. Then I get at least a small idea for what daily life is like for black people. When it comes to racial stereotypes, even trivialities can be infuriating, and I vastly underestimated how annoying it could be.
so is whitey treated like a minority in S Korea?
Well, whitey IS a minority in S Korea, a very small minority. As I said, the experience doesn't compare, but there are parallels to whites' attitude toward black people in America: Koreans are generally afraid of big white guys, they generally think that we have bigger cocks than them, they generally think we're louder and more prone to violence and drug use than they are, they generally think they are smarter than we are, and the older members of their society generally dislike seeing us with their women.
These are all generalities, as I was careful to point out, and not every Korean thinks this way, but Korea is a very homogeneous and nationalistic society and in the past even their history textbooks (until a few years ago) have taught that their homogeneity--their pure Koreanness--has been a source of national pride and strength.
