Comments on: Living Abroad: Expat in the Holy Land https://www.lifeintheexpatlane.com/living-abroad-expat-in-the-holy-land/ Expat Stories of Foreign Fun Living in Exotic Places Sun, 22 Sep 2019 10:43:28 +0000 hourly 1 By: MaryWitzl https://www.lifeintheexpatlane.com/living-abroad-expat-in-the-holy-land/#comment-5139 Sun, 21 Apr 2013 18:08:11 +0000 https://lifeintheexpatlane.com/?p=1501#comment-5139 I was climbing a mountain in Korea (I think it was Sorak) when I met a really nice couple, an American man from Mississippi and his Korean wife. We had a nice long chat about all sorts of things, and I mentioned that I was living in Japan. The wife gave me a long lecture about how awful the Japanese were and how cruel. I did my best to tell her that the people I knew were mainly very kind and that the Japanese who had colonized Korea were of a different generation and bore little resemblance to the younger, more culturally sensitive people I knew and loved.

It is so sad that the negative cultural encounters we have are then passed down to our children, who then pass it down to future generations.

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