I came to a stark realization today. Korea has turned me into a BITCH. Maybe it's just while I'm here, as a self defense machanism. I sure as hell hope so.
I'm from Cincinnati, the land of the conservative and polo shirt wearing golfers. Hey, it is what it is, I'm just saying... I've always been outspoken, but a bit shy. I'm honest only to a point, and even when I really want to be rude, I'm not.
6 months later...
I'm now a loud and brash Westerner in a sea of dark hair and almond eyes. I yell at cars as I walk because they barrel out right in front of me. Any New Yorker would be proud. I say ungodly things to teenage boys who assault me every day on my way to work with "Oooo yes, very sexy! You like Korean boy?!" When I'm grocery shopping I take my cart and shove it into people who are in my way. I push over people to get to the produce I want. I cut in lines. I spit on the street. I throw my trash into buckets on corners. I drop the F bomb profusely. I wear ugly Korean clothing and think I look good. I'm brutally honest in my place of employment, and I bitch about the freezing cold building I work in nonstop.
I'm sincerely hoping this will all stop as soon as I set foot back onto American soil. This country is like "kill or be killed". If I don't shove people, my ass is going to be knocked on the ground. I'm polite to people who are rude to my face. I bow to old people who look at my in digust because I'm wearing a tank top and shorts. If I don't watch my back, someone will shove me in it.
In a culture that is so polite and heirarchal in so many ways, there are so many ways in which you have to be rude. It's almost like being rude gains you respect. But what do I know? I'm only a waeguk.
Seriously though, this hideous clothing problem has got to STOP. Jasmin is most DEFINETLEY hitting up the Gap during Christmas holidays....
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