Why is the media portraying Seung-Hui Cho as a foreigner?
Okay, so I don't know this guy nor do I have any authority to assume anything about his life, but the media is ridiculous. First of all, almost all media outlets (except my beloved Wikipedia) are calling him Cho Seung-Hui instead of Seung-Hui Cho. Cho Seung-Hui may be his proper Korean name, but we're in the U.S. Just how people are naming him itself is a huge indicator of how the media is trying to spin this guy into some crazed foreigner instead of one of our own.
I saw headlines that said "Killer from South Korea"... well, it seems as if he immigrated here in 1992. He was eight... which means that he spent most of his life here and grew up just like any other American kid even if he wasn't technically a U.S. citizen. He's FROM Virginia.
Focusing on how he's "from Korea" or a "South Korean national" is really misleading. By all accounts, this was an American kid who probably laughed at The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and disgustedly changed the dial when he heard "La Macarena" on the radio... just like the fellow students that he murdered. Just because everybody wants to disassociate from him doesn't mean that it is responsible journalism to focus on how disparate he was from everybody else, either personality- or upbringing-wise. He was one of our own.
America... we need to wake up! We are spawning a generation of disturbed young individuals who cannot cope with their unhappiness. Kids who grow up seeing record-breaking massacres unfold on live television and become desensitized and maybe even think that they can become immortalized in infamy by being the next to one-up the previous guy. This wasn't a misunderstood international student from an unfamiliar culture. HE WAS AN AMERICAN! Take responsibility for these young adults that you are producing, and stop passing the buck to some other nation just because this psycho still maintained his citizenship there!
(I have nothing profound to conclude. Mostly I'm [selfishly] annoyed that anyone of Asian descent is still considered a foreigner in this country because I personally resent it. The end.)
I saw headlines that said "Killer from South Korea"... well, it seems as if he immigrated here in 1992. He was eight... which means that he spent most of his life here and grew up just like any other American kid even if he wasn't technically a U.S. citizen. He's FROM Virginia.
Focusing on how he's "from Korea" or a "South Korean national" is really misleading. By all accounts, this was an American kid who probably laughed at The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and disgustedly changed the dial when he heard "La Macarena" on the radio... just like the fellow students that he murdered. Just because everybody wants to disassociate from him doesn't mean that it is responsible journalism to focus on how disparate he was from everybody else, either personality- or upbringing-wise. He was one of our own.
America... we need to wake up! We are spawning a generation of disturbed young individuals who cannot cope with their unhappiness. Kids who grow up seeing record-breaking massacres unfold on live television and become desensitized and maybe even think that they can become immortalized in infamy by being the next to one-up the previous guy. This wasn't a misunderstood international student from an unfamiliar culture. HE WAS AN AMERICAN! Take responsibility for these young adults that you are producing, and stop passing the buck to some other nation just because this psycho still maintained his citizenship there!
(I have nothing profound to conclude. Mostly I'm [selfishly] annoyed that anyone of Asian descent is still considered a foreigner in this country because I personally resent it. The end.)
posted by Anny at 12:24 AM
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