I'd honestly feel better to hear someone calling us dog eating chingchong than this tankie shit. At least they're open about being racist and there's some truth to it.
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It's negative generalizations about everyone from a specific country/ethnicity.
I found a good reply on old.reddit that goes into the slippery slope of generalization > stereotype > prejudice > overt racism: https://old.reddit.com/r/AskSocialScience/comments/nqoas/what_is_the_difference_between_generalizations/
Oh so generalizing that all South Koreans are ignorant/materialistic, is that what was meant?
I can definitely see how that could be racist although I also see people making statements like this all the time and they’re rarely called out. But maybe they should be.
I guess I’m still confused because the quoted text isn’t really a generalization. It’s not totally clear to me what is being said there but I’m not picking up the racist undertones in that section. But maybe OP was responding to the whole comment as you suggested.
There's a lot of stupid generalizations there: SK is an american enclave, "their" lives evolve around ... And the other nutter who was saying that "their wives" put on make up to look white. It's stupid generalizations and profound prejudice, but it's not overt racism (I think). On that slippery slope scale I posted earlier of: generalization > stereotype > prejudice > overt racism, they are at the stage of prejudice. So it's not overt racism, but it shows a racist mindset (Imo).