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I actually lived opposite a dog farm in South Korea, and looked down on it from my second floor apartment. Seeing dogs eat other dogs that had died, helped ensure that I wasn't tempted to go beyond my own cultural comfort zone. Plenty of yummy food there anyway.
Very few people I worked with, had eaten dog. Being expensive seemed to be the main reason.
Of course I don't think that one culture 'has it all'. As long as we are composed of humans we will have problems, usually the larger and more diverse the population, the harder it is to govern well. I agree with most of the things you've said.
I think people in the US have children without thinking if they have a stable enough situation to provide for them. I think we marry too easily and frequently for the wrong reasons. I think our kids don't respect their elders, but on the other hand many people don't deserve that respect, going through their entire lives not learning a darned thing and never changing one opinion that they had in their twenties. I think there are too many American schools that underperform and too many students who view it as a waste of time. I think our politicians, both parties, plus agencies of the government, are owned by corporations.
Get mad - me? - I wish you'd have some constructive ideas on how to turn this thing around.
Solutions to the said problems you mentioned are better for a different thread than this man, I'm just keeping the discussion at the level where it is/was at the time I wrote my reply. Is all!
Last edited by mrconfusion87; 08-12-2012 at 01:16 AM..
It was a feature in our news a few months ago (in Scotland) it is not only the Koreans but the Taiwanese, Vietnemese and Chinese who eat dog and cats. Appalling acts of cruelty also follow with virtually no animal rights legislation to protect those poor animals in such countries
Well then, since you said everyone judges, that means your culture (America's) is fair game too. Don't get offended if Hindus criticise your country for eating beef, or Muslims for eating of pork, or if people consider American food just "fast food junk", or sneer at you guys for being "picky eaters"...
What he said. If you say eating dogs is morally wrong because it is like eating human infants, then so could eating cows be considered as. Different animals are treated as pets and/or sacred in different parts of the world. It's just that Koreans/Chinese do not care much about dogs.
Huh Only dogs and cats come under this umbrella of "Appalling acts of cruelty"? It's perfectly OK to eat cows and pigs? They don't have lives? Why is it that "culture that is not mine" is always cruel and inhuman?
None of it is OK. I do not need meat to stay alive or healthy. Have not eaten it since 1989.
But boiling and skinning an animal ALIVE??? It takes a special kink of sadism to do that.
Oh and to taste really good the need to beat the animal first.
Why I am not a huge fan on Asian culture, number one. Not sue why Westerners are so enamored with it.
For some strange reason or the other I don't see you walking the crawfish on a leash. Or letting it sleep on your couch for this matter...
And you do see the lobster or crab on a lease or asleep on your couch? Strange.
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Only dogs and cats come under this umbrella of "Appalling acts of cruelty"? It's perfectly OK to eat cows and pigs? They don't have lives? Why is it that "culture that is not mine" is always cruel and inhuman?
