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Have you heard Nut rage or Nutgate? When you hear Nut rage, you may imagine that a cute character which looks like a nut expresses its rage. However, it was such a serious incident that affected Korea so much. It occurred at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York, the US on December 5, 2014. Hyeon-A Cho, who is one of the vice presidents of Korean Air, got angry at the flight attendant who served her macadamia nuts on the plane which was taking off. As Ms. Cho expected the flight crew to give her the nuts with a plate, she was displeased with the crew for serving them in a plastic bag to her. So, she made a disturbance and demanded a return to the airport and delayed the flight for 20 minutes. As a result, a great deal of people …show more content…
It typically takes the form of putting others down. It’s what “Somebodies” do to “nobodies.” Or, more precisely, it is what people who think they’re Somebodies do to people they take for nobodies. It turns out that rankism is the source of most man-made suffering,” in Huffington Post. It means it existed all over the world for a long time. Then, how is Korean rankism different from other countries’ rankism?
Koreans usually use the words ‘Gab(甲)’ and ‘Eul(乙)’ in ranking people. The words ‘Gab’ and ‘Eul’ was from Chinese ten celestial stems called ‘Cheongan(天干)’, which was used in counting number of years. In every Korean contract, a person A is called as ‘Gab’ and a person B is called as ‘Eul’, and usually ‘Gab’ refers to a superior and ‘Eul(乙)’ refers to a subordinate. So Koreans generally got to think the words as the latter meaning and they started to rank nearly every relationship between people as ‘Gab’ and …show more content…
Clearly speaking, it is an inequality in education and there are two reasons for my argument. First, there was a monopoly on studying of Korean upper class. Of course, commoners in almost all countries had trouble in studying because they had to not only feed themselves but also pay their taxes. However, in Korea, there was a law that prohibits the lowest class from participating the state examination and the social atmosphere excluded most commoners and the lowest class from studying. Thus, the upper class monopolized studying, moreover, ruling. Now Korea has an inequality in education, though everyone agrees freedom of study. In addition, it caused rankism and conflicts between more educated people and relatively less educated
Have you heard Nut rage or Nutgate? When you hear Nut rage, you may imagine that a cute character which looks like a nut expresses its rage. However, it was such a serious incident that affected Korea so much. It occurred at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York, the US on December 5, 2014. Hyeon-A Cho, who is one of the vice presidents of Korean Air, got angry at the flight attendant who served her macadamia nuts on the plane which was taking off. As Ms. Cho expected the flight crew to give her the nuts with a plate, she was displeased with the crew for serving them in a plastic bag to her. So, she made a disturbance and demanded a return to the airport and delayed the flight for 20 minutes. As a result, a great deal of people …show more content…
It typically takes the form of putting others down. It’s what “Somebodies” do to “nobodies.” Or, more precisely, it is what people who think they’re Somebodies do to people they take for nobodies. It turns out that rankism is the source of most man-made suffering,” in Huffington Post. It means it existed all over the world for a long time. Then, how is Korean rankism different from other countries’ rankism?
Koreans usually use the words ‘Gab(甲)’ and ‘Eul(乙)’ in ranking people. The words ‘Gab’ and ‘Eul’ was from Chinese ten celestial stems called ‘Cheongan(天干)’, which was used in counting number of years. In every Korean contract, a person A is called as ‘Gab’ and a person B is called as ‘Eul’, and usually ‘Gab’ refers to a superior and ‘Eul(乙)’ refers to a subordinate. So Koreans generally got to think the words as the latter meaning and they started to rank nearly every relationship between people as ‘Gab’ and …show more content…
Clearly speaking, it is an inequality in education and there are two reasons for my argument. First, there was a monopoly on studying of Korean upper class. Of course, commoners in almost all countries had trouble in studying because they had to not only feed themselves but also pay their taxes. However, in Korea, there was a law that prohibits the lowest class from participating the state examination and the social atmosphere excluded most commoners and the lowest class from studying. Thus, the upper class monopolized studying, moreover, ruling. Now Korea has an inequality in education, though everyone agrees freedom of study. In addition, it caused rankism and conflicts between more educated people and relatively less educated