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How Violence Scars A Nation
Topic Started: Apr 6 2008, 10:28 AM (197 Views)
Loveholic
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Discuss.

I really haven't given this topic much thought, even despite of everything that has happened in America that I've seen on the news, the one thing that really rocked me to the core was something happening in my own country Australia.

On the 20th of March 2008, two Korean students were stabbed by a Chinese gang at Sydney University, one of whom were killed after being stabbed up to 14 times. The other survived, but with critical injuries.

This is definitely terrible news, horrific, but what's more is that the 19-year-old Korean man who was killed was the younger brother of Lee Dong Gun, a famous Korean actor. The news of his brother's death became headline news throughout South Korea, and Lee Dong Gun commented that "Korea's view on Australia has always been a clean image, but that has now been tarnished."

Reading these articles in the newspapers has shaken me, and makes me worried of how Korea and the world view Australia because of this senseless violence. I do believe that this attack has definitely changed Australia's image for the worse among alot of people, especially the fact that it is a very personal matter.

I'm a fan of Lee Dong Gun, and this has caused me to also feel alot of grief for him, and even a part of me agrees about the shattered image of clean Australia. :( I feel bad about it.

What are your thoughts and feelings about how violence in the world affects you?
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dumuh
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The action of one person(or a gang) shouldn't judge an entire country.
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Violence is a fact of life. We can try to deny it, we can try to suppress it or fight against it, but it is a fundamental part of human nature. So it will always happen to some degree. Australia bears no blame in this.

First of, if the gang was a Chinese gang going to school in Australia, how is that your country's fault? And if the victim had been some random Korean guy instead of a relative of a famous person, would that have changed this "tarnished image" perception?

We put too much stock in our celebrities, exaggerating their importance in our lives. Don't get me wrong, this is a sad thing. Senseless violence of this kind is always a thing to be ashamed of at some level. Just don't be ashamed at your nation. Instead be ashamed that the perpetrators of this crime are also human beings, members of the same species as you and I. The tarnished image belongs to man in general, not Australia in particular. And the blame belongs to the perpetrators, not to Australia.
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dumuh
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TheMachine
Apr 6 2008, 09:55 AM
Violence is a fact of life. We can try to deny it, we can try to suppress it or fight against it, but it is a fundamental part of human nature. So it will always happen to some degree. Australia bears no blame in this.

First of, if the gang was a Chinese gang going to school in Australia, how is that your country's fault? And if the victim had been some random Korean guy instead of a relative of a famous person, would that have changed this "tarnished image" perception?

We put too much stock in our celebrities, exaggerating their importance in our lives. Don't get me wrong, this is a sad thing. Senseless violence of this kind is always a thing to be ashamed of at some level. Just don't be ashamed at your nation. Instead be ashamed that the perpetrators of this crime are also human beings, members of the same species as you and I. The tarnished image belongs to man in general, not Australia in particular. And the blame belongs to the perpetrators, not to Australia.

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