Egalitarianianism vs. Confucianism (and My Family)
Fellow anti-egalitarians might be interested in reading Mike Yates's account of how three foreign English teachers here are attempting to make things difficult for folks like us who have married into the culture — The ATEK Panel: Anti-ATEK.
First, some background: Due to a large number of foreign English "teachers" here who were accused of using drugs and committing lewd acts, South Korea decided to perform drug and HIV tests on E-2 (conversation teacher) visa holders in the country, and criminal background checks on those applying for the visas. None of these checks are required of F-series visa holders (the "F" is for "family"), for reasons that should be obvious to anyone except ideological egalitarians.
The Association for Teachers of English in Korea (ATEK) issued a call ssuggesting that "[t]here is no reasonable basis to exempt Korean citizen teachers, ethnic Korean non-citizen teachers (F-4 visa holders), or non-citizen teachers married to Koreans (F-2 visa holders) from any precautionary measures that have been applied to E2 visa holders" — Equal Checks for All!
No reasonable basis? Being married into the culture implies a certain level of commitment, and it implies both obligations and rights. You treat a son- or daughter-in-law better in your home than you treat someone hired to fix your toilet.
Mr. Yates, "an F-2 visa holder" who is "married to a Korean and ha[s] a 10 month old baby," notes that the group was "cited as an organisation ‘for the 20,000 foreign teachers’ in South Korea, yet they had only three members" and "had managed to get appointed as the representative body for English teachers in South Korea without actually being appointed." When the "equal checks" call was issued, they were still "three guys and a website," but had made somehow it into the domestic and international press.
Mr. Yates says that rather than "ask[ing] for ‘equal checks’ by employment type, thus bringing Korean teachers, and their unions, into the debate," the group "chose to make it an immigration issue, sacrificing the F-Visa holders." He concludes, "Whatever the reason for this, the three people who were ATEK chose to fight me. They chose to threaten my family."
(An ATEK-operative accused me of being "a sad, sad man" for daring to call the group into question in an earlier post — Don't Victimize Me!)
First, some background: Due to a large number of foreign English "teachers" here who were accused of using drugs and committing lewd acts, South Korea decided to perform drug and HIV tests on E-2 (conversation teacher) visa holders in the country, and criminal background checks on those applying for the visas. None of these checks are required of F-series visa holders (the "F" is for "family"), for reasons that should be obvious to anyone except ideological egalitarians.
The Association for Teachers of English in Korea (ATEK) issued a call ssuggesting that "[t]here is no reasonable basis to exempt Korean citizen teachers, ethnic Korean non-citizen teachers (F-4 visa holders), or non-citizen teachers married to Koreans (F-2 visa holders) from any precautionary measures that have been applied to E2 visa holders" — Equal Checks for All!
No reasonable basis? Being married into the culture implies a certain level of commitment, and it implies both obligations and rights. You treat a son- or daughter-in-law better in your home than you treat someone hired to fix your toilet.
Mr. Yates, "an F-2 visa holder" who is "married to a Korean and ha[s] a 10 month old baby," notes that the group was "cited as an organisation ‘for the 20,000 foreign teachers’ in South Korea, yet they had only three members" and "had managed to get appointed as the representative body for English teachers in South Korea without actually being appointed." When the "equal checks" call was issued, they were still "three guys and a website," but had made somehow it into the domestic and international press.
Mr. Yates says that rather than "ask[ing] for ‘equal checks’ by employment type, thus bringing Korean teachers, and their unions, into the debate," the group "chose to make it an immigration issue, sacrificing the F-Visa holders." He concludes, "Whatever the reason for this, the three people who were ATEK chose to fight me. They chose to threaten my family."
(An ATEK-operative accused me of being "a sad, sad man" for daring to call the group into question in an earlier post — Don't Victimize Me!)
Labels: Confucianism, Corea, Education, Family, Modernist Tomfoolery
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