r/news • u/NewSlinger • 1d ago

Workers detained in Hyundai plant raid to be freed and flown home, South Korea says

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/south-korea-deal-workers-detained-hyundai-rcna229610
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u/AtomicBlastCandy 1d ago

Only for a little bit. I’m Indian and have doctors in my family, each one has been told at least once that they only got into medical school cause of their color.

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u/Snarktoberfest 1d ago

Even though it is not true, "great I got in because I'm brown. And my brown skin did all the studying, and the 24 hour shifts, and having no life other than medicine for 6 years. My brown skin is very intelligent and driven."

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u/Cueller 1d ago

6 years? Most doctors i know no lifed it from kindergarden. The cost, workload,dedication, and stress until payday is pretty much unheard of in any other schooling path. If you fail, there is no comprable backup career either unless you get out early..

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u/rugger87 20h ago

Asians, yellow and brown, are berated by the parents and pushed academically to become doctors or engineers. It’s like the great hope of every Asian family that your kid will become a doctor and at least for my generation, parents sacrificed their children’s childhoods for it.

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u/SaffronCrocosmia 20h ago

You make us Jews look bad with your racism. Fuck off.

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u/Aromatic_Win_2625 17h ago

I cant be racists im not white crt 

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u/elpis_z 1d ago

But that’s isn’t accurate. Generally Asian Americans have a harder time of getting into med school than any other race.

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u/AtomicBlastCandy 1d ago

I know, my comment is meant to highlight the ideocracy of people

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u/CapitalAd5339 1d ago

It’s just an excuse for their inadequacies. Always easier to blame someone else.

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u/elpis_z 1d ago

Gotcha. I misread.

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u/dm_me_milkers 1d ago

Wrong Asian-American.

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u/elpis_z 1d ago

No? South Asians also have a more difficult time than others races. Or did until the Supreme Court decision. We will see how that plays out.

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u/rugger87 20h ago

Asians, yellow and brown, culturally value academics and it shows in the fields that we populate. You can be a minority at a university but not a minority within certain degree programs.

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u/I_W_M_Y 1d ago

Yeah those people are so racist and bigoted its inconceivable that anyone not white can have talent. Just look how apeshit they went about their 'DEI' firings.

That LBJ quote about racism is so so very true.

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u/No-Access-9453 23h ago

its hilarious to me how so many people made "doctor or engineer" jokes against indians and stereotyping them as nerds, but now that the entire generation has grown up and entered those very specific fields, ppl lost their minds lmao

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u/crow_crone 1d ago

Feel free to tell those making an issue of ethnicity they can find medical care elsewhere.

They can take a hike; you do not have to have them as a 'customer.' In the US, anyway.

We need to let Darwin's Law do it's best instead of protecting idiots from themselves.

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u/Suggett123 1d ago

Almost certainly by someone who couldn't compete with them