I think Americans tend to express hostility/dominance through anger. It's interesting to see other cultural modes.
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@ClarkHat I don't know if that's a wider Korean cultural construct but it seems incredibly weird to this American viewer. -
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@ClarkHat Always be a bear. -
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@mr_archenemy@ClarkHat The 'nice' main character only shows it rarely. HIS boss shows it all the time. -
@St_Rev@mr_archenemy@ClarkHat e.g., passive-aggressive "nice" down South; "I'll pray for you" as derogatory in some churches. -
@popelizbet@mr_archenemy@ClarkHat Seems like there's a lot more disgust expressed than I've seen in Chinese or Japanese productions though -
@popelizbet@mr_archenemy@ClarkHat AND more overt physical abuse. But I'm going off limited data here. -
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@ClarkHat@popelizbet@mr_archenemy The thing that gives me pause is that there's clearly a lot of structure embedded in honorifics. -
@ClarkHat@popelizbet@mr_archenemy It's repeatedly referenced but it's essentially opaque to an outsider. So I assume lots of context there
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@ClarkHat I only take r/k seriously if the person invoking it can write down the differential equations and solve them. (ie I don't)
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