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by Sam Roggeveen - 29 June 2012 5:16PM
If you've been following the ABC's Dumb, Drunk & Racist and are feeling a little low about Australian multiculturalism, console yourself with the fact that at least a major Australian TV network would never put to air a news report like this one from South Korea's biggest network, MBC:
This response from one American living in Korea was rather cutting (nb. the t-shirt reads 'foreigner'):
(H/t Robert Kelly at Asian Security Blog, who points out that this is not all good-hearted fun and that Korea has some serious racism problems. More background to the MBC story and the furore it created here.)
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