Aug 25, 2011

TESOL certificate workshop in TKO: Day2

Day2:

Dr. R D from Keimyung, Korean was one of our lecturers for TESOL certification workshops in TKO. 
Before he started his lecture, he was looking for someone who is the youngest one in the room. He looked around and found me. 

He asked me " I assume you are the youngest one in this room. Don't you think so? " 
And I said: "you never know. I might be not."
This teacher immediately asked me that " would you please make me a coffee ? Because I did not know how to make it."  
 And I said, "WHAT?"


There are many things wrong with many different levels. 
1)  I payed to come here in order to learn how to teach but not make a coffee for him.
2) The youngest woman in the community's job is making a coffee for a professor.... is it???
3) How come he could become a prof even though he cannot make a coffee.
4) If he were a older Japanese prof who asked me to make a coffee I felt it was okay but he is THE American who treats women as お茶くみ women.... I still feel so uneasy on his value. 
 5) It was my first time to talk to this prof and he asked me to make a coffee for him. I felt it was very rude. 
6) This incident is the gender discrimination, academic harassment and sexual harassment. 


90% of the females participants in the TESOL certification workshop accused him; 

They yelled at him " do you think does it related how to make a coffee and the youngest women ??" "How come you cannot make a coffee" 



In conclusion, I thought that social norm in terms of females' making tea/coffee force women to make them inferior than men, which  happens not only in Asian countries but also some American males. 


I still cannot believe what happened to me.



 

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