Extrapohating
Joshua and Emily at peer-see (via Reading Monnara) coin a word-extrapohating:
ex·trap·o·hate (Äk-strÄ?p’ə-hÄ?t’)
v. ex·trap·o·hat·ed, ex·trap·o·hat·ing, ex·trap·o·hates
To infer ill will from, gross incompetence of, weak morality of or a fundamental defect in an ethnic or national group based on select encounters with members of that group, especially when expounded upon at great length.
ex·trap’o·ha’tion n., ex·trap’o·ha’tive adj., ex·trap’o·ha’ter n.
Stereotyping, ranting...blogging! I think I've extrapohated during two distinct periods in my tenure as an American in the ROK. Firstly, from 1997 to 1999, in the period when I served at Camp Humphreys near Pyongtaek. And then, from 1999, when I was discharged from the US Army, until my first websites, I did it again. The second period covers roughly my entire output as a PusanWeb contributor. What ends the habit? When you find yourself tossing whatever simplistic stereotypes you are tossing at new home at your old one. When I started hurling the same epithets at my online grad school as I do at the South Korean university where I work, I knew I needed to calm down on both counts.
It's a bad habit, but even worse when it makes it into print!
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