This morning I saw a twitter update about a Korean Air Ad, promoting its new 3 times a week flight to Nairobi, which would otherwise be great news, as Kenya embraces the East as tourist and investor numbers from the traditional western markets begin to decline following not only the European financial crisis, but internal issues such as the post-election violence in 2007-2008, as well as continued tension between Alshabaab and the Kenyan government. But it wasn’t good news. I searched the website, and found this This advert became the object of banter among Kenyans most of today. Known on twitter as #KOT, or Kenyans on twitter; the response ranged from rage,analysis, to hilarious bits about everything Korean. These were some of my tweets 'However much we try to be analytical about the word primitive, if I referred to you as such you would be offended." My first thought was that it wasn’t meant to actually mean primitive.According to the oxford dictionary, when used a...
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