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THE IDEA OF MULTICULTURAL INDIVIDUAL
'Wait, are you more Korean or are you more American?,’ other Koreans in America would ask me. ’Neither,’ I would answer, confusing them...
FEAR OF LOSING INHERITED CULTURE
Charles Taylor, in his essay Interculturalism or Multiculturalism? highlights the underlying 'fear' present in ethnic nations becoming...
CULTURALLY RELIGIOUS SOCIETY
When I moved to America, I finally got to see firsthand what was meant by a society that was ‘secular’ and ‘plural’. It meant that there...
MULTICULTURAL INDIVIDUAL II NATION
25 years after my immigration to America and not allowing myself to look back but only look forward, I did fear that I had lost...
HIERARCHY AMONG CULTURES
Given how homogenous South Korea is and the issue of diversity was never consciously discussed or taught, I received my first racism...
DEFENSIVE SOCIETY
I recently learned that a narcissist is someone who is more invested in the protection of one’s image rather than the nourishment of...
ILLUSION OF IDENTITY
I had taken ‘identity’ for granted growing up in America. Everyone was searching for their ‘identity’ — the truth of who they were. That...
WHAT IS TRUE POWER?
I came to realize what true power was only recently. It was when I wanted to write, but felt powerless to write, which set me off on an...