Friday, November 20, 2015

Week 10 Blog-Pahnia Vang

What the reading 10,000 Senora Lees: The Changing Gender Ideology of Korean-Latina-American Women in the Diaspora offers to us are the diasporic influences that transcends across Korean Latina Women from South America to them entering the U.S. The focus of the reading was centered upon Korean-Latina-Women coming to the U.S. from South America and being presented with different experiences and perspectives on Korean culture and ethnic identity due to their diasporic experiences. Because of diasporic displacements of Koreans, it is evident in the article that having a shared or almost parallel perspective of Korean culture and identity is very different among those presented here by Korean-Latina-Women from South America and those within the United States. For my own self, I have met cousins and older generations of relatives residing outside of California having quite contrasting views about Hmong culture and identity. Because of displacement, these differences are rooted in family upbringings and community influence as well as the environment.


Question: How can we grapple with the different perspectives in culture and ethnic identity in regards to the displacement of people? How can we adapt when we change our environment to another that sees things differently? Are we able to adapt?




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