Week 10 - William Chan

In the article, 10,000 Senora Lees: The Changing Gender Ideology of Korean­Latina­American Women in the Diaspora, by Kyeyoung Park, Park brings up interesting ideas about the diasporic group of Latina-Korean women. Park's ideas of Korean women being displaced as an diasporic group in South America have a parallel to the Japanese-Brazilians. The connection they have is that they are both the "minority" group in their host countries and the way they are raised aren't the same way they would of been raised if they were in their homeland country. The Korean-Latina women's ideologies are also different in the sense that they come in contact with other Koreans if they go to the U.S. or any other country. This raises the bar of differences among the diasporic group of Koreans because they create a gap or a distances between one another depending if one is raised in South America, the U.S. or in Korea.
This article relates back to me personally because my grandpa and his brothers went to Mexico first before coming to America. My grandpa and his brothers migrated to America with even Latino names; like my grandpa's name is Cecileo and his brother's name is Jose. When coming to America, my grandma told me my grandpa would have a network with Mexicans because he spoke fluent Spanish as well as having connections with his own people that were Chinese.

Does this idea of diasporic groups being raised in different parts of the world separate and segregate different groups from each other or does it raise the knowledgeably of the different people because they can communicate with people they wouldnt normally talk to ?


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Kyeyoung Park. “10,000 Senora Lees”: The Changing Gender Ideology of Korean­Latina­American Women in the Diaspora.”.