Sisa Journal (Korean) looks at Korea’s growing foreign population and its influence on society, a trend one Marmot’s Hole commenter would no doubt call Korea’s demographics changing for the better.
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Anyone feel benevolent enough to give a paragraph summary? This kinda stuff interests me.
Do they distinguish between multiculturalism and multiethnicity? A lot of Koreans don’t make this distinction. I often read articles — in the English-language Korean papers (e.g., Korea Herald, Joongang Daily) — that speak of multiculturalism when they mean (or should mean) multiethnicity.
Jeffery Hodges
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Excellent point, Jeffery. People often confuse culture and ethnicity. All nations are multicultural in that even among an ethnically homogeneous population, people have different environments that shape their identity. A Korean from a small farming community is culturally distinct from a native of Seoul.
The SISA Journal is a dubious source for information, at best. Considering its editorial problems, who knows what bias is behind the article.
I would take it with a grain of salt.
Multiculturalism is here? Yeah! European women can now go topless on the beaches.
It writes on the variety of Korea caused by the influx of foreigners, and the multiculturism.
Pooh, the fact that Korea is a monoCULTUREd nation does not and will not change.
Each foeign community is a big oil suspension on water.
A Korean from a small farming community is culturally distinct from a native of Seoul.
Me? Well, sad to say, too distinct. I wanna drop out of Korea.
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