Comments on: Sisa Journal of Korea’s Growing Multiculturalism

By: ●~*

●~* — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 16:38:17 +0000

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.

By: SomeguyinKorea

SomeguyinKorea — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 06:37:39 +0000

Multiculturalism is here? Yeah! European women can now go topless on the beaches.

By: R. Elgin

R. Elgin — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 11:04:10 +0000

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.

By: Sonagi

Sonagi — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 09:53:48 +0000

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.

By: jefferyhodges

jefferyhodges — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 07:15:52 +0000

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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By: cmm

cmm — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 06:11:24 +0000

Anyone feel benevolent enough to give a paragraph summary? This kinda stuff interests me.