"I think it's white people that make them like that." I'm not entirely sure what's meant by this line, nor what justification for holding this belief exists. Was their a pattern of Asian-American drug dealers? Both Asian Americans and African Americans faced similar hardships during the mid-late 1900s.
Dong mentioned that if he could ever afford a pair of blue jeans, he would never wear them, and instead just look at them. Once he got his own store though, he ays that he "just [wears] jeans and a T-shirt to work." This indicates that his perception of America has drastically altered since seeing the American soldiers in Korea and actually migrating to the United States to live.
The root drive outlined by Sean Suh for being in a gang (drive for attention, respect, etc.) can be traced back to tribal and even prehistoric times, when the functional community consisted of a group leader with males duking it out for the top spot. Sean Suh's description of a gang is also very relatable to this because of the availability of females. While not necessarily the main force, it can still be considered a significant one, with the more popular gang members having "priority access" to the females.
The Occupy movement found probably take a few cues from the Korean peace march.
It'd be nice to have gotten a second perspective on the Korean peace march. I would have loved to have compared and contrasted the two perspectives and what factors influenced each one.
Paul Kim makes some interesting generalizations about Korean families. Based on what we've read in Strangers From A Different Shore, I think that Kim was trying to be realistic, as many of his descriptions do make a certain degree of logical sense for many Korean families. However, I can't help but feel that his perspective is at least moderately skewed from reality simply because he is a police officer. As a police officer, he sees and experiences Korean culture differently than the merchants and shopkeepers.
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