Korean Immigrants in the United States
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- 2008.04.24
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- 2007.12
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Korean Immigrants in the United States 에 관한 에세이.
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Koreans are recent immigrants to the United States. The majority of Korean immigrants are first-generation people who arrived after the mid-1960s. At the same time, Korean Americans comprise the fastest growing Asian American ethnic group, with more than 1 million Korean Americans in the United States today. According to US Bureau of the Census, “The number of Korean immigrants has increased over tenfold in the past few decades, from 70,000 in 1970 to 1,076,872 in 2000.” This community, as noted above, is mainly composed of first-generation immigrants and their children, who where born in Korea and who are now being educated in the United States. Korean immigrant children are expected to negotiate and to shift their identities to meet differing expectations across various interpersonal contexts. They struggle to balance “American” and “Korean” cultural vales and norms and to use social support networks, such as family and friends, in order to deal with the stress of acculturation. Korean parents add to this stress by wanting their children to maintain and uphold their Korean values. This becomes complicated, for these same children struggle to fit in with their American peers at school and at work during the day. As Bae Yong has shown, confusion and disorientation are the result (1999).
The primary reasons for Korean immigration to the United States are to seek a better life, to pursue a good education for their children, and to be reunited with family members who moved earlier. Education is a primary consideration, for it is the principal step to entering the upper social class in Korea. Korean parents, therefore, are willing to move several times, if necessary, for the sake of improving their children’s education. Here we see that better educational opportunity for youth is one of the main reasons for immigration.
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