• International Journal of Contents
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• 제5권4호
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• pp.13-18
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• 2009

The existence of Korean schools is one of the salient characteristics of Overseas Koreans. How do such schools for Korean immigrants' children try to construct Korean ethnic identity? Also, how is immigrant children's ethnic identity developed and reinforced by the education at those schools? This paper explores these questions based on an ethnographic research at a Korean school in Paris from September 2005 to December 2007. The cultural education for immigrant children at the Korean school has a tendency to emphasize the most exotic traits of Korean culture. And this emphasis on the unfamiliar elements of Korean culture doesn't seem to help to form the ethnic identity of Korean immigrants' children. Instead, the students appear to get the sense of being a member of Koreans more from the education outside of classroom such as scholastic events than in a classroom of a Korean school. That's because scholastic events allow them to play out some of the Korean culture in more inter-ethnic settings. Therefore, it can be concluded that ethnicity of immigrant children is rather developed in inter-ethnic social contexts than born with or taught in class.

• 복식문화연구
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• 제2권1호
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• pp.145-165
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• 1994

This paper analyzes how Cultural identity described by dress in Pearl S. Buck's novel. The result shows that dress described Ethnic identity, Other cultural identity, Dual cultural identity.

• International journal of advanced smart convergence
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.172-186
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• 2024

With the globalization of the film industry, ethnic minority films have been developed and studied by many scholars for their special ethnic representation. The film "Tharlo" directed by Pema Tseden carefully explores the identity anxiety of a Tibetan shepherd. Through the connection and separation between the protagonist and traditional culture, it shows a complexity of modern ethnic identity for minority people. This study explores what kind of cinematic techniques and symbolic elements the director uses to shape ordinary characters, build a narrative space, and show ethnic representation. This paper puts forward a theoretical framework combining cinematic quantitative methods with qualitative narrative and semiotic analysis, aiming to deepen our understanding of cinematic techniques and ethnic representation, and provides a new perspective and profound insights for discussing the complexity faced by ethnic minorities in contemporary films. This study finds that Tseden's "Tharlo" successfully portrays the complex transformation of Tibetan cultural identity in the context of globalization and modernization through cinematic techniques such as fixed camera positions, long take and black-and-white cinematography, combined with the use of symbolic elements like mirrors, lambs and identity cards.

• International Journal of Human Ecology
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• 제8권1호
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• pp.95-107
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• 2007

The present study examined generational differences in ethnicity maintenance among Korean-Chinese to understand the impact of recent social change on a Korean-Chinese ethnic community in China. A total of 1355 Korean-Chinese (557 parents and 798 children), who live in Shenyang, China, participated in this study. The subjects were asked about their language use during daily conversations and cultural activities. They were also asked about their ethnic identity and perceptions of social distance from Chinese people. The results reveal that the Korean-Chinese parent generation is more likely to maintain its ethnic language, while the child generation is more likely to maintain its ethnic culture. Second, more parents than children considered themselves as 'Korean-Chinese' rather than 'Chinese'. Third, members of the child generation show less social distance from Chinese people than do the parent generation. These results show a strong tendency towards ethnicity maintenance among Korean Chinese as well as recent changes in the community. This study argues for the importance of school education and school environment in maintaining the ethnic language and culture of Korean-Chinese children.

• 국제지역연구
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• 제15권1호
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• pp.525-547
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• 2011

현재 일본에는 약 58만 명의 재일코리안이 거주하고 있다. 일본 정부와 사회로부터 다양한 차별을 극복하기 위해 민족적 주체성을 유지해왔던 재일 1세~2세들과는 달리 재일코리안 청소년기에 해당하는 재일 3세~4세들은 일본 정부의 동화정책에 의해 귀화자가 늘어나고 있는 현실이다. 이에 따라 재일코리안 청소년들의 민족정체성에 대한 관심이 고조되고 있다. 이러한 배경 속에서 본 연구는 재일코리안 청소년의 민족정체성을 결정하는 요인이 무엇인지를 밝히고, 민족정체성 확립으로부터 얻을 수 있는 긍정적인 효과들이 무엇인지를 탐색해보는 것이다. 본 연구의 주요 결과는 다음과 같다. 첫째, 재일코리안 청소년의 연령, 이름형식, 국적, 출신학교, 부모의 영향 및 한국어 능력이 민족정체성 형성에 영향을 주고 있음을 확인하였다. 둘째, 민족정체성이 잘 확립된 재일코리안 청소년은 일본으로의 귀화를 고려하지 않고 있고, 한국에 대한 관심이 높으며, 한민족네트워크에 적극적으로 참여하고 있음을 알 수 있었다. 이러한 결과는 재외한인을 민족자산으로 활용하려는 정부나 기관들에게 많은 실무적인 시사점을 제공해준다.

• 영어영문학
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• 제56권5호
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• pp.773-796
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• 2010

This essay examines, first, the possibility and limitation of Asian America as a category of identity and its political and cultural implications through various theoretical perspectives. Here, by closely reading David Mura's poem "The Colors of Desire," I will argue that "Asian America" as a category of identity is now on the verge of falling apart and its politics of identity is no longer an effective way of fighting back against racism in the US. It is because Asian America is indeed what might be called a historical block, a product of ad-hoc coalition between different ethnic groups historically situated and constructed. In this sense, it is a kind of phantasmal object that is marked by practical absence. This fabricatedness inherent in Asian America as an identity category signifies that it has no essence that is meant to define the group in a transcendental way. The internal totality and coherence of that identity can thus be achieved only by suppressing differences between various ethnic groups and positing a single 'authentic' Asian American identity and culture. More dangerously, according to Viet Nguyen, such idealization of a single subject position can reinforces ideological rigidity that might threaten the ability of Asian America to represent itself in a unified fashion. Then, he predicts, Asian America will lose its cohesive force and fall apart. Eventually, every group within Asian America will be ethnicized. The only way of escaping from this bleak situation, as Vincent Cheng argues, is to foregroud the fabricatedness and ad-hocness of Asian America and to perform "inauthenticity," because Asian America is nothing but a functional category that is marked by absence of essence or authenticity. If Asian Americans admit that they have no essence and that they are essentially inauthentic, the practice of performing inauthenticity can become what we might call an alternative Asian American culture and identity.

• 복식
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• 제65권6호
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• pp.63-78
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• 2015

This study explored culture adaptive attitudes and traditional dress donning practices among Japanese women who immigrated to Korea after marrying Korean men. Quantitative research was conducted on Korean-Japanese multicultural families. Participants were 233 married women who emigrated from Japan to Korea currently living in Seoul and Gyeonggi Province. The data was analyzed using frequency analysis, t-test and correlation analysis. The findings were as follows: First, a positive relationship was found between Hanbok acceptance attitudes(HAA) and Kimono transmission attitudes(KTA). Both HAA and KTA had a positive relationship with ethnic identity. 43.3% of the respondents thought that they belonged both to Korean and Japanese ethnicity, 30.5% to Korean ethnicity, and 26.2% to Japanese ethnicity. Similar tendency (64.8% to bicultural identity, 31.3% to Korean, and 3.9% to Japanese) was found in the ethnic orientation towards their children. Both HAA and KTA had no difference in accordance with nationality, education and income level. Second, 70.4% of women had no experience of wearing Hanbok, and 90.1% had no experience of wearing Kimono. The women mostly wore Hanbok and Kimono for social events and family weddings.

• 비교문화연구
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• 제48권
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• pp.253-287
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• 2017

이 글의 목적은 본 연구자가 에티오피아 아셀라 타운에서의 현지조사를 통해 수집한 자료를 토대로, 종족 현상을 다층적 맥락에서 살펴보는 데 있다. 생태학적 조건, 양대 종족의 숫자상 균형, 빈번한 종족 외혼 및 '젖 먹이기'라는 사회문화적 관행의 영향 등으로 인해, 이 타운에서는 집단적 수준의 종족 갈등이 거의 발생하지 않았다. 하지만 이러한 관행의 긍정적인 영향에도 불구하고, 아셀라에서는 지배 종족에 의한 차별과 위협이 지속적으로 발생해 온 것으로 파악되었다. 대개의 제보자는 종족 외혼이 종족 집단 및 공동체 구성원의 유대를 강화하고, 상이한 종족 문화를 습득하고, 사람들 간의 관용 정신을 배양하고, 혼종적(다중적) 종족 정체성을 가진 우수한 2세를 생산하는 데 기여한다고 여기고 있었다. 그러나 일부 제보자는 종족 외혼이 그 당사자의 이기적인 선택에 불과할 뿐만 아니라 종족 정체성을 손상시키므로, 결코 바람직한 일이 아니라는 입장을 견지했다. 상당수의 제보자는 현재 진행 중인 오로모화가 지극히 당연한 현상이라 여기고 있는 반면, 일부 제보자는 오로모화를 강제성, 피상성 및 생존 전략의 맥락에서 파악될 필요가 있다고 역설했다.

• 한국어교육
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• 제23권1호
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• pp.183-217
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• 2012

This study explores the identity-formation of adult Korean-American intentional adoptees who studied Korean in a Korean language center in New York from 2005 to 2007. Based on participant observation in the classroom, observations of student conversations in their gatherings, and discourse analysis of conversations related to why they were studying Korean, I found that adoptees felt that their lack of knowledge of Korean had caused them to fall short of expectations of ethnic Koreans. Stereotyped as Korean (or Asian) based on their looks, they were often assumed to possess knowledge of and skills associated with Korean culture, which they of course lacked. They were motivated to study Korean (and acquaint themselves with Korean culture) in order to meet these expectations.

• 비교문화연구
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• 제32권
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• pp.133-166
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• 2013

Using the observation technique and in-depth interview, the current study compared various aspects of multicultural education between Korea and Canada and suggested the direction Korea's multicultural education needs to take. As a part of class curriculum, the researcher interviewed the representative of Ansan Foreign Center (AFC) and the president of the Kosian's House, a NGO for multicultural educations. The observations and experiences of the researcher were also used in this study. The results of the current study are as follows. First, multicultural education is provided for the minority group in Korea, whereas multiculturalism is included and taught for every student in Canada. In addition, the current multicultural education of Korea focuses on language and culture acquisition to help the students to adjust. Canada, on the other hand, focuses on accepting other cultures and ethnic equality, creating both identities as their ethnic origin and as Canadians. Second, in language educations, both countries had students enrolled in lower school years than their age. However, the differences occurred in terms of emotional support and availability of expert teachers. Third, comparing teacher's attitude towards multicultural education, Korean teachers were not free from perceiving the multicultural student as 'different', whereas Canadian teachers have been taught since little to consider multicultural students as Canadians, but accept their ethnic backgrounds. Based on the results, the current study suggested multicultural education program for the majority group, increase in number of expert language teachers and teaching assistants, and an education program to teach multiculturalism as part of an identity of humankind. The limitations and suggestions for future studies were provided afterwards.