• International Journal of Knowledge Content Development & Technology
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• 제13권3호
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• pp.7-30
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• 2023

Nigeria is a country with multiple ethnic groups; as a result, English language is used as a lingua franca to enhance information flow. Despite this, the Indigenous languages of communities are mostly used for interactions, even in university environments thereby affecting smooth interaction for those who do not understand them. This study therefore investigated the impact of being a linguistic outsider on information access, learning and social wellbeing of students. Descriptive research of a case study was used for this study. The population for this study consisted of non-Yoruba indigenous students. Judgmental sampling technique was used to select 50 non-indigenous students; structured interview was used. Results showed that Yoruba indigenous language was used lightly in the classroom and heavily outside the classroom, with mixtures of pidgin and English languages. It was found that being a linguistic outsider had a negative influence on information access. However it was not a total dependent factor to social wellbeing of students who desire for their various languages to be predominantly used and for them to enjoy equal benefits with Yoruba indigenes. This study also revealed that being a linguistic outsider does not have negative influence on academic learning. It was recommended that the stakeholders in university management promote the complete use of English language in the classroom while students should be encouraged to interpret Yoruba language when spoken in the midst of non-indigenes.

• 수완나부미
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.161-176
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• 2016

This paper discusses how the concept of "bilingualism" can be used to reflect changes within Bruneian society since the 1940's. It argues that within the context of a linguistically diverse population, the various indigenous groups of Brunei used to speak their own traditional languages, but eventually learned to speak the language of the politically dominant Malays. The Malay language became a necessary additional language, hence leading to a population which could speak their own languages, alongside the Malay language. But the rise of schools teaching in English in the 1970's began to sow seeds of a different kind of bilingualism, encouraged by language shift processes among ethnic minority groups.

• International Journal of Advanced Culture Technology
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.55-66
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• 2022

As the number of immigrants staying in Korea has gradually increased since the mid-1990s, the rate of chronicle migration from certain countries such as China and Vietnam remain high. Registered foreign residents have formed ethnic communities depending on their countries of origin, and the purpose of stay, Korean language literacy, rent, and accessibility have resulted in their self-congregation or forced segregation. This study aims to explore the direction in which immigrants' residential distribution move over time, and whether the ethnic communities show any differences in the level of congregation or segregation. It focuses on identifying the residential distribution of Korean-Chinese, Chinese, and Vietnamese at the city, county, and district level across the country in Korea and examining the congregation and residential changes of three groups over the past decade using centrographic method. Comparing the location as well as the level of residential congregation or dispersion of three groups, which account for the majority of non-professional immigrants in Korea, it will provide a basis for further research on residential congregation or segregation of immigrants in the future.

• 영어영문학
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• 제54권2호
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• pp.263-279
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• 2008

Arif Dirlik in Postmodernity's Histories sees the issue of re-ethnicization in the case of John Huang, China's alleged attempt at lobbying the Clinton administration. In this view, Americans with Chinese surnames were suspected by the US Justice Department to be possible spies working for Beijing. Reethnicization here seems to serve the mainstream society in reducing an ethnic minority to a group of aliens operating for their countries of origin. However, re-ethnicization is not necessarily a one-way oppressive operation; it is often made use of by the ethnic minorities in their efforts to adapt to their country of arrival. Haroon and Karim, the protagonists of Hanif Kureishi's The Buddha of Suburbia, are cases in point. They are portrayed as winning social recognition and securing a place of their own within the hostile host society through a strategic use of re-ethnicization, that is, masquerading as 'genuine Orientals.' This study brings to light possible fallacies or misguided expectations concerning the political position of first- and second-generation immigrants. One of the fallacies is found in the racist metropolis, which regards the ethnic minorities as a sort of resident aliens, no matter what immigrant generation the latter belongs to. Another fallacy is found in the kind of postcolonial criticism that automatically regards an anti-racist critique advanced by people like Kureishi as something motivated by a confrontational tactic, that is, an attempt at subverting the colonial power relations. The conclusion of this study is that Kureishi's agenda, as presented in The Buddha of Suburbia, is neither the preservation of an ethnic identity nor the subversion of colonial power relations but survival in the metropolis. On this account Kureish's agenda can be called a micro-politics.

• 영어영문학
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• 제54권1호
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• pp.149-167
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• 2008

Korea has persisted in the notion of "ethnic nationalism." That is "one race, one people, one language" as a homogeneous entity. This social ideal of unity prevails, even in overseas Korean communities formed by voluntary and involuntary displacement in the turmoil of modern history: communities made intermittent with the Japanese colonial occupation and with postcolonial encounters with the West. Given that the Korean people suffered from the trauma of deprivation of the language caused by the loss of the nation, nation has been equated with the language. Accordingly, "these bearers of a homeland" are also firm Korean language holders. The linguistic patriotism of unity based on the intertwining of "mother tongue" and "father country" has become prevalent in the collective memory of the people of the Korean diaspora. Korean American literature has grappled with this concept of the national history of Korea and the Korean language. The aesthetics of Korean American literature has been marked by an influx of literary resources of 'Korea' in sensibilities and structure of feelings; Korean myth, folk lore, songs, humor, traditional stories, manners, customs and historic moments. An experimental use of the Korean alphabet, Hangeul, written down as pronounced, provides an ethnic flavor in the midst of the English texts. Despite its national framework of mind, however, Korean American literature as an interstitial art reveals a keen awareness of inbetweenness, and transnational hybrid identities. By exploring the complex interrelationships of cultural and linguistic boundary-crossing practices in Korean American literature, this paper argues that the poetics of the Korean diaspora challenges the closed structure of identity formation, and offers a transnational sphere to deconstruct a rigidly demarcated national ideology of "one race, one people, one language," for the world literary history.

• 영어영문학
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• 제64권3호
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• pp.347-360
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• 2018

It is ironic but not coincidental that the loss of Korean sovereignty to Japan roughly paralleled the formation of the idea of Korean ethnic identity. The coalescence of the content of this heretofore amorphous notion of a "pure" and transcendental (in the class sense) ethnic essence was, again ironically, the result both of ideologies taken from (or given by) Japan and resistance to Japanese encroachment. What resulted was the birth of a hybrid (sub) consciousness that was able to accommodate disparate, or even contradictory, realities simultaneously without any sense of contradiction (Christian and shaman for example). If, as Kim Chul has asserted, the colonial period was the most impactful in forming today's Korean society and "giving birth" to today's Korean, it becomes easy to imagine how this formation process included elements of Japanese and western culture. This meant that there was going to be an inevitable cognitive dissonance when these influences collided with the imperatives of ethnic nationalism which became the touchstone for a common Korean identity (North and South). This paper attempts to show how this split-consciousness was manifested in Yeom Sang seop's Manse jeon with the aim of identifying how it affects discourses related to nationalism and identity.

• 영어영문학
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• 제56권3호
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• pp.487-500
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• 2010

In the history of colonization, how and to what extent the colonizer interacted with the local population differed according to race relations in specific periods. Generally speaking, social or sexual contact between two communities was tolerated when race relations were relatively relaxed. When the racial relationship became aggravated, however, such contact between the colonizer and the colonized was discouraged in order to forge and maintain ethnic solidarity. In Ireland, the colonizer's interaction with the colonized was not different from that of colonized countries in the Third World. Unlike those colonies, however, the settlers, that is, Protestants, simply could not be treated as the colonizer because they had lived in Ireland long enough to assert their Irishness. Joyce is keenly interested in intergender ethnic boundary crossings. In his works, two kinds of ethno-sexual interactions are presented from two totally different perspectives. As shown in the cases of the young lady in the street stall, Polly, Milkwoman, Sheila, and Cissy, Joyce describes the interaction of Irish women with Englishmen from a skeptical viewpoint. All of those cases demonstrate typical relationships epitomizing power relations in a colonial society. They reflect the turbulent time at the beginning of the century when Ireland had to fight with England to gain its independence. At such a transitional time, the ethnic relationship became aggravated and boundary crossings were discouraged. On the other hand, through the relationship between Stephen and Eileen, Girty and Reggy Wylie, Browne and Irish ladies, and Mr. & Mrs. Kernan, Joyce presents the interaction between Protestants and Catholics in terms of romantic or human relationships rather than power relations. From his description of those interactions, we can assume that Joyce, in the time of nation building, provided a blueprint for the future Irish nation, where Protestants and Catholics could build a nation and live harmoniously.

• 대한지리학회지
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• 제31권4호
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• pp.672-684
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• 1996

최근 들어 미국의 대도시 지역은 새로운 이민집단이 계속적으로 증가하여 기존의 소수 집단인 흑인과 더불면 소수집단이 몇몇 대규모 도시에서는 백인보다 수적으로 우월하게 나타나고 있다. 이러한 변화는 일반적으로 이들 다수를 형성하게 된 소수 인종. 민족 집단들이 미국 사회에서 백인에 비하여 낮은 사회. 경제적인 지위를 공유하기에 협력자의 관계를 통하여 상승을 꾀할 것이라 기대된다. 그러나 이러한 기대와는 달리 소수 집단간의 관계는 기존에 존재하지 않던 집단간의 경계를 뚜렷이 하며 융화보다는 대립적인 갈등 관계를 보이고 있다. 본 논문은 기존의 민족집단간의 관계에 대한 연구가 백인과 흑인, 즉 다수 대 소수집단의 관계에만 지나치게 집중되어 그다지 연구되지 않은 주제인 흑인과 남미집단간의 갈등을 남미인의 민족성 등장에 초점을 맞추어 살펴보았다. 우선 민족집단의 구분을 신체적 특성을 강조하는 선천적이고 고정적인 구분과, 효과적으로 이익을 추구하기 위하여 결집하는 상황적인 구분으로 구별지어 살펴보고, 남미인의 민족성 등장을 지존에 존재하지 않던 새로운 집단정체성이 이익을 추구하기 위하여 등장한 것으로 보았다. 남미집단의 민족성 등장의 배경으로 민족집단의 경계를 규정하는 정부의 역할-1970년도 인구조사에 새로이 등장한 남미출신 범주와 인종차별수정계획에의 포함-과 내부적인 결속력을 강화하려는 조직의 등장-1960년대 후반이후의 이민을 통한 남미계의 급속한 성장과 더분 조직들의 등장-을 서로 영향을 미치며 정체성을 강화하는 것으로 고려하고, 이러한 성향이 최근의 침체된 경제상황과 복지혜택의 축소 상황아래에서 더욱 심화된다고 살펴보았다. 마지막으로 이러한 남미집단의 정체성 등장에 대하여 흑인집단은 자신들이 역사적으로 경험하여온 차별에 대한 보상으로 획득한 인종차별수정계획의 보호대상으로 인정되어 무임승차하는 것으로 간주하여 반발적인 반응을 보이고 있음에서 소수민족집단간 갈등의 근본적인 원인을 찾아보았다. 흑인과 남미인간의 갈등은 새로운 소수집단간의 현실로 심화되어, 기존에는 그다지 중요하지 않았던 집단간의 경계를 뚜렷이 하는 새로운 현상으로 일컬어진다. 증가일로에 있는 이들 간의 긴장과 갈등은 남미인들이 민족성을 고양하며 기존의 소수집단인 흑인과 경쟁하며 새로운 집단간의 전선을 형성하는 양상으로 이해할 수 있다. 이들 소수집단간 갈등은 도시지역별 각 집단의 인구규모와 전체인구에서 차지하는 비중으로 나타날 최소요구치 그리고 지역경제상황에 따라 그 빈도와 강도가 다양하게 나타날 것이다.

• 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.

• 아동학회지
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• 제29권5호
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• pp.31-50
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• 2008

The current and ethnic issues represented in child-rearing practices of Korean-Chinese families in YanBian, China, were studied with the participation of 7 primary caregivers (4 mothers and 3 grandmothers) of young children who were interviewed and observed in their homes. Current issues were categorized as competitive bilingual ability, expectations about third language learning (English), expectations of high academic accomplishment and early education, and economic challenges in parenting. Ethnicity issues included ethnic pride as Korean-Chinese, conflicts of ethnic education, participation in local Korean culture, and rearing the child to have the self-expressive and assertive characteristics of typical Korean children. Results were discussed in terms of understanding and supporting child-rearing of minorities and families with multi-cultural background.