Journal 8
Bi-cultural family
We are aware that South Korea was a monoculture, and many Koreans were proud of it. But development of flight, spread of using Internet, launch of satellites and vitalization of broadcast media, etc. produced much change such as globalization. Because of the that, nowadays, there are many multicultural families in the world, and even in South Korea. As you know, marriages of couples who have different nationality and the rearing of their multi-cultural children are called 'multi-cultural family'. They should go through hardships due to different language, culture, food, custom, etc. And their children should struggle with the cultural difference, difficulty of communication, isolation, prejudice, identity confusion, etc. in schools, and even in their families such as domestic violence, so they sometimes express their rage as drugs, violence, suicide, etc. Those cause many arising problems, and the number of the problems is recently increasing rapidly. So, what could our government and we, as individuals, do for them, and what could the multicultural families do for themselves?
Our government could make camps, programs and trips for having familiar relationship between children in multicultural families and Korean children. Those would make them feel familiar with Korean culture. And the government should support a department for migrants, and also provide and support education, movies, dramas, documentaries etc. for reducing prejudice about bi-cultural people.
And we, as individuals, could visit other countries, and experience various culture for having open-mind to people who have different background. We could do volunteer work as a camp-guide, or you can be a tutor for multicultural kids because some of these families would have financial difficulties. If you are owners of companies, you could hire these people.
And parents who are in bicultural families should learn both languages for communication, and teach their culture to their kids. They should have their kids participate camps, programs etc. for adaptation in South Korea. I'm sure that people could help them, but most of all, the parents could help their kids with sincere heart.
I certainly believe that these some efforts could be a great power and could make good changes for them and for Korean society, too. And these changes would kindle the increasing number of bicultural family. South Korea could also get the increasing marriage rate and birth rate, financial benefits, good relationship with other nations, etc. I think that, now monoculture is not a source of pride, and we should embrace all of people who have different nationality. We should socialize with others. Thank you for reading.
Jungwee Cho :
답글삭제The unmber of bi-cultural family is rapidly growing with some social problems. For me, when i think about bi-cultural family, the first thought is about a marrige between a Korean guy and a woman who came from undeveloped country. But I think that some Korean guys who find a woman from other countries don't deserve to get married and also they are not ready to make someone one's wife. I think there are strict rules for seclecting qualified men.
I think monoculture is important for korean.
답글삭제But we should respect other culture. Instead we should save our culture. If we accept other culture on and on. It's hard to keep our culture.
I entirely agree with your opinion. And your solution is very useful, I think. As you said, government should provide various programs for bi-cultural family. Also, we have to think outside the box about them and do something inidividually.
답글삭제oh,.... yeah you have the vocabulary I was just looking for when I was commenting on other's post. MONOCULTURE.
답글삭제Seulgi! I think most of korean think bi-cultural couples who are Southeast Asia woman and Korean farmer or fisherman get marriaged. So, I think big problem about bi-cultural family is getting international marriage without love. Now, Government encourages korean man who is farmer or fisherman to get international marriage. Southeast Asia women come to korea to get marriaged with unknown Korean for money. I wonder if they who get international marriage will be happy.
답글삭제So, I think if you dealt with the problem, we could think about this problem when you prepared the presentation.
And then this presentation was impressive to me because I could think about bi-cultural familly.
To answer Minsu Byun's question, I have a possible solution. I guess something should be done to stop the low income korean men from having brides from places like Vietnam or China through marriage brokers. But I guess international couples who love each other and are more than capeable of supporting their family do not fall into that catagory. There is no point in generalizing all international couples.
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