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Names and the Journey to Define a Multicultural Identity in Jhumpa Lahiri's The Namesake

  • Ahn, Laura
    • 미국학
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    • 제42권1호
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    • pp.99-132
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    • 2019
  • Like many other Asian American writers, Jhumpa Lahiri writes stories that capture the experiences of immigrant families in America. What sets The Namesake apart is that Lahiri cleverly uses the names of her characters to shape their individual lives and futures not just as a first or second generation immigrant, but as people who are more than what that labelling connotes. Although the struggle faced by Ashoke and Ashima to hold on and adapt as first generation immigrants is contrasted with the search for identity among second generation immigrants seen primarily through the experiences of their children Gogol and Sonia, Lahiri uses their struggles as an immigrant family to serve as a starting point for each member of the Ganguli family to find their own identities and understandings of who they are as individuals apart from their race, history or cultural heritage so that they may truly be "without borders."

재미한인2세들의 교회 활동과 정체성 문제 - 미국 조지아 주 애틀랜타의 한인2세를 중심으로 - (Church Activities and Identity Problems of the 2nd-Generation Korean Immigrants in Atlanta, GA)

  • 이전
    • 한국지역지리학회지
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    • 제14권5호
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    • pp.573-586
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    • 2008
  • 재미한인2세는 미국에서 태어나서 영어로 교육을 받고 자란 세대인데, 이들은 영어를 잘 구사하고 미국문화에 익숙하기 때문에 다양한 전문직에 진출하고 있다. 한인2세 성인들은 미국에서 출생하여 미국 문화에 동화되고 미국식 사고방식과 행동방식에 익숙해져 미국인 정체성을 내면화하게 된다. 미국의 대다수 한인교회의 운영이나 설교에서 한인1세들은 중심적 역할을 맡고 한인2세들은 극히 부차적인 역할을 맡고 있는데, 근래 상당수의 한인2세 성인들이 한인교회를 떠나고 있다. 또한 재미한인사회에서 한인2세 성인의 인구 비중이 점차로 커지고 있기 때문에 일부 한인교회에서는 영어예배를 제공하고 있다. 미국의 한인사회에서 한인2세들의 영향력은 점차로 커질 것이기 때문에 한인2세들의 교회 활동과 정체성 문제는 미국의 한인사회 미래를 예측하는 데 매우 중요한 연구주제가 된다.

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A New Challenge to Korean American Religious Identity: Cultural Crisis in Korean American Christianity

  • Ro, Young-Chan
    • 대순사상논총
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    • 제18권
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    • pp.53-79
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    • 2004
  • This paper explores the relationship between Korean immigrants to the United States and their religious identity from the cultural point of view. Most scholarly studies on Korean immigrants in the United States have been dominated by sociological approach and ethnic studies in examining the social dimension of the Korean immigrant communities while neglecting issues concerning their religious identity and cultural heritage. Most Korean immigrants to America attend Korean churches regardless their religious affiliation before they came to America. One of the reasons for this phenomenon is the fact that Korean church has provided a necessary social service for the newly arrived immigrants. Korean churches have been able to play a key role in the life of Korean immigrants. Korean immigrants, however, have shown a unique aspect regarding their religious identity compared to other immigrants communities in the United States. America is a nation of immigrants, coming from different parts of the world. Each immigrant community has brought their unique cultural heritage and religious persuasion. Asian immigrants, for example, brought their own traditional religions such as Hinduism, Buddhism. People from the Middle Eastern countries brought Islamic faith while European Jews brought the Jewish tradition. In these immigrant communities, religious identity and cultural heritage were homo genously harmonized. Jewish people built synagogue and taught Hebrew, Jewish history, culture, and faith. In this case, synagogue was not only the house of worship for Jews but also the center for learning Jewish history, culture, faith, and language. In short, Jewish cultural history was intimately related to Jewish religious history; for Jewish immigrants, learning their social and political history was indeed identical with leaning of their religious history. The same can be said about the relationship between Indian community and Hinduism. Hindu temples serve as the center of Indian immigrantsin providing the social, cultural, and spiritual functions. Buddhist temples, for that matter, serve the same function to the people from the Asian countries. Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese, Tibetans, and Thais have brought their respective Buddhist traditions to America and practice and maintain both their religious faith and cultural heritage. Middle Eastern people, for example, have brought Islamic faith to the United States, and Mosques have become the center for learning their language, practicing their faith, and maintaining their cultural heritage. Korean immigrants, unlike any other immigrant group, have brought Christianity, which is not a Korean traditional religion but a Western religion they received in 18th and 19th centuries from the West and America, back to the United States, and church has become the center of their lives in America. In this context, Koreans and Korean-Americans have a unique situation in which they practice Christianity as their religion but try to maintain their non-Christian cultural heritage. For the Korean immigrants, their religious identity and cultural identity are not the same. Although Korean church so far has provides the social and religious functions to fill the need of Korean immigrants, but it may not be able to become the most effective institution to provide and maintain Korean cultural heritage. In this respect, Korean churches must be able to open to traditional Korean religions or the religions of Korean origin to cultivate and nurture Korean cultural heritage.

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보건실 공간이미지에 대한 국가간 감성어휘평가 비교연구 - 한국과 말레이시아를 중심으로 - (Comparative Study of Emotional Vacabulary Appraisals about Health Room Spatial Images between Nations - Focused on Korea and Malaysia -)

  • 니오메이;오지영;이민재;수지원;박혜경
    • 한국실내디자인학회논문집
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    • 제24권3호
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    • pp.129-136
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    • 2015
  • Korea is changing rapidly from a single-raced nation into a multi-national nation caused by the huge number of immigrants mostly from China, and Southeast Asian countries. Therefore, various social problems are expressed ostensibly, one of them is a difficulty suffered by children of the second generation of multi-cultural families who enroll to elementary schools in Korea. This should be solved urgently as it is predicted to be an unavoidable problem in future. Only by understanding and accepting mutual cultural differences will be the solution to various problems caused by multi-cultural society. This study aims to understand the differences of emotion about the spatial images. This study was target to Korean and Malaysian design students to perform vocabulary appraisals on the spatial images in school health rooms which used to perform various functions for education, counseling, treatment, etc. The emotional vocabularies used at the appraisal for emotion are based on IRI image languages, which were extracted by the experts, and frequency was progressed by the SPSS 12.0 application. The collected data will be compared and analyzed to ensure the reliability.

파라과이 아순시온의 한식당 경영주 및 푸디스 심층면접을 통한 한식 현지화 연구 (Study on Localization of Korean Food in Paraguay through In-depth Interviews with Korean Restaurant Owners and Foodies in Asuncion, Paraguay)

  • 정혜경;김미혜;우나리야
    • 한국식생활문화학회지
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    • 제29권2호
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    • pp.140-150
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    • 2014
  • The purpose of this study was to develop an efficient method for Korean food to make inroads into Paraguay. In-depth interviews with 15 Korean restaurant owners in Asuncion, Paraguay and foodies (food experts) who had experiences with Korean food were conducted. The results are as follows: Paraguay wants to establish economic ties with Korea currently, and economic development is ongoing in Paraguay. The food service industry for the middle class in Paraguay is now in the development stage. There are not many Korean restaurants (currently 15) in Asuncion. First and second generation Korean immigrants are operating these restaurants. It is necessary to provide support for a comprehensive food culture system by developing a menu composition system to meet local tastes, a strategy for improving distribution of Korean food materials, and a plan for sanitary management and operations.

쿠레이쉬의 『교외의 부처』와 "재인종화"문제 (Kureishi's The Buddha of Suburbia and the Issue of Re-ethnicization)

  • 이석구
    • 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.

코슬림(Koslim: 한국 이주 무슬림 2세)에 대한 한국인의 인식과 태도에 관한 연구: 대학생 설문조사를 중심으로 (Study on the Korean Attitude and Perception toward Koslim (1.5 and 2nd generation Muslim immigrant of Korea): based on the survey research)

  • 조희선;김대성;안정국;오종진;김효정;유왕종
    • 국제지역연구
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    • 제14권1호
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    • pp.277-308
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    • 2010
  • 한국사회에 아시아계 이주민 유입이 증가하고 이들과 한국인들 간의 국제혼이 증가하면서 이주 2세대에 대한 관심이 증대되고 있다. 아시아계 이주민 2세 가운데 본 논문은 한국에 거주하는 무슬림들과 한국인들 사이에 태어난 자녀 즉 이주 무슬림 2세와 이주 무슬림 1.5세에 관해 초점을 맞추고자 한다. 본 연구에서는 이들을 코슬림(Koslim)이라는 새로운 용어로 규정하고 연구를 진행하였다. 1990년대 후반에 등장하여 이미 널리 알려진 코시안(Kosian)이라는 용어가 지역적 개념에 근거한 반면, 코슬림이라는 용어는 본 연구팀이 이주자의 종교를 중심으로 규정한 종교-문화적 개념의 용어이다. 본 연구는 다문화 사회로 진입하는 과정에서 소수집단으로 살아가는 코슬림들과 그들의 생활세계에 대한 한국인의 인식과 태도를 직접 설문조사하고 분석함으로써 그들과 공존과 상생할 수 있는 토대를 구축하고자 했다. 코슬림들에 대한 한국인들의 인식 실태 및 사회적 거리감을 조사하기 위해 사회 인구학적 특성, 고정관념에 따른 사회적 거리감, 한국인들의 코슬림들에 대한 한국인들의 인지적 인식, 감정적 인식 정도를 설문조사를 통해 분석하였다. 끝으로 코슬림의 생활세계에 대한 한국인의 태도에 대해서도 설문조사를 실시하여 분석하였다.

한국 농촌사회의 변천: 농촌 인구와 가족의 변화를 중심으로 (Transition of the Korean Rural Society: On the Basis of Population and Family Changes)

  • 김태헌
    • 한국인구학
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    • 제24권1호
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    • pp.5-40
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    • 2001
  • 농촌사회의 변화를 사회 구성원인 인구와 원초제도인 가족의 변화를 중심으로 접근하였다. 연구지역은 청주시로 출퇴근이 가능한 충북 청원군 옥산면의 2개리 (근교농촌)와 도시와 접하지 않은 충북 보은군의 2개리(일반농촌)를 선정하였다. 농촌사회의 변화를 측정하기 위하여 연구지역에서 1995-1996년의 1차 조사와 1999-2000년의 2차조사를 실시하였다. 조사원에 의한 면접전수조사이므로 연도 및 지역별 조사결과를 직접 비교하였다. 일반농촌의 경우 성.연령별 인구구조는 전형적인 역삼각형을 그리고 있으며, 이 현상은 지속적인 젊은 연령층의 전출로 더욱 심화되고 있다. 젊은 연령층의 자녀세대가 도시로 이주하고, 새로운 가족형성이 이루어지지 않고, 노 부모세대만 잔류하다가 노령으로 사망하게 되면 기존 가족의 해체와 더불어 농촌의 지역사회 자체의 존속이 어려워 진다. 한편 근교농촌의 경우에도 노령화 현상이 나타나지만 청장년층에서 전출과 전입이 교차하고 있다. 그러므로, 주로 농업에 종사하는 원주민 세대의 노령화가 진행되면서 농촌의 전통적 특성이 감소하는 대신 비농업에 종사하는 젊은 연령층의 전입으로 중간 연령층을 형성하게 되므로 앞으로 도시 특성이 강한 새로운 지역사회로 변모할 것이다.

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독립운동가 신홍균 한의사에 대하여 (Korean independence activist Hong-Kyun Shin)

  • 이상화
    • 한국의사학회지
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    • 제35권2호
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    • pp.69-82
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    • 2022
  • Shin Hong-gyun was born on August 20, 1881. The second son of Shin Tae-geom (申泰儉) in Sangsang-ri, Sinbukcheong-myeon, Bukcheong-gun,Hamgyeongnam-do. His family had been practicing East Asian medicine as a family business. At that time, the families of East Asian doctors who passed the general examination of the Joseon Dynasty had been continuing the East Asian medicine business from generation to generation. Starting with exile in North Gando in 1911, he was located in Wangga-dong, 17 Doo-gu, Changbaek-hyeon. In 1915, he met General Choi Un-san in Bongo-dong, treated the soldiers suffering from cellulitis, and participated in the training process to prepare for the upcoming anti-Japanese war. However, because of a growing difference of opinion with General Choi Woon-san, Shin Hong-gyun left Bono-dong after a year and mets Sorae Kim Jung-geon and joined the founding of Wonjonggyo and Daejindan, an anti-Japanese armed group. It is said that Shin Hong-gyun established many schools in Korean villages destroyed by the Gyeongshin disaster and 14 schools were established under the names of Wonjonggyo and Daejin. After the Japanese established the puppet Manchukuo in 1931, the Manchurian Defense Forces were formed. Koreans and Chinese immigrants to Manchuria worked together to carry out a joint Korean-Chinese anti-Japanese operation towards the Japanese Empire. In 1933, 50 of the Daejindan members joined the Korean Independence Army, and among them, Shin Hong-gyun began to work as a medical doctor in earnest. During an ambush in Daejeonryeong Valley, he could not get a proper meal and, to make matters worse, got wet in the rainy season, so the situation was a challenge in various ways. At this time, Shin Hong-gyun showed his knowledge of herbal medicine, picked black wood ear mushrooms that grew wild in the mountains, washed them in rain water, and provided food to the independence fighters and relieved them of hunger. After the Battle of Daejeon-ryeong, the Japanese army's suppression of the independence forces intensified, and most of the independence fighters escaped from the Chinese army's encirclement and were scattered. Ahn Tae-jin and others led the remaining units and continued the anti-Japanese armed struggle in the forest areas of Yeongan, Aekmok, Mokneung, and Milsan.

해외 한인공동체의 문화적 정체성 읽기 - 하와이 한인농악단 활동을 중심으로 (Exploring the Cultural Identity of Korean Community Abroad Focusing on the Activities of Korean Farmer's Bands in Hawaii)

  • 김묘신
    • 공연문화연구
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    • 제42호
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    • pp.321-359
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    • 2021
  • 이 논문은 미국 하와이주에 거주하는 한인공동체를 중심으로 1970년대 이래 나타난 세 개의 한인농악단을 통해 표현되는 이민 1세의 세대별 특징과 정체성이 농악이라는 공연예술 매개체를 통해 어떻게 발현되고 변화되었는가에 주목한다. 와히아와 한인농악단(Wahiawa Korean Farmer's Music Band), 칼리히-팔라마 한인농악단(Korean Farmer's Music Band at Kalihi-Palama Immigrant Service Center), 하와이 한인농악단(Hawaii Korean Farmer's Music Association)은 각각 1970년대, 1980년대, 1990년대에 형성된 농악단으로 각 농악 단체의 형성과 연행의 역사는 한인 디아스포라의 시대적 특성을 반영한다. 오랜 기간 활발히 활동했던 와히아와 한인농악단과 칼리히-팔라마 한인농악단은 더이상 운영되고 있지 않으며, 현재는 1990년대에 만들어진 하와이 한인농악단이 활동하고 있다. 세 단체를 비교해보면 전체적인 변화의 흐름이 있는 것을 알 수 있다. 첫째 친목이 목적인 음악연행 단체에서 음악이 목적인 단체로의 변화이다. 둘째 서로의 음악적 차이를 조절하여 새로운 음악을 만들어내는 단체에서, 음악적 위계질서를 따르는 단체로, 나아가 음악적 향상을 추구하는 단체로의 변화이다. 셋째 각 단체는 무속적 원형(prototype)과 관련이 있는 단체, 농악만을 연행하는 단체, 농악과 사물놀이를 겸하여 연행하는 단체라는 특징을 보여준다. 세 단체의 차이는 구성원 모두가 이민 1세이기는 하지만 모국에서의 농악에 대한 경험이 다른 것과 사물놀이라는 음악 장르에 대한 인식과 수용이 다른 것에 근거한다. 농악을 연행하는 것이 단체의 친목에 중점을 두는 반면 사물놀이의 연행은 음악적 성취에 목표를 둔다. 나아가 이러한 변화는 농악이라는 문화적 매개체를 통해 나타나는 한국인으로서의 정체성이 더이상 외부에 알리려고 노력해야 하는 것이 아닌, 스스로의 즐거움을 통해 자연스럽게 표출되는 것으로 변화되었음을 시사한다.