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THE IDEA OF MULTICULTURAL INDIVIDUAL
'Wait, are you more Korean or are you more American?,’ other Koreans in America would ask me. ’Neither,’ I would answer, confusing them...
PHENOMENON OF SELF-SEGREGATION
My university campus in Philadelphia was diverse and it was evident that the school made a conscious effort to bring diversity to the...
THE MECHANISM OF INTEGRATION
How does anyone come to develop a sense of belonging and emotional identification with a society? In tracing my own experience of...
GROUP RIGHTS OR CIVIL RIGHTS?
I came across an Asian-German association in Berlin who shared a feeling of marginalization growing up as Asians in Germany and felt like...
EVERYBODY IS THE CENTER
When I described Germany as monocultural, a German friend of mine corrected me: ‘Germany is multicultural, not monocultural. We have...
A FOREIGN NAME
A neighbor of mine, Adaku, born to a German mother and a Nigerian father in Dusseldorf, was purposely given a Nigerian name, along with her
CONCEPT OF BECOMING
When I moved to Germany in 2015, I couldn't help but wonder had my family immigrated to Germany instead of America when I was 13, if I would