Then and Now: Finding My Voice

Then and Now: Finding My Voice

The essay is an autobiographical writing of Kim. She has expressed her personal experiences while upbringing in America as a perpetual outsider. She had to face the discrimination and injustice in America and the white used to say her ‘Chink’ and ‘Jap’. Her house had become the barrier in the connection of adjustment because her family members used to speak Korean and she had to speak English outside of home. In the essay, she said that she was interested in fortune that mean telling about the future to the people. She also met many fortune-teller. She liked them because they used to say good thing about her future. One day in a party a fortune-teller told her age about 12 to 17 and it was happy time of her life. But she denied the him. Actually, her teenage was preety unhappy and challenging. In the essay she  talked about Korean war and pathenic condition of Korean refugees living in United States. In the Korean war about three million people were killed and about ten million people left their home and separated from the family, society and relatives. She also talked about the racial discrimination in United States. Furthermore, American never understood that there is a country named Korea and Korean people have different language and culture. They assumed that Korea might be the part of either Japan or China. The speaker of the text used to ask whether she was Japanese or Chinese.

She also mentions that Asian allowed to live white neighbourhood but her brother was beaten by gangs of white boys. The writer was alone Asian in her class and the white American treated her as Asian foreigner. They even asked her when she came to America and when she was going back to her home country. But this discrimination led her to think and determined her to be a cheerleader in America. It was really difficult to an Asian lady. In this way, the confusions and difficult of her teenage inspired to learn about the history when she grew older. She satisfied and became when she learnt about the history of America in relation to racial discrimination and injustice to the people of other countries. 

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