In the spring of 2007, many things changed in my life. It all started at SeaTac airport as my family and I slowly shuffled through the bustling, congested airplane aisles. As we neared the plane exit, my heart begun to race in a cluster of excitement, curiosity, and in the deep corner of my mind, fear. Finally, it was our turn to leave. Our family slowly dragged our luggage along, into the bland and grey hallway which smelled of strangeness. Although only few feet long, the journey through the hallway felt like a lifetime. In the end of the hallway, I was suddenly met with something I have never encountered before. America.
At the age of 8, my family and I immigrated to the States from the small Asian country of South Korea. Everything I saw, everything I heard, and every person I met was different to those in Korea. Some things were awe inducing, some things were strange, and some things were flat out scary. Over the 9 years I have lived in the states, I was faced with hardships and surprises; however, I have overcome those obstacles in life and have learned to adopt the American way …show more content…
I would be disappointed at how Korean schools didn’t have recess like most elementary schools here in America, and how Korean houses lacked comfy carpet floors. However, as time passed and as I started to grow conscious of the world around me, I started asking questions about the state of the Korean society. My biggest disappointment out of them all was the fact that there are invisible walls that separate the strong from the weak within the Korean culture, and this wall was superiority and inferiority. This is not only prominent in formal situations. In fact, this was an ideology that stained the day to day life of the Korean people. Unable to comprehend the injustice happening within the Korean culture, I was filled with disappointment and unanswered frustrations. A long time passed, the disappointment and frustration grew
At the age of 8, my family and I immigrated to the States from the small Asian country of South Korea. Everything I saw, everything I heard, and every person I met was different to those in Korea. Some things were awe inducing, some things were strange, and some things were flat out scary. Over the 9 years I have lived in the states, I was faced with hardships and surprises; however, I have overcome those obstacles in life and have learned to adopt the American way …show more content…
I would be disappointed at how Korean schools didn’t have recess like most elementary schools here in America, and how Korean houses lacked comfy carpet floors. However, as time passed and as I started to grow conscious of the world around me, I started asking questions about the state of the Korean society. My biggest disappointment out of them all was the fact that there are invisible walls that separate the strong from the weak within the Korean culture, and this wall was superiority and inferiority. This is not only prominent in formal situations. In fact, this was an ideology that stained the day to day life of the Korean people. Unable to comprehend the injustice happening within the Korean culture, I was filled with disappointment and unanswered frustrations. A long time passed, the disappointment and frustration grew