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