My first imprssion of this pop culture class was a quiet difficult class because I did not join this class at first week. However, this class gave me an opportunity that I could think about my identity, the culture, and the race. The chances that I thought of my indentity were tha avatar and the glog. When I made my avatar, I wanted an animal image like a tiger. I wanted to show Korean traditional imaginary animal 'Haetae' that symbolized to repel the evil and protect the people. But there was no image that I wanted. I had to change my plan. Therefor, I made my avatar 'Mr. Hell'. I wanted my avatar to be very fun and humorous. I think my avartar make well on my purpose. Also, my glog showed about living in the U.S. life that I experienced for 8 months. There were 4 pictures; the first picture that I went to the Dallas to meet my cousin; the second picture with my friends; the third picture that I visited baseball field; the fourth picture that was Korean traditonal foods. I felt intersted in the avatar and the glog.
Before I came here, I had never thought about the race and the culture. Korea has one race and one ethnicity. After thinking about these topics, what I reminded at first was adopted Korean children to the U.S. I had two questions. One thing was that 'What is their indentity as Korean or American?', the other thing was 'how to define their identity?' These cnsiderations leaded me my on conclusion. The culture identity is not decieded by the race, but it is decided by where do I grow up, what do I speak languages, and what do I experience which life styles,etc. While I studied these topics, I had 'Aha' moment. Ancient Greek recognized as Greek's people if foreigners accepted Greek's culture such as Greek's customs, Greek's language, and so on, not to distingushed the people's skin color. It was very impressed with me. I had judged people depended on their skin color when I was a young. I think we should take the exaple of the ancient Greek's attitude.
During learining the divisity of the culture, I do not simply study for the culture, it is a chance to grow myself. I had lived for 26 years in Korea, so I had gone through only Korean culture. Of course, I learned about America culture in Korea. But it is different just 'knowing the culture' from 'realizing the culture'. Through the experience that I realized, I hope that I can have a step in advance.
