EAST 213 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Korean Diaspora, Korean Nationalism, Monoethnicity

• School: McGill University
• Department: Asian Language & Literature
• Course: EAST 213
• Professor: Michelle Cho

Document Summary

By the end of ww1 around 11% of the korean population reside outside the peninsula. Korean-american community much smaller than the first 3 until after the mid 1960s but grew rapidly by 2000, it is the largest overseas korean group. Smaller korean immigrant communities in canada, western europe, latin america, and other parts of the asia-pacific. Any widely dispersed, self conscious ethnic community separated from its country or region of a(cid:374)(cid:272)estr(cid:455). A diaspori(cid:272) (cid:272)o(cid:373)(cid:373)u(cid:374)it(cid:455) al(cid:449)a(cid:455)s refers i(cid:374) so(cid:373)e (cid:449)a(cid:455) back to a nation state (armstrong 62-63) But the degree of self-ide(cid:374)tifi(cid:272)atio(cid:374) as (cid:862)korea(cid:374)(cid:863) (cid:448)aries (cid:272)o(cid:374)sidera(cid:271)l(cid:455) a(cid:272)ross geograph(cid:455) and generation, despite the attempts of each of the two contemporary korean states to ide(cid:374)tif(cid:455) all people of korea(cid:374) a(cid:374)(cid:272)estr(cid:455) u(cid:374)pro(cid:271)le(cid:373)ati(cid:272)all(cid:455) as (cid:862)o(cid:448)erseas korea(cid:374)s(cid:863) (cid:894)(cid:1010)2-63) Division in the homeland and dispersal abroad. Problem of the nation-state: both koreans (north and south) claim the loyalty of.