Personal Perspective: As a Korean American who regularly visits Korea, I sometimes encounter insults and slights from Korean folks. Here are a few coping responses I've learned.
For personal and work reasons, I have spent considerable amount of time in the last couple of years visiting my motherland, South Korea. Even though I stopped living in Korea when I was 10 years old, and the Pacific Northwest region of the United States is my current home, I feel a sense of psychological belonging and safety whenever I walk the bustling streets of Seoul. I feel emotionally connected to the sea of black hair around me. Korea feels like my country, even though on paper it is not.
But when I experience similar insults and invalidations while in Korea, I find myself unable to respond. Clearly name the sad reality that rejections based on social identities can and do occur anywhere in the world, although they manifest differently depending on the cultural context.
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