week 10 – Reply to Barry Teshima’ blog

Barry, thank you for your comment and it would be a little helpful when you read mine on it. To help you to understand right now for the effort of the Asian immigrants to be “Americanized” is not easy or maybe impossible. The reason is because nationality is, from my experience as a Korean immigrant, heavily based on culture, which has got imbedded and formed us to be who we are. Even though we try to be Americanized, it is impossible to move until we can get rid of all the memories and ways of life that identified us with. Well, I guess that Filipino guys has to acknowledge that he is Filipino from the land of Philippines and living in America as an immigrant. I am basically saying that he does not necessarily has to be “Americanized.”