According to “Introduction “The Time to Fight is Now”: Asian American Women, Academia’s Socially Engineered “Privileged Oppressed,” Go Rogue, “We define social engineering as the intellectual, physical, and psychological manipulation of populations involving centralized planning and modification of the environment in order to shape and control behaviors and ideas that do not exist inherently or naturally within individuals or cultures.”
In the U.S. we are socially engineered to encourage nationalism which excludes different, foreign cultures and languages.
I am ‘hapa’ which means mixed. I am half korean and half white. My mother is white and my father is Korean. Because of the past social engineered belief that being foreign was a disadvantage I do not feel a strong connection to Korea. I don’t know any of the language because my father doesn’t know the language. He never learned korean because his mother feared that he wouldn’t blend into Orange County if he knew the Korean language.
I grew up in a small predominantly white town called Sierra Madre in Southern California which is an area without a lot of diversity, most of my friends and the family are white. I feel Korean when I’m at home with my white friends because of my appearance. But I don’t feel Korean when I’m with asian people because of my background.
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