I AM KOREAN AMERICAN

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Your Own Words Astrologically speaking, I’m an Aries Sun with an Aries moon and a Sagittarius rising, therefore that makes me a triple fire sign. Which makes me a pretty intense being.

In a nutshell, I identify as a queer, person of color, radical feminist, yogi, likes to bake vegan cookies, punk (look up white washed) that listens to a lot of offensive, sexist rap/hip hop. I’m a walking contradiction that is constantly critiquing the multi cultures in which I reside.

My parents are both from Korea which makes me full Korean by blood but I was born and raised in sunny Cali for all of my life. Due to this geological placement, I’ve adapted a little bit of everything that I have been culturally exposed to.

Unfortunately, Koreaness is not the only thing I know, and if anything, it was something that I wanted to separate from completely while I was growing up due to many aspects of the culture that I heavily disagreed with. For example: I don’t want to get married by the age of 30 and become a slave to some Korean man’s family.

I recently came back from living in Korea for the past 2 years where I tried to regain a sense of my parent’s, and essentially my culture and it turned out to be quite interesting.

Currently and probably for the rest of my life, I am filtering and processing my experiences and trying to make sense of it all so maybe one day I will find myself, and possibly a niche with others where I can feel at complete ease. I am so proud of being Korean American, but sometimes I don’t even feel like I can fit in with my own people.

sometimes….

” My heart wants to explode far away from here where nobody knows”

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