The Three Major Waves of Korean Immigration Explained
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- Опубліковано 7 тра 2023
- Korean culture has long been a part of the fabric of American culture. But what was that journey like? The three most significant waves all happened in relation to geopolitical tensions and trends in both America and Korea. Dolly Li dives deeper. Stream Free Chol Soo Lee now on UA-cam or the PBS App.
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I feel like the Phillipines war is more forgotten than Korean war. Ok, it's not a contest. It's good to learn about each
Not to worry. A correction is a correction, not part of a contest.
If you had gloated, only then one could rightly say it was intended as a contest, not simply as a correction..
The Philippines War is probably the most forgotten war.
Most people are never taught that the Philippines had a war of independence FROM the United States.
@@john2g1now you know why is forgoten same with the reason behind the cuban revolution.
@@john2g1 cuz they lost
That would be quite the contest though. My money on most forgotten would be the Quasi-War.
The irony of excluding immigrants by descendants of colonisers.
Yeps. It's Ultra-Hypocrisy.
It's the Imperial way
The irony of excluding immigrants from a country made up exclusively of immigrants... Well immigrants, kidnapped people, and victims of a genocidal war over centuries.
@@aylbdrmadison1051 so what? would you rather be a ngr?
@@hunterG60k go move to north korea if you dont like it
Thank you for sharing this information.
Awesome thanks
My mom and I moved to the US, in 1968, after North Korea captured the USS Pueblo. My dad joined us after his tour in Vietnam.
Kinda missed the biggest wave which was the late '70s-00s. No idea why or how, but that seems like when the numbers exploded.
I used to watch M*A*S*H a whole bunch, which is set in Korea during the war (even though it was an allegory for Vietnam).
While it's a dramedy and isn't entirely accurate, it does give you an idea of the G.I.'s perspective during the conflict.
Well, the doctor's at least.
With close to Zero Koreans in the show... They also cut out the whole must make Koreans appear white part of the "Doctor's" part of the show in the form of plastic surgery...
Isn't it weird that this video doesn't address what was happening in South Korea post 1953, and why did they immigrated more between 1960-1980?
1- the did list the bill LBJ signed which opened immigration.
But, the bigger wave didn't until the '70s. And, then the following decades.
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*Soon-Ja Du*
And then there's the post war American Army bases soldiers marrying Korean women wave 😂 jk, source, my dad was a soldier in Korea and married my mom, who had been a war orphan.
Engagement for the engagement god!
Which god is that?
I find it weird in your presentation of pre-WW2 migration the push factor was brutal colonization by Japanese in Korea is what disenfranchised Koreans in the first place. I get you wanna paint the US as the racist bad guy, but you're not presenting history correctly by not even mentioning that. Everyone is my parents' and grandparents' generations are traumatized by Japanese colonization and that's ignorant that you don't even understand that as the bigger part of Korean history.
Michelle Steel is a no though.
Older generation + old California which used to be heavily Republican.
@@HKim0072 used to?!
@@PaulHo California was a red state from 1950s until Clinton in '92 in the POTUS election (LBJ was the exception).
Nixon and Reagan came out of California.
@@HKim0072 my bad, I was focused on Orange County, where Michelle Steel is.
Korea was already split once the Japanese left, the North attempted to re-unify the Korean peninsula through means of war with the end result still being a split Korea. Rather odd to leave out that caveat.
Also, Stalin was the main backer of North Korea - arming and training their army. China intervened in the war (with the urging of Stalin) for their own reasons, to protect their own national security, but I don’t think they had any particular affinity for the North Koreans at the time.
@@ChrisFarrell You're forgetting that for the U.S. this was a war fought for the capitalists against socialism: the one thing capitalists fear. The egalitarianism and democratic justice intrinsic to socialism when combined with a democratic rule (the only way socialism can exist as it's essentially democracy in the workplace), naturally counters the intrinsic greed and authoritarian nature of capitalism.
_"but I don’t think they had any particular affinity for the North Koreans at the time."_
Very true. No country did, not China, not the USSR, nor the U.S. It was always all about the money and power for each of these countries. Many if not most of the wars fought in the 1-th century were capitalists trying to stop countries from gaining socialism and democracy. That's why we keep destroying countries in South and Central America.
So instead of ending up with a democratic socialist nation and a unified Korea, we allowed an authoritarian "socialist" to take over the north. Strangely this is almost always what happens when the U.S. intervenes: an authoritarian takes power.
The U.S. just saved capitalism in S. Korea, by helping the USSR and China (who both wanted an authoritarian too, but a "socialist" Korea) destroy North Koreans chances for democracy, by refusing to let them choose socialism and democracy. Witch frankly is the only solution that can bring about lasting peace because it focuses on all of their people, not just the wealthy.
The average person really needs to understand that capitalism and socialism are *only* forms of wealth distribution. They are *not* forms of ruling a populace. Forms of rule range from democracy (rule by The People) and authoritarianism (rule by one or a few, typically the wealthy elite).
Democracy is the closest such an irresponsible and immature species as humans can get to freedom. True freedom is responsible anarchy, but cannot exist without great personal responsibility from the overwhelming majority of humanity. And authoritarianism of any kind is anti-freedom.
@@ChrisFarrell Why did the PRC intervene in Korea? The PRC wanted to preserve a North Korean Communist State, but not to dominate it. Instead, the PRC wanted North Korea to serve as a buffer between Manchuria and the US-dominated South Korea.
@@aylbdrmadison1051
Do you actually have citations in MLA or APA format to back your claim?
@@aylbdrmadison1051Damn, you can talk. Thanks for breaking it into specific points. Makes it easier to digest.
Thank you for this information. I wonder how we can grow knowing the racism of many Korean businesses in the Black community. It was a Korean woman who shot a child in the back that started one of L. A.'s riots. The Rodney King verdict was just the last straw.
Latasha Harlins (January 1, 1976 - March 16, 1991) was an African-American girl who was fatally shot at age 15 by Soon Ja Du (Korean: 두순자), a 49-year-old Korean-American convenience store owner. Du was tried and convicted of voluntary manslaughter over the killing of Harlins, based in part on security camera footage. The judge sentenced Du to 10 years in state prison but the sentence was suspended and the defendant was instead placed on five years' probation with 400 hours of community service, a $500 restitution, and funeral expenses.
Now I know these business owners didn't come all the way from another country just to kill and exploit other people. They had to learn an attitude from someone. The same someone who thought it was a good idea not to send a murderer to jail.
Look behind the curtain to see who is really causing hatred. I would like to see the Korean community have a day like Cinco de Mayo where ALL people are invited in the neighborhood where they have their businesses. Get to know the people who buy your products. 😢 Heal
For every sad story you have, there are dozens more of the latter. Those riots were savage, were you there? Seen the videos? How about, been to chicago lately?
So before you play that card to get sympathy, remember, you live in the greatest country in the world. If you do not like it, then leave.
Racism is a lie, evil is evil, but stereotypes exist for a reason.
LA Times did a really good writeup about the friction between Koreans and African-Americans (actually many articles).
@@clarkkent3809 How can the US be the greatest country in the world when it's got legal slavery, supports genocide, commits genocide, overthrows democracies, has AWFUL worker rights, mass poverty, terrible education and is a fascist dystopia
To quote Max Klinger: "I married a Korean girl, a lovely girl...EVA BRAUN would get nicer looks!"