Younghoe Koo was born in South Korea, but moved to the US with his mother when he entered sixth grade. When I first heard about him and his past I struggled to figure out if this football player counts as an Asian athlete or Asian American athlete. How would people define him based on all of this?
When I think of home I think of happiness. Now the question for this is what makes me happy about home? First three things that come to mind are the rooms of my home: My bedroom, living room, and the kitchen.
The living room allows me to watch the TV in order to see what is happening in the world whether it’s politics or sports. I tend to watch documentaries a lot too, even though most of them are based on sports. The kitchen is where all my favorite dishes are made. A majority of them are Asian, but sometimes there’s barbecue and other ethnic dishes too.
My room is the place where I mostly sleep, but I also tend to go onto the internet as well. I mostly watch anime, but I have watched a certain web series that is influenced by Japanese animation despite the fact that it’s in 3-D. I also tend to read manga and comics, plus a few novels from time to time.
As I read through the text for this week I found it very interesting how the treatment of certain Asian immigrants reflected America’s foreign policy. For example, during the Chinese exclusion China was unable to protest due to how they were seen as weak, while Japan was able to stand up for their people in America because they were seen as a powerful nation in Asia.
Henri Meyer [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons