Word: koreans
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...communities cannot afford or attract qualified bilingual teachers in all -- or any -- of the subjects students may need. Says Gloria McDonell, director of the Fairfax County E.S.L. program: "We don't teach bilingual education because it's impractical. It's hard to find someone who can teach math in Korean...
...even Native Americans -- can influence others to see the world in a different light. To dramatize how the forces that ravaged the buffalo still exist, Native American sculptor Bob Haozous constructed 100 steel buffalo, then videotaped art-gallery patrons fighting to buy the pieces before they were sold out. Korean-American Nam June Paik, whose influential multimedia artworks incorporate TVs and computers, says he was talking about the information superhighway in his own work long before it became a catchword. And architect Maya Ying Lin, the daughter of Chinese immigrants, designed the black wall of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial...
...into the street, past German cars, to my office. Around me are English-language students from Korea, Switzerland and Argentina -- all on this Spanish-named road in this Mediterranean-style town. On TV, I find, the news is in Mandarin; today's baseball game is being broadcast in Korean. For lunch I can walk to a sushi bar, a tandoori palace, a Thai cafe or the newest burrito joint (run by an old Japanese lady). Who am I, I sometimes wonder, the son of Indian parents and a British citizen who spends much of his time in Japan...
...deeper than mere goods, it is souls that are mingling. In Brussels, a center of the new "unified Europe," 1 new baby in every 4 is Arab. Whole parts of the Paraguayan capital of Asuncion are largely Korean. And when the prostitutes of Melbourne distributed some pro-condom pamphlets, one of the languages they used was Macedonian. Even Japan, which prides itself on its centuries-old socially engineered uniculture, swarms with Iranian illegals, Western executives, Pakistani laborers and Filipina hostesses...
...certain image of exoticness lingers. Douglas Kwon, 28, a recent law- school graduate in Atlanta, has views on politics and marriage that differ markedly from those of his Korean parents. But he has also grown cynical about the prospects of truly fitting in. From the taunts he drew as a schoolboy to the persistent query he gets as an adult ("Where are you from -- no, really?"), he concludes, "The bottom line is everyone is racist; everyone carries certain stereotypes around with them, and nothing is ever going to change that." Peter Son, 25, also a member of Atlanta's fast...