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Assimilation Displaces, and the Church is Complicit

Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders (AANHPI) have consistently been assimilated and displaced throughout American history, particularly immigrant families.


You can tell a lot about a local culture by the initial questions locals ask you.  In South Korea, people ask, “What’s your family name?” and “What university did you graduate from?” These questions were contrasted by questions locals asked us when my family and I immigrated from Seoul to Philadelphia in the third immigration wave of the post Korean War era, when the United States’ 1965 Immigration and Naturalization Act’s quota system was revoked in order to increase experts and professionals from East Asia.1 In the Northeast, locals often ask, “What’s your name?” and “What do you do?”
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