So I will be off to Da Big Apple this Sunday..... Yeah it's another business trip. I will be at the on Demand show at the Javitz Center.... New York City. Hmm so it seems I've been busy travellin'. Gotta give it up to New York. As much as I love LA, and I tend to diss other cities, I can't knock NY. The place is just energetic and alive. Wouldn't want to live there, but it sure is fun.
I am going to a dealer in southern New Jersey but will be staying in Philli. Gonna hang with Jongmin. I love this kid. Jongmin and I are both 1.5 generation Korean Americans. I have such connections with other 1.5's. Yes all you other Koreans just don't know. can't wait to have philli cheesestake. Due to my diet, I will only have one.
Generation 1.5 Korean Americans!
We are the chameleon group of rare Koreans that speak both Korean and English as a native speaker. I say Chameleon cause we can blend into all three Cultures. Korean Culture, American Culture, and the Korean American culture. All very distinct in it's own flavor. Our intersts are wide and we have a unbeliveable capability to fit in to different crowds. Don't get me wrong, I am not saying we are all great. We all might have our preference of which culture that we fit into better. But the capabilities are there. Fact of the matter is that we were blessed to come to US either in Pre-Teens or Early teen to under stand enough about the Korean Culture and still have the learning capabilities learn this culture. Yeah Jongmin and I are part of that unique group that represent a smaller piece of the pie which consists huge pieces of either 2nd generation or 1st generation Koreans. I think it is cool cause not only do we have the benefit of both cultures but we can also sympathize with the pains of both. We 1.5's were fobs at one point so we can understand and sympathise with other fobs... We can also understand 2nd generation kid who try to disassociate themselves with fobs cause, lets just face it Fobs can be just straight up embarrasing. But since we can sympathise with both we have the abiblity to take the best from Both cultures. So if you are a 1.5, smile and be proud that you are part of a unique group of Korean Americans!