“I think it's important to
preserve our culture,
to pass down that knowledge,
because this is our collective experience
that we can all learn from –
it's our treasure chest.
One thing I'd like to point out, though,
is that there is a difference
between passing down wisdom
versus passing down trauma.
It takes time to learn
to tell the two apart,
and what you're gonna
take away from it
is then up to you.”
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I’m writing this as the result of an interracial, intercultural marriage (my Korean mother and American father who just figured things out as they went along) and as a first-hand learner from my own relationship with a biracial African-American and Korean man.
The earlier generations of interracial Korean relationships have shown mixed results to say the least, and it’s fairly recently that we have been trying to understand the cultural, social and personal reverberations of that. It’s partly what we do here on The Halfie Project.
