Being a second-generation Korean-American girl is difficult. I'm not trying to film a drama here. I'm sure not being a second-generation Korean-American girl has its difficulties too. But being a Korean in a country that has yet to understand and be fully comfortable with multi-ethnicities is pretty hard. To add to that, being all of that and a girl is a migraine and a half.
Girls like me, we're told we can achieve anything if we put our minds to it, but then no one expects anything from us. We're told to go get 'em, until we go get them, and then we're told to stop getting so many things.
"Go and be all that you can be. Be a doctor and save lives, but just don't do anything crazy like surgery, because that's too much. And who will want to marry someone that's too much? And if you don't get married, you fail at life."
Basically, what I hear from everyone in the Korean-American community is to be marketable, and this market demands girls that are ambitious but not too ambitious, make money but not too much money, love their jobs but not love them too much, and be independent but not too independent.
Excuse my language, but really...what the hell?
Excuse my language, but really...what the hell?
