Where do Korean-Americans fit in in a Postmodern America 4

The definition of WASP has changed over time. No longer does the anagram refer to Northern European White Anglo-Saxon Protestant Elites who once were the ruling class. Now WASPS refers to any whites who are Protestant. They should really be called WP now.

East-Asian identity has also changed over time. Koreans and Japanese were once thought of as poor, pitiful Asians who desperated needed and wanted American help. When the Japanese rose and became the second largest economy in the world, Americans looked at Japanese-Americans differently. The same thing happened with the Koreans who became an economic powerhouse. Then China. East-Asians became major competitors or even a powerful group of Asian nations who could eventually overtake American power.

Korean-American culture was changed by the new status of South Korea. Americans now see Korean-Americans as a people who can take their high-paying jobs, not just laundromats, beauty supply stores, etc. In this way, Korean-Americans are the New Jews and there is a tension or even an anxiety between East-Asian Americans and Americans. But this tension is expressed as a tension between Jews and the New Jews.

Korean-Americans, as a point of fact, do get help from the government. Asians go in as a group to the state government and do get some money to help out their communities.

Americans do not subsidize the Korean military(They do subsidize the Japanese military, Okinawa). There is a spirit of independence combined with a personality that is very much like that of a hermit. This is not individuality in the Jewish sense. But Jewish individuality, at times, can be very offputting.

IS THERE A SENSE OF COMMUNITY with Korean-Americans? Koreans, in general, are not a communal people. But Christianity has created a Korean-American society which is very good for Korean-Americans.

When I say that North and South Koreans are passionate people... some people take the meaning of passion in a very sexual way. There is the passion of St. Matthew and the Passion of Christ and the Passion of St. Paul... there is a passion that takes you past all your agony and pain, all your troubles and anxieties, and all the tests of God... Koreans and even Korean-Americans have some of this.

In the military, Koreans learn how to overcome hardships.

There is also a Passion for Justice but not to the level of the Jews. The Jews were able to bring to trial some of the perpetrators of the Holocaust and get reparations from Germany. The comfort women have never really been comforted. The Japanese have given some reparations to South Korea but not much. But there is passion in South and North Korea, a passion that sublimates into espressions of ethereal actuality as in the best literature of South Korea.

But politically and culturally, East-Asian Americans, Korean-Americans are still babies. The Jews had to start out as babies too though. Not Quite. Freemasons and good Christians helped them out as the Jews worked in diverse ways to gain political power in the US. There was, of course, Hollywood and many Jews who started Hollywood were Freemasons. These Jews helped to create an Apollonian structure to the society. Nietzsche stated that the visual art of painting expressed a power structure, a hierarchy within the society. In racial terms, Hollywood expressed the hierarchy of race. Now one may say that this was racist, but one may argue as to whether it expressed the racism already inherent in society and also as to whether the society or the movies were more racist. Now some of the most famous names in Hollywood were English names, Lawrence Olivier, Vivien Leigh, etc. The Hollywood of that time helped cement the political relationship between Americans, Jews, and the English. But at some point in the early or late 1950's, Jews and other minorities began to rebel against the WASP order. Jews found the WASP dominance in Academia unbearable and stifling. I think hipsters, the prelude to the hippy, began to appear. Marlon Brando really brought some passion and art to Hollywood. It is really dangerous to explore your passions for your passions involve the thanatos as well as eros. Passions are overwhelming and the Freudian formula of sublimating the barbaric desires that are inherently in our passions is a difficult task, especially given the fact that there is really no larger community nowadays.