Globalization and Multicultural Family

 I don’t know the situation in other countries, but in Korea where I am from, there are families called ‘multicultural family’. Then what do you mean by multicultural family? A multicultural family means a family consisting of a marriage immigrant or a person with naturalization permission and a person with the nationality of the Republic of Korea (ROK). The Republic of Korea is a state with one ethnicity which is Korean. Therefore, all Koreans are lookalike to each other, has same skin color, using same languages, shares same culture and others. State with only one ethnicity is good thing since it can bring out unity and sense of kinship. However, this brought the society the idea of ‘other’.

This age is the age of globalization and not only the culture and the technologies but there are sharing of many other things. Especially in Korea, no one can imagine to marry to a foreigner. Not only cannot imagine, but if this happens then we thought them as sinful and considered them as no longer as our people and family. Though Korea has developed a lot in many ways, this kind of idea or conception is something that could not easily change. In fact, there are so many foreign people, especially women are coming into the territory of Korea to marry to Korean males and they make a family and bears children in the society of Korea. Also, there are so many foreign male who married to Korean women because they love each other (Do not misunderstand me. This does not mean that foreign female and Korean male does not love each other unlike foreign male and Korean female couples). Therefore, this negative conception towards marrying to foreigner leads to the problems.

In other view, we cannot just criticize the Korean people who used to make those multicultural families as others. It is because it is one behavior to protect our own things such as the one ethnicity of the country since the creation of the county itself. It is one way to protect our country’s own culture and identity from the outside culture and such so that ours to be not contaminated or polluted.

However, multicultural family is one thing that we cannot no longer stop to not happen anymore due to the fast changes of the world as global world. If this is true and the reality, then we should accept the fact that there are so many things and people who are not same and shares everything just like us. Though those people are having different color of skin, hair, and eyes, we should still remember that the same blood is running through their vein as usual Korean people are having under their skin.