Milissa Yoon
Bio
I’m a Writer/Artist Storyteller and Social Anthropologist. I am Korean-American and live in Philly presently. I employ the Scientific Method most times, and am interested in our Natural Inter-Connections as humans in our Universe.
Stories (2/0)
My Hereditary Cultural Erosion Experience Part II
Meant to be a sequel to my previous media review essay on the impact 80s culture in America had on me, I thought I should follow up with my reflections on the 90s and beyond to the present day. Because of the readily available consumer filmmaking tools, filmmaking is less elitist and more widespread and we are globally more connected, so the amount of media must be prefaced with a nod to what is going on outside of Hollywood, too, as a global citizen and Korean-American...So, to start off, here is a list of my foreign influences outside of Hollywood I have had regarding Asian representation:
By Milissa Yoon6 years ago in Geeks
My Hereditary Cultural Erosion Experience
My mom was escaping a life defined by Korean society in December of 1971 when she arrived in San Francisco, CA, USA. I was born in May of 1972, an American citizen. I am 1.5 generation and I am the beginning of the process of hereditary cultural erosion for both me and my progeny. Unlike Black people who were taken in a time where there were very little public records of their hereditary culture’s history because their identities were stolen and they were conditioned through generations, I know some of my genes’ history and language, and that definitely has been at times confusing in relation to my country of origin, the US. We do share hereditary cultural erosion and all immigrants to a country of multiculturalism will be exposed to it somewhere in our ancestry even though the rate has been sped up in Blacks even with cultural appropriation. However, race and governance, like capitalism, are all man-made constructs. In the human race, we are broken up into different societies and cultures given a categorical definition by land space borders, also manmade.
By Milissa Yoon6 years ago in Geeks
