New Year's Resolution #2 한식하우스 신년계획: Offer All I Can to Whoever I Can/Decentralizing Privilege
This is more of a personal one but I wanted to explain it more here because it stems from the belief that if we all do a little bit, it becomes a lot a bit.
What I've learned in 2016 above all the concept of “privilege” and how we can all contribute a little bit of our time to those who need it (whether it be in our neighborhood or Steemit or wherever). We typically think of these gestures in regards to charities or other non-profits but there is another component to this which we can do verbally and socially.
Everything starts from social action, a concept we can encourage more in our professional and personal lives as well as right here on the platform we share to circulate experiences and articles.
2016년을 지나며 배운것 중 하나는 “privilege/특권” 을 가진 사회 그룹에게 그들과 다른 관점, 사회적 그룹을 이해시킬 수 있게 하냐... 라는 질문을 가지며 시작되었습니다. 대학교육 받은 사람으로써의 특권, 도시에 사는 특권...미국 사회에서도 한국인으로써만 받는 특권 등 이렇게 세부적인 사회 집단이 생김으로써 그들이 다른사람의 상대방의 삶의 방식을 이해하지 못하는 데에서 발생되는 사회적 괴리를 어떻게 줄일 수 있을까에 관해 말이죠. 어떻게 하면 사회적 행동 패턴을 쉬프트 하고, 지식을 써큐레이트 할 수 있는가에 관해 더 공부하고 써보고 싶습니다.
In the Pursuit of Democratic Culture and Development
Our first steps towards a cultural revolution.
From us at Hansik House, it means getting our experiences out there. Even as 28 and 29 yr-olds (Ryu just turned 29 this month!), we've gotten over an incredible amount of obstacles that could be turned into wisdom for other aspiring students and professionals. We both conquered graduate degrees and Ryu has over 10 years of experience as an international student. I personally have a perspective that is strangely not shared very much within the country – I am an ethnic Korean but not a national one. From these premises and our duo approach to the theme of culture, we started Hansik House earlier this year.
The radio show is one of many future projects we'll attempt at circulating new cultural ideas and focusing on societal concepts that are difficult to grasp without diverse discussion. No matter what you believe in or what you would like to see improved in the world, it all starts from conversation and ideation.
저는 얼마전까지 인종은 한국사람일뿐인 미국인이였습니다. 대략 10년전... 대학교 1학년때 학교에서 유학온 한국친구들을 처음 사귀면서 저의 세상이 바뀌기 시작했습니다. 현재는 한국말도 아직 많이 늘었고, 한국 문화를 많이 배우고 이해해 가고 있습니다. 제 파트너는 이곳 미국에서 유학생으로 시작해 현재 직업을 가지고 10년째 살아가고 있습니다. 저희는 한국나이로 내년이면 31살이 됩니다. 관점에 따라 어린나이일수도, 그렇지 않을 수도 있지만 이제 사회를 이끌어갈 밀레니어들과 함께 일하며 한국의 사회적 이슈를 국제적 무대에서 대화해보는 그룹을 만들어갈 의무감같은 것이 듭니다.
Join me tomorrow for the 3rd and last New Year's Resolution of 2017! If you missed the first one, you can read it here.
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응원합니다~^^
감사합니다~ 새해 복 많이받으세요!
Great!! Enjoyed your story again. Happy New Year!
Thank you! Happy New Year!
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