Jin Park
May 10, 2024

You might grasp the concepts, but no, you will absolutely not have absorbed it.

True natives to "insert culture" / "insert ethnicity" will have intrinsic cultural differences that are not to be learned merely by "researching" - Research will in 99% derive from second/third parties, whereas growing up in x or y culture as x or y ethnicity will be absorbed automatically from their first steps.

I am ethnically 100% pure blooded Korean, born in Seoul, raised in Scandinavia, I will never become Korean nor will I ever how hard I would try ever become fully Korean on a cultural level, and as such should I never portray myself nor try to characterise what it means to be "Korean."

It would be the equivalent of me, as a biological male, writing on what women can expect during pregnancy in the third trimester. Wouldn't make much sense would it?

Jin Park
Jin Park

Written by Jin Park

Top Writer at Hacker Noon | Entrepreneur & Mental Health Advocate | Founder of Seoul:Forge

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