Status Updates From Blue Dreams: Korean America...

South Central Los Angeles to rebuild after the destruction: "They have the courage to sur-vive; this is the pattern of Korean history-Japanese rule, invasions over and over—but we always come back. A long time ago-I'm not sure if it was a poet or a politician-someone [in Korea] said that the Korean people are like weeds, that if they are stepped on, they rise right back, and that is the way it is.'

Asking, "Do you know why Koreans eat so quickly?" he explained that this Korean trait is a wartime vestige. Similarly, a Korean American owner of a dry cleaner,
"the 'highest' of businesses with very
'high' [class] people," claimed: "We are a nation that has lived through many hungry periods. So we have learned to work hard. We like doing everything quickly-quick, quick, quick-eat quickly, succeed quickly,

'Horatio Algers--whether African American, European American, or Asian American--do not return to the ghetto.'