Electronic Magazine of Multicultural Education Winter 1999   http://www.eastern.edu/publications/emme   Vol. 1, No. 1 Theme: Culture, Cultural Boundaries, and Individuals

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THEMATIC ARTICLE

 

Re-examining the Rhetoric of the "Cultural Border"

by Heewon Chang

This essay examines the territory-based rhetoric of the cultural border, boundaries and borderlands. Critiquing the essentialist view that presumes fixed boundaries for a culture, the author suggests the constructivist view that assumes individuals’ power of defining and redefining their cultural identities in a multicultural society. The author illustrates different multicultural make-ups that a multiracial, an adoptee, a U.S.-born and an immigrant individual develop despite their common tie to Korea.

 

 

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