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Do greatly increased flows of people, goods, and money across borders undermine ethnic identities or reinforce them? Has intensified interaction between diverse peoples made them more similar or more different? International changes in the last few decades have raised these questions about the relationship between globalization and ethnicity.
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According to Do Hungryol’s research on Korean Chinese in 1992, 58.4 percent of them said that they regarded South Korea as their mother country while 8.3 percent answered North Korea. Approximately 21.1 percent of them stated that the reason was the economic wealth of South Korea (1992, 182–183). According to another source, Korean Chinese even said that between the two Koreas, the “wealthy one” is their motherland (Kwon Tai-Hwan and Han Sang-Bok 1993, 100).
Melissa Brown emphasizes that intermarriage is a primary means for cultural change. She writes, “Intermarriage between Chinese and non-Chinese is an important means both for introducing cultural change toward (and of) Chinese models and for claiming Chinese identity” (1996, 68). She continues, “I consider the process of ‘becoming Chinese’ at the level of individuals, where interaction with ‘society’ occurs. … At this level, cultural change is a process; boundaries for identification are neither clear nor always important and are frequently opportunistically employed; here ‘becoming Chinese’ is best seen in retrospect” (43).
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Kim, H. (2010). Introduction. In: International Ethnic Networks and Intra-Ethnic Conflict. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230107724_1
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