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Young Kyu Park — Mon, 10 May 2010 19:08:57 +0000

Integration of the people in the United States.

Young Kyu Park — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 22:31:18 +0000

I once read an article about a CIA report on nytimes.com about how increasing number of immigrants, growing ethnic diversity, and whites no longer being a majority in the United States in the near future might possibly endanger the national security of the States.

Ave H

Young Kyu Park — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 22:46:47 +0000

Before we got off at the Avenue H train station, we expected a lot of commercial stores and busy people in the street. It was totally the opposite of what we thought it would be like. There was barely anyone walking in the street, but few people hanging around the stores. However, walking few blocks away from the station was Brooklyn College, probably the only thing there was to look at. In addition, it seemed that the majority of people in the neighborhood were black and Hispanic.

Newkirk Ave

Young Kyu Park — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 22:22:05 +0000

Walking around the neighborhood, observing the stores, what was sold, what kind of people walked around, we noticed that it was a very culturally diverse stop. There was a Caribbean restaurant, Chinese restaurant, Bangladesh snack shop, Indian Restaurant, and many others. It’s really interesting because in that Bangladesh shop, you would assume that the owner would sell goods from his native country, but after asking him, we learned the imports were from Turkey!

Discrimination will never go away.

Young Kyu Park — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 19:36:08 +0000

A desire for social equality? or an act of self-interest?

Young Kyu Park — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 05:21:13 +0000

The English philosopher Thomas Hobbes believed that people act in their own self-interests. This belief that we all act in our own self-interests is well supported by the two readings, “Harlem: Dark Weather-Vane,” and “The Politics of Disorder: Re-examining Harlem's Riots of 1935 and 1943.” Both readings discuss the unequal treatment that Black Americans received during and before the Great Depression and how they reacted to it.

The New York Intellectuals and Their World

Young Kyu Park — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 03:51:11 +0000