Han

"Home is Where the Han Is" has a very distinct line of reasoning. Elaine Kim takes the reader through her reasoning in a very methodical fashion. She states in the beginning two paragraphs her intent, to look at the treatment of Korean-Americans, and try to decide how long it is going to take for Korean-Americans to truly be accepted in the Untied States.

She begins by discussing the conflicts that happened during the Los Angeles riots. She brings up the idea that all of the tensions are furthered by the media. She is attempting to show people the inequities; not only those that are inherint, but those that are added to.

Another important idea that Kim brings up in her piece is how Korean Americans are to become "Americanized." Kim works under the assumption that all Korean-Americans are not accepted. Unlike her, my experiences have led me to see that there are many Korean-Americans that are seen as fully included into the "American" society.

Finally, Kim writes as though she is trying to persuade people that are against Korean-American acceptance. However, many of the people that she is writing for, for example our class, are for the most part all for the incorporation of Korean culture into mainstream U. S. culture. In this way, she is not necessarily reaching the people that she could be. Her Newsweek article was the most effective for those ends. One of her key final lines of thought deals with the idea that the exclusion and discrimination that the Korean Americans encountered are part of the "acceptance" process of the United States culture.