Jo Mina
Mr. Johnson
10a5
May 17, 2011
<Topic: How to Treat with the Increasing of Multicultural Families.>
1. Introduction
According to the National statistical office's survey about the movements of population of multicultural families, the number of multicultural families are increasing(Ban Taehoon) By the way, what is multicultural family? it means a family made of different people. The difference can be nationality, race, culture.
Then, what is the reason for increasing of multicultural families? It's because of an increasing of international marriage and there are many reasons why international marriages are increasing(Lee Jaebun 3). First of all, the main reason is that the men in the country or sea side cannot find their Korean partner to marry, so they got help from the international marriage company and they find out their partner from other country especially in the poor country since it's cheaper.
Second, more and more foreign workers came to Korea to have a job. Usually, they are from the poor country and they do the difficult physical labor that Korean doesn't want to do. And then they marry with the Korean women.
Third, because of the globalism caused by a development of techniques, such as a traffic, transportation, information communication, the earth became a huge village and people who wants to marry with foreigners are increasing, So they came to Korea and they marry with Korean women.
Fourth, there are several other reasons such as a religion.
The point is that, the number of multicultural family is steadily increasing, and we need to look it very carefully.
Table 1.
The number of multicultural family is steadily increasing-from the National statistical office.
(unit:matters, %)
|
year
|
sum
|
international marriage
|
foreigner wife
|
foreigner husband
|
marriages
|
rate
|
marriages
|
rate
|
marriage
|
rate
|
2002
|
306,573
|
15,913
|
5.2
|
11,017
|
3.6
|
4,896
|
1.6
|
2003
|
304,932
|
25,658
|
8.4
|
19,214
|
6.3
|
6,444
|
2.1
|
2004
|
310,944
|
35,447
|
11.4
|
25,594
|
8.2
|
9,853
|
3.2
|
2005
|
316,375
|
43,121
|
13.6
|
31,180
|
9.9
|
11,941
|
3.8
|
2006
|
332,752
|
39,690
|
11.9
|
30,208
|
9.1
|
9,482
|
2.8
|
2007
|
345,592
|
38,491
|
11.1
|
29,140
|
8.4
|
9,351
|
2,7
|
document: National Statistical Office, moving population(marriage) 2007
|
2. Body
From now on, I will talk about how we can deal with the increasing of multicultural families. First of all, I will tell you some positive affectations of increasing of multicultural families.
First of all, It solves our several society problems, such as a single men's marriage problem. For example, nowadays, there are a lot of men in the country, sea side who cannot find their Korean woman partner individually until they are very old. However, they could marry with foreigner women nowadays, so the rate of marriage of the men in country, sea side increased.
Second, multicultural family brought out vitality in the country side. In fact, a number of children are decreasing in the country side. However, since there are more and more multicultural family kids, the country side doesn't needed to close the school, and village became more vigorous.
Third, it helps Korea to cooperate with the tendency of globalization so that we can experience variety cultures.
On the other hand, there are still some bad affectations caused by multicultural family.
First of all, the most biggest problem that Korea will have is losing our specialty as a single-race nation, since the number of immigrants is increasing.
Second, the children from multicultural family are having a social problem and it has possibilities to become our social problem. Also, the number of multicultural family children being an outcast is increasing, and it became more and more serious problem. It's very dangerous for both them and us.(Lee Jaebun 4)
Table 2.
The reason why multicultural family kids are becoming an outcast.
Reasons
|
rate(%)
|
since mother is fordigner
|
34.1
|
cannot communicate well
|
20.7
|
no special reasons
|
15.9
|
differences in behavior
|
13.4
|
differences in appearence
|
4.9
|
ect;
|
22.0
|
Jo Youngdal, Seoul university, 2006, survey of multicultural family kids learning.
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Also, most of the multicultural families in country side are having an economical disability and it affects badly on their children's emotions.
Most of the multicultural families in Korea are low-income bracket so that they have low quality of education and social treatment. Here is the specific evidence. To standardize the rate of minimum cost of living, in 2005, 52.9% of immigrants women who had international marriage were having a below average of the standard point of minimum cost of living. 44% was having a 50% below average than the minimum cost of living even.(Seol Donghun, 2005;162)
Then, how can we solve this problems? The most important and easy way to solve it is to change our bad conventional thoughts about multicultural families.
So first of all, we should make a custom of understanding and respecting other cultures or languages. Actually, in the past, Korea tends to just inject our Korean tradition or culture to the foreigners. But what we need is harmony instead of injection since our society become more and more globalized. So we need the change our mind.
Secondly, the government should make an aggressive education for Korean to understand well about multicultural families. We tended to have an aptitude of thinking that only foreigners should adapt and understand our culture, in the past, but it is our public problem. So we need to solve it together.
Thirdly, I recommend having a bilingual language education inside the house to prevent multicultural kids, not to have a speech disorder. In the past, in the multicultural family house, we have a kind of conventional thought to let immigrants not to speak in their language at all. But the worse problem is that, since he or she cannot speak Korean well, their kids tended to have a speech disorder. From now on, we should change this bad custom. Korean family member should speak Korean well in front of the kids so that kids can learn Korean well, and immigrants should speak their language well so that kids can learn that language also. Then the kids can have a double language.
Fourth, the government should give low-income multicultural families an economical support. There are many multicultural families who cannot live in the high quality environment and this point can be a reason of multicultural kids becoming a rebel on our society.One way to support them economically is to give a various occupations to the multicultural family. Then they can earn their own money and they will also make their own lives.
Lastly, the government should give multicultural kids a supplementary lessons. Actually, many multicultural family kids are having a learning disorder caused by speech disorder.(Lee Jaebun, 4) So the government should care more about their education problem.
3. Conclusion
In brief, the best way to deal with the increasing of multicultural family is to have a new mental attitude about this problem. Also we should always be afraid of the possibilities of happening more serious problems in our society when we didn't control the multicultural families well.
Now, we know that multicultural family kid's future is nearly related to our Korean society, so we should take care of multicultural kids well to develop our economy. They are our future.
So, the government should give them a high quality educations and economical support.
But, I see the brightness in our Korea as this kind of systems were settled already and many parts of Korea are trying very hard to be familiar with multicultural families and they are having a nice education for them. And this is the example that shows how the government made a special program for them. In Go-yang, one broadcasting service center made a program about learning recipe of cooking for multicultural families.(Immigrants TV)
Works Cited
Ban Taehoon(반태훈).(2007).Moving population(marriage).Busanilbo(부산일 보).from:http://www.busanilbo.com/news2000/html/2008/1021/0K0020081 021.1027090259.html>
Lee Jaebun(이재분).(2008).The research about multicultural family kid's learning (다문화가정 자녀 교육실태 연구 -국제결혼가정을 중심으로-).Korean education development institute(한국 교육 개발원).
Jo Youndal(조영달).(2006).survey of multicultural family kid's learning.Busanilbo.fromhttp://www.busanilbo.com/news2000/html/2008/1 021/0K0020081021.1027090259.html>
Seol Donghun(설동훈).(2005).Searching for ways to develop multicultural family kid's learning ability.(다문화가족 역량계발을 위한 통합적 교육지원방안 모색) Korean educational development institute.(한국 교육 개발원).
Migrantworkerstv.(2010,December 5). The Multicultural Family Support Center in Koyang opens a Korean cooking class.Youtube.from:http://www.youtu be.com/watch?v=gDqLr3qOxw
There are lots of themes in this story but I think the most emphasized one is a lesson about a good friends. so I would like to talk about my friend now as a reading journal of this book. I also had the time as a twelve years old girl and also I had friends like Gordie. What is different with Gordie was that I had different sex friends, "boy" friends. Since I had lived in the small town, there were only few friends in my school. So I couldn't have any chances to choose frinds to play with. Therefore, I had more boy friends than girl friends and therefore, I was naughty enough. when I was elementary school I used to play with slingshot instead of dolls, I could run faster than any other boys in our town. But Of course, they didn't have any interest in studying so that they made me hard to study. 
