Today I want to talk about Reusability of our experiences.
(Is it heard like I'm mimicing some stereotypical Youtubers' tone now? If it is, it worked.)
I lived in Republic of Korea for almost my entire life.
It means my native language is Korean.
We, Koreans--especially Millennials have learned English through our whole schooltime and more.
And we've been frequently asked 'Where/How do you learned English', haha.
Need a correct answer? School, with teachers, as people like you, speaking English in native level.
Anyways, we're living in a world such as English functions for lingua franca now.
From tech areas to entertainment industry, there are terms and standards written in English everywhere.
When I was a child, 20ish years ago, the circumstances were definitely different over these days.
I've moved to the UK a year ago, last autumn.
I thought, if I want to be a person, not specified as Asians, or Koreans in this world,
I need to learn and practice whole new standards, can adjust to bigger, much more general communities.
(I, of course, know that there's no general community at all.)
But when I stop by some grocery stores, there's some section named like Oriental or World Food.
And any products displayed at those sections could not be found at GENERAL sections.
If you want to buy some items like salt imported from some Asian countries,
you have to take it from special section, not shelves for just condiment.
Do you feel about the term special as SPECIAL? For me, nahhh...
I'm getting used to encounter Oriental things in the UK now.
Names don't matter, do they? (Actually they do though.)
I just want these GENERAL items could be displayed at both World Food AND condiment corners.
Do you like Kpop? Actually I don't that much. I just like Korean music in general.
Then do you know how to listen to Kpop or buy some digital sources?
The Kpop section, correct answer!
There're some SPECIAL standards distribute Pop musics and Kpop musics.
And the sections are exclusive.
I'm a Korean woman in London--yes, one of the legal aliens.
I fully recognise I came from different cultures.
I don't force people living in the UK to just embrace Korean culture with open arms.
We all are different in away (even among people from same countries or neighbours).
I just want to buy some Himalayan salt at the condiment section.
And I realised that I, also, need to rewrite or replace my experiences properly as a Korean who lived for 30 years in the peninsula located in Northeast Asia to escape the World People section.
Or it could be easier, if I move back to my country and settle there as I lived there earlier.
Because people just means Koreans plus some white dudes in Korea (Racism can spread its wings to everywhere).
Except just one thing, women have stayed for the second position for so long.
So I got two options now.
One is to be as a woman in Korea, and the other is to be as an Asian woman in the world.
Could you tell which one is much harder to me?
I, at least, know my proper answer.
That's why I moved to the UK at the first place; I'm writing this post now about the reusability.