It can be difficult to get people to stop speaking English with me. Even if I have been speaking in Korean with them for 20 minutes.

“Sometimes when I am on the bus people will look at me and if they think that I am not Korean they will not sit next to me or they will move when I sit down. This kind of thing is still existent. Also, it can be difficult to get people to stop speaking English with me. Even if I have been speaking in Korean with them for 20 minutes they will still try to speak in English as if they thought I could not understand…”

—African-American Korean Yang Chan-wook (Gregory Diggs)

Kirsty Taylor, “Mixed-race Koreans urge identity rethink,” The Korea Herald, (December 7, 2011). http://www.koreaherald.com/national/Detail.jsp?newsMLId=20111207000908.

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