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I get a lot of people that say that and they try to impose their own classification of my identity and I embrace both sides.

“A lot of people when they look at me and when I reveal to them that I’m half Korean, they say that they don’t see it at all and think that I’m black. I get a lot of people that say that and they try to impose their own classification of my identity and I embrace both sides.” —Moogega (무지개) Cooper

David Lee Sanders, “Interview with Moogega Cooper,” HalfKorean.com: An online community for mixed-race Koreans, April 10, 2013. http://www.halfkorean.com/?page_id=8947.

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