"Most troubling to Park Nelson are the messages that can get transmitted. "What happens in camps is really colored by all of the misunderstandings and prejudices that Americans have about Asians in general," she says. "I think that these camps have Orientalized Korean culture in a way that is palatable to white Americans but can do some damage in terms of painting Korean people and Korean culture in a very demeaning and condescending way. Korea is one of the most electronically and technologically advanced societies in the world, but camps have a tendency to focus on folk culture. And learning the fan dance doesn't exactly create cultural cache if you go to Korea.""
Read the whole article here:
http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2007/11/weekend-at-culture-camp.html
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