This study classified linguistic discrimination of Korean for person with multicultural background to types such as "selection of vocabulary", "composition of phrase and sentence", "discourse and context." Causes for linguistic discrimination were div...
This study classified linguistic discrimination of Korean for person with multicultural background to types such as "selection of vocabulary", "composition of phrase and sentence", "discourse and context." Causes for linguistic discrimination were divided to ‘skin color(human race), cultural exclusivity from homogenous country, economic power(capital) and nation"s status of the person with multicultural background’ to interpret data. The implications of analysis results are as follows.
First, this study pointed out that if one regards "different" of skin color as "wrong" or element of "discrimination," one can have difficulty in living the era of multiculture.
Second, some Koreans have still strong cultural exclusivity from homogenous country. They should throw away closed nationalism in the global village where various races live together, and should be accustomed to cultural relativism.
Third, fetishism was revealed in linguistic expression when some Koreans met persons with multicultural background―fetishism discriminatively evaluates and judges persons according to economic power of their country. It is necessary to overcome such wrong fetishism.
Thus, It is necessary for some Koreans to recognize difference between "different" and "wrong", to understand that variety such as human race, culture, economic power etc. coexists in Korean society. And proper "speaking and writing education" is necessary through education of national language and multiculture so that existing Korean people can communicate with person with multicultural background.