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All chapters in this Second Edition of Increasing Multicultural Understanding have been revised and updated, and there are two new chapters on Muslims and Jews in the United States. The author presents a model which helps counsellors understand culturally different groups and the role culture plays in shaping the way people think, feel and act, and which provides the tools necessary for fostering positive and productive relationships among culturally diverse populations.
Korean Americans
Korean Americans
Korean Americans who live in the United States are among the most recent immigrants to this country. Most of them arrived after 1970 and are middle-class owners of businesses. These people are quite different from the first Koreans who arrived in Hawaii in 1903 to work the sugar and pineapple plantations.
The number of Korean Americans is rapidly increasing. In 1970, approximately 70,000 lived in the United States. By 1990, that number had increased to 800,000, primarily as a result of revised immigration laws (U.S. Bureau of the Census, 1991). Korean Americans represent one of the largest Asian American groups in the United States (Ramsey, 1987). It is estimated that, by the year 2000, nearly 1 million Koreans will reside in the United ...
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