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<b>Feeling guilty for sharing the Virginia Tech gunman's ethnicity will do more harm than good</b>
By Lina Chung
Friday, April 20, 2007
After Monday's Virginia Tech tragedy, shock reverberated among the Korean American community - the shooter, 23-year-old student Cho Seung-Hui, was a man of South Korean nationality.
But, in an attempt to avert racial backlash, members of the community have only victimized themselves by allowing Cho's nationality to spark a collective sense of guilt and responsibility.
"All Koreans in South Korea - as well as here - must bow their heads and apologize to the people of America," said the Rev. Dong Sun Lim, founder of the Oriental Mission Church in Koreatown, according to the Los Angeles Times.
As a Korean American student, I sensed my parents' fear of racial backlash when they called me Tuesday night. Worried about the media frenzy surrounding Monday's tragedy, they suggested I come home for the week until the situation calmed down.
I was initially baffled at my parents' concerns. But the following day, The New York Times and Los Angeles Times published articles reflecting this fear among South Korean parents across the U.S.
And racial epithets against South Koreans were also flooding the Internet. Blog posts on sites such as Facebook and Sepia Mutiny (a blog site created by South Asians) attacked and pigeonholed South Koreans as violent, destructive people.
"Koreans are the most hotheaded and macho of East Asians," said a Sepia Mutiny commentator.
"Take that shit back to your own nation," said a Facebook user, according to an MSNBC article.
Other Korean American UCLA students also observed a rise in concern among their parents.
First-year business economics student Janice No, whose parents live in Virginia, expressed how her parents felt a heightened sense of uneasiness regarding Monday's massacre.
"My family was concerned for my safety as a general university student," she said. "But the fact the shooter was Korean only increased their worrying."
Even the South Korean foreign ministry issued a statement earlier this week that it hoped the tragedy and Cho's South Korean nationality wouldn't incite "racial prejudice or confrontation."
Although events in the past few years - such as the 1992 L.A. riots, in which Korean-owned businesses were targeted and looted - have burned a harsh memory within the Korean American community in Los Angeles, we must acknowledge that Cho's actions were in no way a reflection on South Koreans as a whole.
"Korean American students have assimilated more to American culture and don't feel threatened by the situation. We understand the gunman had personal problems that caused his attack and that it could've been someone from any race," said second-year aerospace engineering student and L.A. resident Anthony Suh, who says his parents' concerns stemmed from their experience with the L.A. riots.
In regards to UCLA, some students feel secure that no danger or harm will arise due to their racial identities as Korean Americans.
"There's such a big Korean community at UCLA, so I don't feel threatened," third-year molecular, cell and developmental biology student Yoonah Lee said. "But the fact (the gunman) was Korean just makes me more aware of the situation."
Awareness may be justified, but openly acknowledging a sense of responsibility for having a shared ethnicity with Cho is not the right approach; it will only allow for stereotypes and more negativity to ensue.
By choosing to walk in shame, we allow ourselves to be targeted. By choosing to hide, we allow ourselves to be hunted.
Now is not the time for pointing fingers or living in fear. In the wake of such a horrible tragedy, our only collective responsibility - no matter what our ethnicity may be - is to offer support and sympathy to the Virginia Tech victims and their families in this time of need.
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Original Source: <a href=http://www.dailybruin.ucla.edu/news/2007/apr/20/ikorean_sense_shame_unjustifiedi/>The Daily Bruin - April 20, 2007</a>
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<b>Media's responses to Virginia Tech shootings spur discussion about ethnicity, mental health, violence</b>
By Eli Rosenberg
Tuesday, May 1, 2007
The issues of ethnicity, mental health, and violence in American society were some of the key topics addressed yesterday at a forum organized in response to the shootings at Virginia Tech.
The talk, titled "Media, Ethnicity and Public Response," was sponsored by both Student Psychological Services and the Dashew International Center, and was moderated by Elizabeth Gong-Guy and Bob Erickson, the directors of each organization, respectively.
"International students and scholars have great concern about issues of violence in American society, and this event gives them opportunity to participate in the discussion of this issue at UCLA," Erickson said.
He said Seung-Hui Cho, who killed 32 people on the Virginia Tech campus on April 16 before taking his own life, was originally reported erroneously to be an international student.
A few people expressed surprise that the issue of Cho's Korean ethnicity was such a focal point of debates that took place after the issue.
Gong-Guy described how she was brought to tears after listening to the apology of Cho's sister on the radio.
"(It was) the idea that she was apologizing not for herself or her brother, but for all Koreans and Asians on the whole," Gong-Guy said.
The discussion, which covered questions of violence, mental health and racial relations in American culture, highlighted some of the issues brought up in the media after the shootings.
Most of the seven participants seemed critical of the media's handling of the shootings, particularly in the early stages of the crisis.
"Media seeks to take the most sensationalized portrayal of issues in this era of 24-hour news," Erickson said.
The talk also touched on the changes and debates that UCLA has experienced in the aftermath of the attack.
"One of my first reactions is that it could have happened here," Erickson said.
The issue of mental health particularly was presented as a problem that affects college campuses nationwide.
"When something of this nature happens, it creates a ripple effect across the whole nation," Gong-Guy said.
Gong-Guy also spoke about the importance of simple mental health techniques for the prevention of such events.
"A lot of our efforts are focused on prevention - training students to use stress training techniques so resilience is higher, getting people to sleep better," Gong-Guy said.
Erickson spoke about how the university has tried to come up with a mass communication system to alert students, workers and faculty in the event of such a disaster.
Erickson also said universities have a responsibility to shift focus from students' individual accomplishments to social and community involvement.
"Maybe we need to look more at community involvement (in admissions)," he said, adding that UCLA's new holistic admissions process was a step in that direction.
The talk, attended by a handful of people, lasted for about an hour. No undergraduate students were in attendance. While the numbers fell short of the organizer's expectations, a few people saw this lack of attendees as a positive sign.
"I'm really happy that there's not that many people here" because high attendance would have been a sign of grief and anxiety in the student body, said local resident Hsuan-Shiang Wu.
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Original Source: <a href=http://www.dailybruin.ucla.edu/news/2007/may/01/forum_current_issues/>The Daily Bruin - May 1, 2007</a>
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Re: "CUPD Assesses Campus Safety," News, April 18
To the Editor:
Thank you for the article "CUPD Assesses Campus Safety." In some ways, it made me feel a little bit safer knowing about the heightened security. However, it made me feel uneasy and unsafe at the same time after reading about the last shooting that occurred at Cornell. As a Korean-American, I have felt shame, sadness, pity, anger and fear about sharing the same ethnicity as the shooter at Virginia Tech. In a society where racial inequalities and stereotypes still very much exist, I feared for what this one young Korean-American student may have done for our future race relations here in the U.S. My fear was shared by many others, where Korean parents took their children home from VTech for fear of racial backlash.
Thus, I strongly believe that your reference to the last shooting at Cornell was inappropriate and uncalled for. Although you did not specifically say that Kim, the shooter at Cornell, was Korean, it can easily be implied just by his name. I believe that your mention of this one horrific incidence in which the shooter just happened to be Korean only further aggravates the very sensitive issue of race. I believe that you should have referenced the incidence at Cornell without giving names of those involved, to prevent any kind of potentially dangerous stereotypes and consequences that it may have on other Korean-Americans around campus.
Rachel Baek '07
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Original Source: <a href=http://cornellsun.com/node/23257> Cornell Daily Sun - April 30, 2007</a>
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Mention of shooter's ethnicity unnecessary
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By: Anna Lieth
Posted: 4/20/07
Days after the Virginia Tech shooter was identified as a Korean-American male by national media outlets, members of Duke's Asian Students Association gathered Thursday night to discuss the possible backlashes the Asian-American community may endure as a result of the gunman's actions.
During the discussion, which was sponsored by Counseling and Psychological Services and ASA, students addressed concerns about how aspects of Asian-American culture may intensify frustrations and pressures with which many students struggle on a daily basis.
Senior Kevin Fang, outgoing president of ASA, said the event was intended to give students on campus "an opportunity to process all that is going on."
"A lot of Korean students at Virginia Tech have gone home," he said. "Although they know that the shooting had nothing to do with race, they feel that there might be some repercussions."
The six students present also discussed the national media's coverage of the incident, questioning their decision to identify the race of Cho Seung-Hui, the shooter, and debating the relevance of this information in attempting to understand the motive for his actions.
They discussed whether or not the shooter's actions could be explained through his cultural and social identity, and talked about how situations like the one Cho faced can be prevented.
Some students shared experiences about other Asian-American students they knew who experienced pressures and feelings of cultural disconnect which led them to lives of isolation and depression.
Gary Glass, senior coordinator for outreach and developmental programming for CAPS, said his objective in helping to organize the discussion was to "provide an arena for things to get voiced that aren't often voiced-at least not in any formal capacity."
He added that he saw a variety of reactions expressed during the discussion.
"If there are voices that if they were more heard would further enrich the campus, then let's create a space where they can be heard," Glass said.
He said CAPS is devoted to supporting discourse with all different types of groups on campus, and that the Virginia Tech shooting presented a need for such discourse.
The students, however, pointed to the social stigma many students associate with counseling that may discourage students in need from seeking help.
The discussion was not limited to East-Asian students and included South-Asian students as well.
Junior Shawn Kwatra, a South-Asian student and incoming co-president of external affairs for Duke Diya, said he felt the topic of the discussion was important not only for East Asians but for all Asians and for international students in general.
Feelings of alienation are not only unique to Asian-American students alone but also affect foreign students of all backgrounds, Kwatra said.
"There is a cultural difference, and that cultural difference is something that doesn't have to be East Asian," he said.
Kwatra added that he felt the forum was a first step on the way to finding solutions that could prevent students from taking a similar path to the one Cho took.
"I think the biggest thing we need to do is raise awareness," Kwatra said. He added that it is important for peers to be able to recognize when others are suffering or isolated.
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Original Source: <a href=http://media.www.dukechronicle.com/media/storage/paper884/news/2007/04/20/News/Asians.Fear.Alienation.Scrutiny-2871400.shtml> Duke Chronicle - April 20, 2007</a>
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Asians fear alienation, scrutiny
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