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> A South Korean working for an American media organization

This makes sense. Being born in a place irrevocably bestows a person with a nationality that supersedes citizenship, where they were raised and educated, or where they’ve lived nearly all of their lives. In this essay I will explain the good faith purpose of bringing up someone’s birthplace in this context, and I will begin with this thought: If California is west, isn’t Korea even more west? Furthermore I