Self-study
P1
In April 1990 representatives of the Pico Korea Union of electronics workers in Buchon City, South Korea, traveled to the United States in order to demand just settlement of their claims from the parent company of their employer, who upon the formation of the union had shut down operations without paying the workers. ████ ███ ██████████ ███ █████ █████ ███ ██████████ ██ ██ █████████████ █████████ ██ ██████ ████████ ██████ ███ ██████ ████████ ███ ██████ ████████ █████████ ██ ███████ ███████
Intro topic ·
Pico Korea Union demands
Union workers from Korea demanded settlement from parent of their employer in the US. The union cause affected the Korean-American community.
P2
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Impact 1 ·
Rallied Korean-Am community otherwise divided by generation, class, politics
Brought political consciousness to younger, second-generation Koreans, who were generally richer than older generations.
Impact 2 ·
Sparked interest in Korean cultural identity
Impact 3 ·
Suggested new roles for recent immigrants
Immigrants knowledge of working conditions in other countries can help give perspective and create international ties.
Impact 4 ·
Alliances between Korean-Am community and labor and social justice groups
P3
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How impacts were produced ·
Pico union issues implicated larger concerns about social justice and workers' rights
Korean workers, Korean-Am workers, and working class in general had common interests in more compensation and respect.
P4
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Author's lesson ·
Connections to struggles of people in origin-countries may empower immigrant communities
Passage Style
Single position
Spotlight
7.
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the contribution of ███ ██████ ████████ █████████ ██ █████████ ███ ███████ ██████████ ██ ███████ ████████ ██ ██████ ██████ █████████
The main topic isn’t about how Korean Americans affected Koreans. It’s about how the Pico Korea Union affected Korean Americans.
b
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The main topic isn’t about the effects of Korean American contacts with Koreans visiting the U.S. It’s more specific – the effects the Pico Korea Union struggle had on Korean Americans.
c
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The main topic is the effects of the Pico Korea Union struggle on Korean Americans. The main topic isn’t about the effects of recent immigrants from Korea. The workers who traveled to the U.S. were not necessarily immigrants from Korea.
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This captures the main topic – the effects of the Pico Korea Union struggle on Korean Americans.
e
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This is too narrow; the increasing political consciousness of the second-generation Korean Americans is simply one effect of the Pico Korea Union struggle.