PrepTest 101 - Section 1 - Passage 2 - Question 12

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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.

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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.

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Impact 2 · Sparked interest in Korean cultural identity

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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

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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.

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Author's lesson · Connections to struggles of people in origin-countries may empower immigrant communities

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Purpose of passage

The primary purpose of a Spotlight style of passage is typically to educate the reader about the important/interesting thing the passage focuses on. Here, the author draws lessons at the end of the passage, so the purpose is related to the lesson we can learn from the Pico Korea Union struggle.

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The focus of the passage isn’t on the way Korean Americans have affected others. Although the author believes we can learn things from what happened to Korean Americans, the author doesn’t describe any actual effects that have resulted in other ethnic communities.

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This best captures the overall purpose, which is to present the lesson described in the last paragraph.

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The purpose isn’t related to the “need” for empowerment in other ethnic communities. The purpose relates how empowerment can be achieved in other ethnic communities. Whether they “need” empowerment is a separate issue from what are effective ways to produce that empowerment.

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The author does not argue against economic and social injustice in other countries. He merely references those injustices as a way to potentially empower communities in the U.S.

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This is too broad. The author doesn’t evaluate the impact of “the unionization movement.” The passage is focused on the effects of a particular union, not on unionization generally.

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