{"id":24663,"date":"2019-10-30T12:29:45","date_gmt":"2019-10-30T19:29:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dminlgp\/?p=24663"},"modified":"2019-10-30T12:29:45","modified_gmt":"2019-10-30T19:29:45","slug":"pyeonghwa-%ed%8f%89%ed%99%94-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/pyeonghwa-%ed%8f%89%ed%99%94-peace\/","title":{"rendered":"Pyeonghwa (\ud3c9\ud654) = peace"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I would like to tell you that I was raised by feminist parents, but you decide. My father was raised by brilliantly strong women who took a stand in the Suffrage Movement. My mother, raised in a patriarchal society, succumbed to an order of survival. Daughters were meant to be married and bear sons. As a woman who lived a majority of her first 20 years running from evil and terror, she leaned quite nicely into survival mode.<\/p>\n

If I look at my mother, however, she might be viewed as a feminist, but she could also be viewed as a strong woman who survived the atrocities of war and having to make decisions based on survival only. Does that make her a feminist or a survivor?<\/p>\n

\u201cOne of her key concepts is intertextuality, which can simply mean that narratives are woven of echoes and traces of other texts, a web or \u201cmosaic of quotations\u201d\u201d (Location 647).[1]<\/a> Just as intertextuality is about two texts that echo one another, can\u2019t people\u2019s lives do the same?<\/p>\n

When our family finally came to the US, I was 14 and just entering high school. It was not an easy time for any of us, but one thing was certain–my parents wanted the best for their children. Both of my parents were raised and surrounded by very strong women so they modeled the same for me. \u201cBecoming a woman means being indoctrinated into a certain code of behaviour that can be resisted\u201d (Location 1327).[2]<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cThe persistent comparison of women to Eve or to Mary \u2013 and women\u2019s position between the two examples \u2013 is now commonly recognized in feminist thinking (Williams and Echols, 1994). Although Eve\u2019s sin was appetite and Mary\u2019s virtue was (sexual) abstinence, most considerations of women and their bodies relate in some way to the sexual: early feminists argue for female capability to do much more than produce children \u2026, and second and third wave feminists argue for separate study of women\u2019s bodies and experiences\u201d (106).[3]<\/a><\/p>\n

I can safely say that my father was a feminist. He wanted me to know that though I had two strikes against me, I was more than capable of showing up and being present at the table.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, society had some very different ideas about my presence and although day by day, I might return home in tears or with bruises (depending on whether I wanted to take a swing or not), my father picked me back up, put me back together, always preparing me for the next day.<\/p>\n

This is a portion of my story from Mixed Korean: Our Stories<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\u201cBarely graduating high school, I desperately hoped for a year off, but my parents insisted that I go to college immediately. Anxiety, depression, and loneliness now ushered me into another four-year period of more academic and social paddling. And then it came \u2014 the letter telling me that I was not invited to return to university. My 1.9 GPA was too low for their standards. In an effort to appeal, I scheduled an appointment with the Dean\u2019s Office and my father offered to go with me.<\/p>\n

I ended up meeting with the Associate Dean \u2014 a man I had never met before but from that day forward referred to as the ogre. Eager to prove myself, I proposed a plan and asked for a second chance to which the ogre replied, “No. Not only will you not be able to return to this university, you will never be able to attend another accredited university ever again.” <\/em>The words were so final as they crushed my spirit.<\/p>\n

The walk across the quad began silently. Somewhere in the middle, my father whispered, “Maybe you weren’t meant to be in school.”<\/em> I could feel his disappointment wash over my body.\u201d[4]<\/a><\/p>\n

Obviously, since I am in this doctorate program, you know that my academic history did not end there. One person who didn\u2019t know me spoke some damning words over me. If I had allowed that to be my story\u2019s narrative I would have given up on being the best version of myself.<\/p>\n

There is a liturgical prayer (\u201cRicing Community\u201d: Liturgy of Gathering) that was spoken at the Pacific, Asian, and North American Asian Women in Theology and Ministry (PANAAWTM) 30th<\/sup> anniversary gathering, which sums up how I sense God has called me into this world. This is only a portion of the complete making of rice cakes, familiar to many in Asia.<\/p>\n

\u201cLitany of Coming Together<\/p>\n

Liturgist B: We thank you, God, for sugar (sprinkle sugar on the bowl): that small amount of crystals that enables sweet flavor of rice to rise, that creates tenderness in coarse rice flour and water mixture, that enables rice cake soft and moist, that reminds us of the fact that even small works we have done can enable our shalom, h\u00e9p\u00edng, pyeonghwa, heiwa, kapayapaan, shanti, perdamaian, khw\u0101m s\u0304ngb s\u0304uk\u0304h, h\u00f2a b\u00ecnh for all people to be the sweetener for the troubled world . . . we thank you, God, for sugar. (Location 2586-2593)\u201d[5]<\/a><\/p>\n

[1]<\/a> Sim, Professor Stuart. Introducing Critical Theory: A Graphic Guide (Introducing…) . Icon Books Ltd. Kindle Edition.<\/p>\n

[2]<\/a> Ibid.<\/p>\n

[3]<\/a> Falke, Cassandra. Intersections in Christianity and Critical Theory. Palgrave Macmillan UK. Kindle Edition.<\/p>\n

[4]<\/a> Blackman, Nancy. \u201cThe Embracing and Fumbling of Two Cultures.\u201d Mixed Korean: Our Stories<\/em>, eds. Cerrissa Kim, Katherine Kim, Sora Kim-Russell and Mary-Kim Arnold, Location 3122-3238. Bloomfield: Truepeny Publishing Co., 2018.<\/p>\n

[5]<\/a> Pak, Su Yon. Leading Wisdom: Asian and Asian North American Women Leaders . Presbyterian Publishing. Kindle Edition.<\/p>\n

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