Canada took me and my husband – newlyweds from Korea – and treated us well, providing us with education, stable jobs and a great deal of optimism
“Where are you from?” the cashier behind the counter asked me innocently. I was ordering a piece of raspberry white chocolate cake in the old quarter of Quebec City. I found myself dumb-struck by the simple question asked by the young French Canadian with large green eyes.
But I was born under the star of wanderlust, at least that was my mother’s diagnosis for my tendency not to stay in one place long. I travelled extensively in my 20s and chose a job that required 100 per cent travel. Finding a place to belong could have been my chief motivation at the time. It is still a mystery to me why I felt like a stranger in Seoul, the city in which I was born and raised.
Naturally, I was not happy with my position in the social hierarchy of modern South Korea. I had a job that would lead nowhere, a humble place to live and a set of good middle-class friends. After my best attempt at social climbing failed, I started to look abroad. Canada took me and my husband – newlyweds from Korea – and treated us well. It provided us with education, stable jobs and a great deal of optimism. We learned a new language, North American pragmatism and how to get along with multitudes of immigrants from all different cultures and backgrounds.
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