American Quote by Greta Lee

I think growing up, I didn't ever attempt to define my Koreanness. It was just this intrinsic part of me.

— Michelle Zauner

“The American public has been persistently told that the Korean people are a degenerate and contemptible nation, incapable of better things, intellectually inferior, and…

— Homer B. Hulbert

You're trying to grow up, and you don't want to be like your parents, and that gets mixed up with being Korean... They brought…

— John Cho

I'm so used to America, used to the traffic in L.A., and I don't really feel it click with the Korean culture. But obviously,…

— Chloe Kim

When I moved from Canada to Korea, I experienced a massive culture shock. I wasn't familiar with Korean culture at all and was very…

— Henry Lau

I was born and raised in the suburbs of Atlanta, which as you can imagine, was not the most diverse place to grow up…

— Eric Nam

“Korean-American: Have you ever noticed how most Asian-Americans are slightly brain-damaged from having grown up with Asian parents? It’s like being raised by monkeys—these…

— Jean Lee

Growing up where I was, there were no Asians, no minorities, and there was always something to remind me of what I'm not. And…

— Lee Isaac Chung

People think that being Korean is all one thing.

— Roy Choi

Throughout most of my life, I've tried to downplay my Chinese heritage because I wanted so much to be an American. I was the…

— Tess Gerritsen

I was criticized a lot when I was singing in Korean. The producers and people from my agency would point out my accent and…

— Eric Nam

In America, I'm a foreigner because of my Korean heritage. In Asia, because I was born in America, I'm a foreigner. I'm always a…

— Margaret Cho