In a near future, the multiculturalism is about to be one of the most importantcompetitive edges not only for the countries, but also for the individuals.
In that sense, I’ve been interested in the characteristics of various cultures,ways of thinking, distnctive psychological features of people depending on the regions.
I have a personal background to have interet in the multiculturalism. I was born in Korea whose culture is based in Buddhism and Confucianism and was raised in a Christian family.
I was born in Seoul, Korea, but I spent my childhood in New York City, U.S.A, because my father worked there as a correspondent for a newspaper in Korea.
Even though I was a young boy, I could experience firsthand the merits of the freedom, the pragmatism, thedemocracy and so on.
After returning back to Korea and spending a few years in a Korean elementary school in Seoul. I went to Malaysia to study at an international school for about three years.
As you know well, Malaysia is one ofCommon Wealth member countries and is one of the most representative Islam nation in SoutheastAsia.
There I learnt about the rationalism and the egalitarianism of Englishness, problems of the Third World, religious impacts on society, etc. And I also started learningChinese.
Three years later, I came back to Korea formiddle school daysin order to widen and deepen my knowledges of Korean society, culture and history.
An when I had to enter ahigh school. I went abroad again, this time to study at an American high school located at Boston, U.S.A. I chose tostay ata Jewish couple’s home, who were a social worker and a secondary school personnel and had a son adopted from Korea.
For one year along, I got acquainted with many African-American students at school and alo got along well with the Jews going every week to a synagogue with my homestay family.
After having come home to Korea and having finished my second year of high school in Seoul, I went study abroad again for a pre-college course in Malaysia in order to put my right hand to the preparations for the entrance intothe University of Oxford.
The reason why I made up my mind to apply forthe Experimental Psycology course is I wanted tomajor in the scientificstudies, researches, experiments of psychology and systematic observation in terms of multiculturalism.
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