In the allergist’s waiting room. A mother and her 20-something daughter, Asian, the mother has an accent.
Daughter, slamming her book closed: I don’t like this book at all. She assumes we are all victims. That’s just not right. We’re not ALL victims. I’M not a victim!
Mother: Are you going to finish the book?
Daughter: I think I’ll just skim it. I don’t agree with her so I don’t want to use it.
Mother: What is the subject of your paper?
Daughter (who now begins to sprinkle her speech with Korean words and phrases, so this is all I could get): It will definitely be about the Korean diaspora, but it’s too big of a subject. I have to be more focused. Somehow I didn’t know there were Koreans scattered all over the world (laughs). I thought they were just here. I think I might concentrate on the Korean communities in the U.S. and in Russia, because there is such a disparity there. We’ve been prosperous in this country, but over there the communities are poor and they’ve been persecuted.
