week5-kiberd-inventing ireland (castle)

The fight for Irish culture and identity takes place in print and in language.  For many the adoption of the English language meant the dissolve of their culture.  This is much the same in many other cultures.  In my current church the senior pastor desires for us to speak in Korean as it carries within itself a certain spiritual quality.  I do not understand this but only see it as a means to retain the Korean culture in the midst of the influx of Western culture in the church.

~ by Yoon Lee on October 29, 2007.