my survey!

http://www.tigersurvey.com/survey.php?survey=12630

The survey is for Americans, permanent residents, and long-term residents...

if you didn't take my survey, please spend three minutes for me! :)

I am not sure if there is any Korean American in our class to take another survey, (probably no) but.. I will post the URL tomorrow.

my thesis topic: cultural assimilation

This time, for sure, I announce my thesis topic!

My thesis topic is cultural assimilation. America is the nation of immigrants and I want to know mindsets of people and their stories.

Leaving everything behind, it is important for immigrants to settle down fast. For that, feeling accepted will help them a lot. The attitudes of people in the new environments will be one of the key elements for immigrants to feel accepted. So, I want to know how much open-minded Americans are to immigrants and new comers, how they feel about immigration and people from everywhere.

And somewhat immigrants seem to get used to live in different country, but there are something that makes us feel they are not really blended into new culture; for example, some people always wear their traditional costumes, hang out with people from their country, etc.

So for immigrants, I want to know how much they keep their own cultures and accept new culture.

And their America-born children. How they feel about their parent' culture and how they deal with two cultures at home, etc.

To make this thesis personal, I choose Koreans to represent immigrants.

I make surveys for each of them: Americans, Korean immigrants, and Korean Americans.

Surveys are on process, I am getting responses one by one.

I have more ideas to extend my thesis but we will see how the surveys come out first.

and at this point, I am revising my 12-pages book, creating my own images and figuring out typefaces.

Typespecimenbook

swipe book

This is my swipe book. Images are reference for my graphic elements.

Thesis Topic refined

topic: really meaning of success

people who society demand are really successful?

people who appear to have everything often commit suicide.

what is success? who set the standard?

We tend to say success is achievement. People emphasis on becoming successful.(highly paying job, good school) When you run into someone, you ask, how is school, work, study?

we judge people from their achievement.

and when we achieve something, we pursue another goal. It is an endless marathon.

when you die, you might wonder if your life was happy.

and propose some ideas help you live your life successfully and make your life richer.

Buddha said, "Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship."

from that idea, inform like immediate healing for depression, headache, etc..

for example, how to do 5-minute meditation, self-massage, reduce your stress, etc.

purpose:

criticize material world, awaken people, and let them pursue what they really like.

live the life they want and enjoy every moment of your life,

but shouldn't take this as "stay where you are and be lazy."

Thesis statement

1. The Topic of My Thesis: The Ideal

What type of person does a society prefer?

There are figures in societies which people prefer. And the characteristics of the person are slightly different from culture to culture. Even though people don't care about how people talk about them these days, there should be still standard for good men and women. For instance, a person with positive, confident attitude would be generally preferred. Then what about, say, quiet respectful people? They might be preferred in certain culture. I want to know how the characteristics are different in each cultures.  

It will include physical and psychological attributes. 

I would go more specific like body type, face, personalities, etc. 

From this idea, I have been researching and it seems like the ideal figures become identified internationally. I would say the power of media. Therefore, I developed my ideas more from my current statement but I would see how the research comes out first. and keep refining my ideas

one of proposals for thesis is ..to focus on the beauty out of the ideal; are we all wearing corsets? pursue the image which media shows us, try to get in great shape, whiten teeth, tanning, plastic surgery, and every effort for beautification.

The history of the beauty in culture, and figure out who is creating the ideal image behind the media. 

2&3 Intention and Purpose

(As a student from non english-speaking country, I am confused...Isn't intention same thing to purpose? I will try to put my word on my best...)

to understand different perspectives of culture and learn what forms different perspectives. 

4. Proposed Process

->research journals and books on similar topics like ideal personal traits in culture, maybe.. geography of personality traits as well. 

->also look through internet. 

->possibly do a couple of surveys, or interviews since we live in NY I can meet people from everywhere. 

->analyze information

->create infography

apology

I do full time intern and take three classes. one of the classes finished this Tuesday. They will be done one by one.. but I had so much to do and unable to spend much time on portfolio class. I apologize for that and will post frequently from now on.