Life In 19x19

Hello folks,

Janice Kim is my favorite female go player, because she is always well dressed and
she wrote the great books '' Learn to play go ''

So my question is, is she really a pure american, or she also has an Asian origin, because my father is convinced she has Asian origin because of her surname - Kim.

Thank you
Best Regards
Stefany

She is Korean-American, I believe.

Her father is Korean.

Stefany93 wrote:Janice Kim is my favorite female go player, because she is always well dressed and
she wrote the great books '' Learn to play go ''

So my question is, is she really a pure american, or she also has an Asian origin, because my father is convinced she has Asian origin because of her surname - Kim.

There are very few pure Americans. Janice is American. Her father is from Korea, her mother from the U. S.

One might say she's the purest type of American, since she has racial origins which infrequently arise outside of the US.

Presumably pure means Native American though, or something indigenous?

In Korea, there is a greater sense of (or at least focus on) "purity" than there is in the US. Hence, it is not uncommon to here people referred to as "Korean", even though they live outside of Korea.

Of course, this is a generalization, and different individuals may have different preferences.

What is a "pure American"?

dfan wrote:What is a "pure American"?

An X is a pure American of course, for values of X equal to your favorite political party.

topazg wrote:Presumably pure means Native American though, or something indigenous?

Note that my criterion easily handles Native Americans

On this basis, I'm totally putting my race as American on the 2020 census.

Bill Spight wrote:

Stefany93 wrote:Janice Kim is my favorite female go player, because she is always well dressed and
she wrote the great books '' Learn to play go ''

So my question is, is she really a pure american, or she also has an Asian origin, because my father is convinced she has Asian origin because of her surname - Kim.

There are very few pure Americans. Janice is American. Her father is from Korea, her mother from the U. S.

She was featured in a Sports Illustrated story back in 1988, when she was around 19 years old. It mentions that her father is Korean:

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/ ... /index.htm

(Which proves, btw, that go is a sport. In case there was any doubt.)

tundra wrote:She was featured in a Sports Illustrated story back in 1988, when she was around 19 years old. It mentions that her father is Korean:

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/ ... /index.htm

(Which proves, btw, that go is a sport. In case there was any doubt.)

I beg to differ. You are assuming that all output of the media is true.

DrStraw wrote:You are assuming that all output of the media is true.

They wouldn't print it if it wasn't true, right?

imabuddha wrote:

DrStraw wrote:You are assuming that all output of the media is true.

They wouldn't print it if it wasn't true, right?

If the media printed only the truth then the government would have collapsed long ago.

DrStraw, you placed your reply within the quote which makes it appear as if those were my words. :/

I'm not sure if political discussion is allowed here, but FWIW I doubt the veracity of your assertion. There's not much evidence that the US electorate cares about facts.