When people leave their homeland and immigrate to another unfamiliar country, will they still remember their original identity? Kim's convenience tells a story about a Korean immigrant family and life in this convenience store is like a small society, showing the living conditions and lifestyles of people with different personalities after immigration. Immigrant families live a complex existence. Facing the collision of different cultures and living habits, they seem to exist in a transition zone between various cultural differences. Especially for the first generation of immigrants, when they immigrated, most of them had entered middle age, which means that the influence of the motherland on them is extremely large and inseparable. For them,their lives can almost be divided into two parts which contain the period before immigration and the period after immigration. When these immigrants pack their luggage and fly to the other side of the earth, the wide and large Pacific Ocean divides Asia and North America into two distant parts, which is not only a distance that takes more than ten hours to go through but turns their homeland into a melancholy that they can never cross. Appa in the story is one of those people who cannot get rid of this emotion. Appa, who is the owner of Kim's convenience and also the leader of his family. In this play, Appa is an exceedingly contradictory character. He is simple and kind, but also stingy and stubborn. At the same time, compared with the rest of the family , he has the strongest sense of identification with his own racial identity.Through the analysis of the storyline and characters, there are three main reasons Appa has a strong sense of racial identity, including the influence of the historical and cultural background of South Korea, the attempt to integrate into the local society, and his nostalgia for the homeland.
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