mr. park

1b. Chicago

Yung Park didn’t have a big extended family, but the family they had in Chicago, was a tight-knit one unlike how families are today. This book is about an immigrant family, maybe the last distinctly immigrant family in Chicago.

Chicago, itself, was built by immigrants. It was the Italians, the Jews and the Irish a century back. But nowadays, there are Hispanics and Koreans. America was started by immigrants. Specifically, English immigrants and European settlers who were unafraid to settle the West.

What has emerged was an European culture, that also brought in African slaves. But when people say, “We are a country of immigrants, are they not forgetting Native Americans.”