Comments on: Asian Americans less spiritual and more insular

By: Fred

Fred — Sat, 29 Oct 2005 14:09:06 +0000

Supposedly, Korea has, by percentage of total population, the largest number of Christians. But I believe that this “spirituality” is a sham, due to a few things: A desire (at least by those who grew up during the war) to become Americanized, the conformist nature of the culture, and falsely believing that compliance with religious authority leads to prosperity and happiness.

And finally, in my observations, young Koreans (and many non-Koreans too) are unwilling to rock the boat by telling their parents that they don’t believe the same things as Mom and Dad. (More common methods of Asian-American rebellion include: Getting tattoos and piercings, [ooh so tough!], joining a gang, becoming a porn starlet, or dating a black person, [which could very well get a Korean kid disowned])

By: djchuang

djchuang — Thu, 27 Oct 2005 02:11:07 +0000

Here’s my hunch on what’s going on:

1. while Asian American involvement at some/many college campus ministries are growing, on the whole of Asian American demographics, the majority of Asian Americans are (still) not spiritually inclined (at this time)

2. perhaps the growing number of Asian American involvement at college campus ministries is merely perceived as “explosive”, and only in certain locations, due to the declining numbers of involvement by other racial groups

By: rudy

rudy — Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:52:21 +0000

i’m in total disconnect mode deej

because

at the same time, asian american christian groups are exploding on college campuses across america

what gives?

By: Bumble

Bumble — Sat, 22 Oct 2005 07:06:17 +0000

Religious heritage is the key here. All the other ethnicity received the gospel into their culture a few hundred years before we do…

By: ts

ts — Wed, 19 Oct 2005 18:44:50 +0000

i guess those traits really showed through in the godblogcon numbers, eh? nah, i think there will be plenty of time for asian american christians to get into the blogosphere discussion. maybe more of them or “purposeless” bloggers on xanga, and so don’t care about godblogcon-type ideas?

(on a totally unrelated note, my family moved from gaithersburg, md, to seattle in june. it would have been cool to meet up!)