I start to understand why so many don't make it, myself included.
"To repeat something is to make it possibly anew." -Agamben
I am not totally satisfied with Professor Choi's answer to why a Korean-Japanese director chooses to conform the popular imagination of Korean communities in Japan, in Blood and Bones. Why repeat the stereotypes? Why repeat the prejudices? Is there something more than eliciting excitement by presenting a "whole" people, previously kept invisible in this kind of medium? I think there is.
The quote above is where I derived a different reasoning from. Basically I think that by repeating something made up by others about ourselves, we are possibly altering the nature of that thing. A different sensibility would be added to the things said each time we repeat the things. Over time, this change in the sensibility of things said can effect a change in the original meanings attached too. An analogy I can think of is our memories. We repeatedly go back to a memory, but what we get out of that memory isn't always the same, we go back to that memory in different settings, and we use that memory in different contexts. A philosopher like Kierkegaard or Nietzsche or Heidegger shall explain this way better than I can.
