Kangmin Lee
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If America is a people, are you included in it?
Well, I'm an immigrant, and so I think you can assimilate and have people become part of your people.
It's a culture.
It's like another analogy.
I always use Korea because, you know, Korea isβI'm Korean.
I come from Korea.
But, you know, let's say we have Korea, right?
And then a Japanese person comes and begins, you know, learns Korean, speaks Korean, and assimilates into Korea.
Is that Japanese person Korean?
No, absolutely not.
But if that Japanese person marries a Korean, and then for many generations assimilates, and to the extent they're indistinguishable from other Koreans, yeah, they're Korean, right?
So there are immigrants who can assimilate, and for many generations... Well, they wouldn't be Korean.
Thank you.
Thank you.
I appreciate it.
What do you mean by us?
No, here's my point on this.
America is a people.
And so when you start to get away from this idea that America... You can say America is an idea, but then you look at the Constitution and who was the Constitution written for?
Who was the country built for?