Teachers, Kim says, are losing their authority because students can acquire information via the Internet. Kim says he doesn't know what the ultimate outcome of all this change will be. He recalls that as a youth, he lived under Japanese colonization and was forbidden to speak Korean in public. But he and other Koreans spoke their native language in their homes because the Japanese had no way to enforce their rules there. It has more power than a change imposed by an imperialist or colonial regime.
Voluntary change is more effective than any forced change.
In it he writes about how some Southern cultural traits, individuals, and inventions have become globally known and discusses their impact on world culture. Some Southern cultural traits go around the world, such as Coca Cola, Pepsi Cola, and Dr. Pepper-these are all Southern inventions. As for sports, Kim points to the Kentucky Derby, the strength of Southern football, and to great athletes from the South, such as Michael Jordan from North Carolina, Hank Aaron from Alabama, and Muhammad Ali from Kentucky. The South has changed from a simple mix of African Americans and whites, Kim says. Even as early as 1869, the South had a large Hispanic and Chinese population in the Mississippi Delta.