This article gives me the time to think sexual identities in teaching for the first time. Particularly the matters about homosexuality and the other sexual identities. To be honest, I’m not familiar with sexual identities because that issue begins to be emerging problem very recently in Korea. But through this article, I came to know the concepts of queer theory and I learned many things.
A few months ago, when I talked about cultural shock with a native teacher from Canada. I was surprised to hear that he thought that my school boys were gays because they held hands and arm in arm sometimes. I have never thought like that because homo sexuality is not common in Korea. And I think boys can touch each other because they are definitely not sexual partners. Though they are gays they never hold hands in public because in Korea there’s not enough social recognition about the issue. So sexual identities are done in different ways in different cultural contexts, and it calls for a close look at social contexts.
After reading this article, I realized that I should try to understand and consider the diverse sexual identities or sexual minorities including. bisexual, transgenderal in my teaching context as an English teacher. Also this article changed my prejudicial attitudes on the sexual minorities and widened my range of thinking
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