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This paper analyzes the aspects of consciousness revealed within the diaspora texts of Chang-rae Lee's Native Speaker and Toni Morrison's Jazz. Korean immigrants and their children realize that assimilation may be the best way they can live just like the native Americans, but it is never easy for them to succeed because they have internal conflicts in private realms and public realms according to Hannah Arendt's theory. Due to language barriers with naturalized Korean American children and their Korean immigrant parents, the communication at home which is called the private realm causes them to be alienated. Meanwhile, African American family history in the southern part of America affects them to keep grasping their consciousness and forces them to remain silent. This situation causes another severance of communication among African Americans and even pushes them to commit the extremely tragic violence. These are how these two ethnic groups came to have ambiguous identities and fail to have a sincere national citizenship. Now, it is urgent for these two ethnic people not to look on their life and to recognize how significant the balance of communication between the private realm and the public realm.
