Regardless, the cultural change was rather quite unexpected – Korean Americans marched the streets of LA, peacefully, a week after the riots in the largest Asian-American protest ever held in the city. A cultural movement centered around protecting Korean Americans and their rights was started; new leaders formed within communities; and today Korean American culture is a vibrant and important part of not only California, but the US as a whole. Being forced to endure the LA riots and the aftermath led to the empowerment and shaping of the identity of Korean American culture. Finally fed up that they had come so far, the women barricaded the delegates in the room and allowed no escape until a peace treaty was signed. President Taylor went into hiding, International Peacekeepers arrived and were greeted with cheers, and Libera had their first peacefully elected president, who was also Africa’s first female leader: Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf. Her comment at the end of conflict was, “It was ordinary Liberians who reclaimed the country and demanded peace.” After much bloodshed, the final result of the Rebellion was that China was forced to pay reparations to western powers for people killed during the Rebellion within China and were not allowed to import weapons for several years. Though not at all the change the Boxers wanted, this proved to be the downfall of the Quing Dynasty, China’s last great Dynasty. The change you seek with violence is not always the change you receive. Photos: 22. Minnesota Historical Society via Flickr, 20. (Fair use) Malcolm Browne via Thich Quang Duc, 16. German Federal Archive/wikimedia commons, 15. User: Steschke/wikimedia commons, 14. James Bourne/wikimedia commons, 12. © Yann Forget / Wikimedia Commons / CC-BY-SA-3.0., 11. Jonathunder/wikimedia commons, 10. uwdigitalcollections via wikimedia commons (via Flickr-fair use), 9. Rimantas Lazdynas/wikimedia commons, 8. Al-Bayyani/wikimedia commons, 3. Fibonacci Blue via Flickr, 1. Michael Mandiberg via Flickr
