We started off the presentation with a game of Jeopardy, political style. We gave clues about different terms we learned from the chapter and the class had to give the answer in the form of a question. It was confusing at first, but the class got the hang of it eventually.
We watched a short video that described different political governments we are more familiar with such as democracy and monarchy.
Then we watched another film that talked about how the U.S. Government is a "scam". It bashes the decisions of the U.S government and gives us an insight on what is really happening in our political system.
Lastly, we watched a video about life in North Korea under a totalitarian dictatorship.
Group 3
Hyun wook Jeong
Ken Zhen
Rickey Li
Xiang Wang
Terentiy Bronikou
Saturday, October 11, 2008
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Gabrijela Peic
It is amazing to see how there are countries that are culturally and politically so different from the countries where we are coming from. In some way I admire to North Korea citizens because they live life by strict rues of their leader. I do believe they have liberty in their political vocabulary, but it must be very different explanation that the liberty in western countries.
It is scary to think that such a narrow minded individuals who run North Korea have such a strong power; nuclear power. However, on the other side, if I put myself in their shoes, probably that is what they think about western countries. They are afraid of us having a nuclear power. They see us as too open, poorly behaved society with not enough rules and limits.
My point is that ethnocentrism is not what we should apply to other societies and judge them based our values and appreciations. This movie is an etic point of view of “Inside North Korea” and we should not judge them on information that are based on an outsider’s point of view.
Even though I have worked in that project I am still very fascinated by the fact how culture vary so radically from a country to another without us really realizing about it. By working on that project I have realize about something from an ethnographic point of view concerning the American society.
America is being viewed as the super power which has influence over 1/2 of the world total countries. However the American societies are disinterested in any of those “conquered” culture. In many cases Americans (I still consider myself more as a Chinese/Canadian than American) are unwilling to listen to matters outside of their personal bulb. They are disinterested in world crisis or events if it is not linked to them. In the case of the North Korea political system, most of the Americans don’t know much or even none of the events in North Korea. Some people don’t even know that there are still communist countries in our world; they think that communism died with the Soviet Union.
By viewing those video and by working on that presentation project I have come to realize how Americans are disinterested in world matter even though they control ½ of the world.
CLAUMERY CABRERA
OMG!!!!... When group 1 presented this video it really impacted me because you know that those types of government exist but it seems so far away. Sometimes I think the "what if"...what if our government was like that? How would we react? How would I react? And that’s what strikes me the most. Most likely if we turned into such a government the first thing I would do is take my family and leave. It’s amazing to see how these people think that by isolating their country from the rest of the world that they are doing something good. But I guess in order to keep your status and your power it has to be over the cost of innocent lives. The whole situation is funny but not funny in a humorous way but funny in an absurd way. When I see things like that it really gets me angry and it almost makes me want to jump in and do something about it.
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