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No it isn't (what you said) - This piece is purely an observation. To understand something, you have to observe it. To really understand something you have to
by gerdesj 9y ago
No it isn't (what you said) - This piece is purely an observation.
To understand something, you have to observe it. To really understand something you have to observe it in minute detail and ideally experience it.
Anyway, this is a small piece of research that provides us with a small detail about a culture that we, as outsiders, have little real contact with. Make no mistake that the vast majority of Norks are people that are just like you and me, except that most of them live way below a "bread line" that you or I would find intolerable.
Why not take the opportunity presented to discover a bit more about something that you know little about, instead of deriding 25 million people for being who they are or living where they do.
- Randgalt 9y agoAre you implying they have a choice about where they live? As it happens, I've learned many things about the DPRK and what life is like there. So, I'm confident in saying that there are millions who'd love to get out of that hell-hole if they could.
- gerdesj 9y agoNo mate, in my post I never mentioned choice, I did opine: "that most of them live way below a "bread line" that you or I would find intolerable." Does that fit with your observations?
- thaumasiotes 9y agoFYI: the bread line is the line (of people) that you have to wait in to buy bread.
- 4WIW 9y ago> To really understand something you have to observe it in minute detail and ideally experience it. Call me squarehead but I refuse to "experience" life in North Korea, not even close to this. Also, I think if I were ordinary North Korean experiencing all the atrocities of the regime I would be really bothered by this act of "observation"; it feels quite a bit like being an animal in the zoo cage being stared at by the bored public.