The "culture of honor" in Harlan, Kentucky gave me a lot of thoughts. The basic idea goes like this: because the sheepherders were always exposed to the dangers of their herds being stolen, they had to be in constant stress and had to be violent in order to show that they are not weak. And this had to do with the cultural influences they gained from their homeland, Kentucky.
From the following experiment of young men walking in the corridor also shows that people from the South tended to show more aggression than people from North.
Does this "culture of honor" apply to Korea, too? I sure think it does. Because Korea has always been some what isolated from the "outside world," we have gained a significant sense of unity. Because we considered our Korean blood as pure and undisturbed, we got extremely mad when we thought we were called inferior..
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I don't really get what I'm saying right now. I think the book was good, though.
I totally get what you are saying and you do a good job of breaking things down, leading towards your comments about Korean culture. Chapter 7 will do more of that.
답글삭제As a Canadian, I think the same applies. Canadians have it waaaay too easy. It's the easiest safest place to live in the world. Which is why the rest of the world thinks we are so friendly and easy going. We have nothing to get overly emotional about, and as a result we are actually quite "boring." We lack cultural distinction, and we are basically watered down versions of Americans who have about half as much pride and (at least in my opinion) half as much stubbornness. We are pretty easy going because we don't care "a lot" about anything. We don't have to. We have all the water, all the trees, and maybe even all the oil (that is locked up in tar sands, and isn't in the middle east). Which is why Canadians are actually becoming less liked in the world.
Good post. It made me respond as a Canadian.