...was filmed in South Korea; I will compare the movie with my culture as an Americanized-Hispanic. Introduction Ethnocentrism can be defined as our point of view of another culture; basing our opinion by comparing it to our own culture. Depending on how one uses this categorization we can easily come to a conclusion which becomes more of a stereotype or racist judgment. The effects of ethnocentrism can be negative and affect others in their life in great multitudes. We can use the example from 9/11. Since then many Muslims have been judged and put into a category simply because of their religion; not everybody who is Muslim is also tied into al-Qaeda. Just because woman/man wear head gear also make them an extremist who is out to bomb something. But because of this tragedy, we have done just that, accused and damned their religion and beliefs; because they are not like us and well because of 9/11. “The Chaser” The movie I chose was “The Chaser”; a movie filmed in South Korea about an ex-detective turned pimp who finds himself in financial trouble because two of his girls disappeared. After sending his last girl, he finds out that the customer is also the last customer of the other two girls who just went missing; in his quest of finding the where about of those two other girls he unfolds the truth. This customer is a serial killer! The reason I chose this movie was first because it was filmed in South Korea, second because I...
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...Throughout the 19th century into the 20th century, the west started to have an increasingly great influence on the other parts of the world. Asia, in particular, was faced with the decision of whether to adopt and conform to the western ways or to reject and stick with their traditional ways of life. In the end, Asia adapted to ways of the western “devils”, but most of their efforts seemed unsuccessful while others were quite successful. The main countries that experienced the western influence were China, Korea and Japan. Although all three countries experienced their share of internal and external strife, China and Korea’s modernization efforts were, in comparison to Japan, unsuccessful. The reason for this was because Japan was able to fully utilize their resources and take advantage of the opportunities that they were presented with in Asia, whereas China and Korea were occupied with internal and external conflicts. Although China and Korea weren’t total failures, the Land of the Rising sun overshadowed them. China’s first experience with western imperialism is seen in the 1830’s when they had conflict with the spread of opium and the dwindling of silver within the country. China wished to stop both these events so when they confiscated supplies of opium from British traders, the British government used its newly developed military power to make their dissatisfaction known to the Chinese. This, along with other factors, led to the First Opium War (1839-1842). The result...
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...About Japan International Cooperation Center (JICE） About Japan International Cooperation Center (JICE） Japan International Cooperation Center (JICE) has been involved in various international cooperation activities mainly for developing countries since its establishment in 1977. JICE contributes to the development of not only developing countries but international community through the implementation of the activities for strengthening mutually beneficial partnership between foreign countries and Japan. Our main activities are the management of international training courses entrusted by ministries and agencies including Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), universities, local governments, public and private organizations, international organizations and foreign governments; youth exchange programmes; assistance for students from overseas; dispatching interpreters; Japanese language lessons; supporting conventions, seminars and projects, operation of supporting development education. Besides the staff of 194, JICE has 1080 specialists who are specialized in 31 languages and engage in formulation, investigation, research, implementation and evaluation of projects by using their accumulated experiences and knowledge. JICE, with our motto “Share knowledge and experience. For our world. For the future”, links “Japan’s technology, knowledge and experience” to the world and works on developing future leaders of each country through...
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...KOREAN LITERATURE Korean literature is the body of literature produced by Koreans, mostly in the Korean language and sometimes in Classical Chinese. For much of Korea's 1,500 years of literary history, it was written in Hanja. It is commonly divided into classical and modern periods, although this distinction is sometimes unclear. Korea is home to the world's first metal and copper type, world's earliest known printed document and the world's first featural script. ------------------------------------------------- General overview In general, the written arts have a tradition in epigraphic inscriptions on stones, in early tombs, and on rarely found bamboo pieces that formed early books. Repeated invasions and sacking of the east and west capitals, as well as the difficulty in preserving written texts on bamboo, make works before 1000 rare. Those works were entirely written in Chinese characters, the language of scholars, but of course incorporated Korean words and mindset. Medieval scholars in Korea learned and employed written Chinese as western schoolmen learned Latin: as a lingua franca for the region. It helped cultural exchanges extensively. Notable examples of historical records are very well documented from early times, and as well Korean books with movable type, often imperial encyclopedias or historical records, were circulated as early as the 7th century during the Three Kingdoms era from printing wood-blocks; and in the Goryeo era the world's first metal type...
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...Writ 1301 The Tears of Korean Comfort Women After Chosun (the former name of Korea) was invaded by Japan in 1910, Korean women were forcibly sent to Japan as comfort women: sex slaves of the Japanese military. ‘Comfort woman’ is a euphemism for a female sexual slave to the Japanese Imperial Army before and during World War II. The Japanese military recruited young and unmarried Asian women to join the military, then sent them to brothels in China and other Asian and Pacific countries in order to “comfort” Japanese soldiers. One of the few surviving Korean comfort women, Soon-duk Kim, gave the following testimony to Sangmie Choi Schellstede, the editor of the book, Comfort Women Speak: Testimony by Sex Slaves of the Japanese Military: “I was promised a job as a military nurse…[however, the Japan military took us to] a ruined village of Shanghai. Rooms were divided into tiny cubicles. Each of our fifty girls was divided to one of these cubicles. Now this house became a brothel, and we were sex slaves in it” (38). Kim was wounded due to numerous rape. She explained about the horrible remedy she received: “One day our manager gave me packets of black powder to take once a day…[But] after I used it several times, he then told me the powder was made from a leg of a Chinese soldier’s corpse” (38). This experience is not limited to Kim. Approximately 200,000 Korean women suffered as sex slaves of Japan’s military system before and during the World War II. Today, however, not many...
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...Business Comm. Business in other Countries When working in the global commercial environment, you need to consider the cultural mandates of each country in which you do business, and you will also need to ensure you obey both local and international laws. Knowledge of the impact of cultural differences is one of the keys to international business success. Improving levels of cultural awareness can help companies build international competencies and enable individuals to become more globally sensitive to the social norms of different countries. Cultures vary widely from country to country, and what might seem polite in the United States can be rude and unprofessional in another location. In some countries, for example, in China you'll be expected to dress very formally and be highly direct. In others, however, small talk, getting to know your client and frequent informal business meetings are the norm. Doing business always involves meeting and greeting people. In China, meetings start with the shaking of hands and a slight nod of the head. Usually clients aren’t overly vigorous when shaking hands, the Chinese may interpret this as aggressive. The Chinese are not keen on physical contact, the only circumstance in which it may take place is when a host is guiding a guest. Even then contact will only be made by holding a cuff or sleeve. Also, it is not wise to slap, pat, or put your arm around someone's shoulders. The giving of gifts does not carry any negative connotations...
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...China and Japan shared many differences in their late years. The differences between late China and Japan I will discuss are their gardens, ceramics, and painting: Gardens: China utilized the practice of cultivating man made and designed gardens that took on the appearance of a naturally occurring garden/landscape. Meanwhile the Japanese utilized Zen Gardens which were often big yards that contained sand a few large rocks instead of the usual grass and trees. The Chinese gardens were to obtain the fully natural beauty of nature in an unnatural place, while the Japanese Zen gardens were to aid in the Japanese practice of Zen Buddhism through repetitive meditative work. Ceramics: The Chinese and Japanese also had differences in their sculpting....
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...Japan went through a period of national isolation from the outside world (the “sakoku” period) during the late 1600s. The Tokugawa rulers wanted cultural particularism and they could achieve this by having no contacts abroad, so that Japan could engage in introspection. During the Tokugawa period, knowledge of other countries was rather restricted, but toward the end of this period there were few Japanese who speculated where Japan stood in relation to the West. The general population, however, was ignorant to the significance of other better nations existing and expressed little interest concerning the West. Hirata Atsutane, for example, thought he was certain of Japan’s superiority because of the fact that the sun first shines on Japan each morning. Another example of comparing Japan to the rest of the world in the nineteenth century is in the writings of Aizawa Seishisai, an influential thinker of the Mito school: “The earth in the firmament appears to be perfectly round, without edges or corners…As for the land amidst the seas which the Western barbarians call America, it occupies the hindmost region of the earth; thus, its people are stupid and simple, and are incapable of doing things” (596). It goes without saying that the Japanese viewed the US in a very arrogant manner. They considered the US as inferior compared to them, and for this reason the Japanese wanted nothing to do with them. There was a fear that with the merging of two nations as allies, the West would send...
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...paper USSF National C License Eastern NY Youth Soccer Association is hosting the U.S. Soccer National C License August 13, 2011 in Orangeburg, NY. Click here for more information - Click here to register. 1 2 3 Deinonychus is a genus of carnivorous dromaeosaurid dinosaur that existed during the Early Cretaceous. It contains only a single species, D. antirrhopus. Fossils of the 3.4 meter (11 ft) long dinosaur have been recovered from the U.S. states of Montana, Wyoming, and Oklahoma, though teeth attributed to Deinonychus have been found as far east as Maryland. A 1960s study of Deinonychus revolutionized the way scientists thought about dinosaurs, leading to the "Dinosaur renaissance" and igniting a debate on whether dinosaurs were warm-blooded. Where the popular conception of dinosaurs had been one of plodding reptilian giants, the study's description of Deinonychus' small body, sleek horizontal posture, ratite-like spine and enlarged raptorial claws suggested an active, agile predator. As in other dromaeosaurids, the tail vertebrae have a series of ossified tendons and super-elongated bone processes. These features would seem to make the tail into a stiff counterbalance, but fossils of closely-related species suggest that, in life, the tail could swish to the sides with a high degree of flexibility. Deinonychus teeth and other remains have been found closely associated with those of the ornithopod Tenontosaurus, implying that it was hunted or at least scavenged...
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...Allowance (COLA) ................................. 6 CONUS Cost of Living Allowance (CONUS COLA) ..... 6 Family Separation Allowance (FSA) ............................ 7 Family Subsistence Supplemental Allowance (FSSA) . 7 Dislocation Allowance (DLA)........................................ 8 Temporary Lodging Allowance (TLA) .......................... 8 Temporary Lodging Expense (TLE) ............................. 8 Adoption Reimbursement Expenses ............................ 9 Dental Insurance .......................................................... 9 Thrift Savings Plan (TSP) ............................................ 9 Changes to Pay while on TCS orders ............................ 9 TCS to Korea ............................................................... 9 TCS From Korea .........................................................10 Scenarios:........................................................................12 Single...
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...James Ferencsik Cyber Attack Somewhere in July of 2009, our enemy North Korea decided to launch a lucrative yet damaging cyber attack on the United States and South Korea. These attacks were accomplished by the use of a botnet. A Botnet is basically a large system of computers that are linked together that are violently attacked by some form of virus. Can be room to room, state to state, and even country to country. This attack was done in a total of three waves. The first wave which occurred on July 4th, targeted a mass number of important web sites. Of those attacked were the White House as well as Pentagon servers. The second wave which targeted South Korea only attacked the National Intelligence Agency, the Ministry of defense, and the Blue House(no idea what that is assuming its like the white house). The third attack which was a deadly blow attacked the U.S as well as South Korea’s stock exchange. This basically was an attack on the economy, economy is down defenses are down which can turn a hard target into a soft target. After investigation sources believe that this wasn’t a total attack of malice. Rather just a very bold statement, a “were not ones to fuck with” statement. This is an absolute fact because North Korea as well as Russia are two countries that really should not be played with. This attack happened in 2009, it is 2014 and nothing has changed. North Korea as well as Russia are two very military powerful countries. This attack could have been a hell of...
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...Introduction To date, World War II was the world’s worst event in human history. Colonisation is one of the reasons as to why World War II was the most horrific. Many Asian nations such as Korea, Vietnam and the part of China and so on were colonised by the European powers and Japan during World War II. And it had been raging for more than four years. Although several Asian nations were decolonised by the European powers and Japan after World War II, the wounds of the war were too serious; millions of people died and women raped and killed. Survived people still have suffered permanent injury from disease, psychological trauma of the war and social ostracism. Now, today’s Asian cinemas have been portrayed as traumatic memories of military terror to remind the history. This essay shed light on the significance of trauma in both films; The Flowers of War and The White Silk Dress in connection with the history of Korea. The Flowers of War In 1937, Nanking (today more commonly called Nanjing) Massacre was enforced for 6 weeks by Japanese troops. Millions of Chinese people cruelly died regardless of age or sex. It is also called as The Rape of Nanking, because the Japanese troops raped and killed a great number of Chinese women (Chambers 2010). The Chinese movie, the Flowers of War shows the bald historical fact of Nanjing Massacre in 1937. It is a remake of the Chinese novella, 13 Flowers of Nanjing. Then China’s Nationalist party developed friendly relations with the Nazi Germany...
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...Professor Kaplan University 8/5/14 Unit 8 Assignment Zip-6 has a 7 year presence in Korea. They are now presented with some options to continue to play a role in this market. They can acquire the current firm that produces their product, repurchase their licensing agreement and sell it to another firm, or exporting the product to Korea. If Zip-6 acquires the Chang Dow Trading Company from Lotse Tsangsung, they will also gain some of the expertise that already exists at that firm. The current employees and management of the Chang Dow are familiar with the expectations of the Zip-6 product and the Korean market. There will be almost no training or equipment costs involved in this option. The Chang Dow may also present additional opportunities within the Korean market. The disadvantages to acquiring the Chang Dow are that Zip-6 will have to learn or hire a Korean expert to help ease the transition and communication between both firms. The cultural and language barriers will have to be overcome for this venture to be successful. Zip-6 will also have to learn the Korean market, and labor laws to ensure that everything can continue to run smoothly. Zip-6 can also buy their licensing agreement back and open their own plant in Korea. This will include a much higher start up and equipment cost that purchasing the Chang Dow. It will however give them their own presence in Korea, and not being tied to the reputation of another firm. If they decided to sell their licensing...
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...The essay that I chose to read was “Facing Poverty with a Rich Girl Habits” by Suki Kim. In this essay the author explains of a life altering experience where her and her family was living a life where money was of no object, a life where they were millionaires. They lived in a hilltop mansion with gorgeous scenery and perks that people of lower financial class were not privy to such as chauffeurs, private school and special aides to assist with homework. The author further explains how her life of luxury takes a dramatic turn. Suki goes into detail about how they lost everything in one quick swoop. Her father’s businesses all failed and were bankrupt. She explains how in her country of South Korea that bankrupts was a crime that was punishable with a jail sentence. In a last ditch effort to avoid him going to prison they fled their country with no money to America. They relocate to Woodside, New York. The realization of her new life shows apparent when she explains how she hated her new brownstone home that they are forced to relocate to. She also takes a moment to introduce us to her first “friends” Andy and Billy. The author then gives the reader the new and different experiences she faces as an immigrant in a brand new place. The young girl who had wealth and opportunity was now no more than another face no special than anyone else. She talks about the racial changes in her life as far as being labeled as Asian and learning that there is a conception that as someone...
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...1. Do you think Wal-Mart could translate its merchandising strategy wholesale to another country and succeed? If not, why not? I don’t think Wal-Mart could translate its merchandising strategy wholesale directly to another country and succeed. Because different countries have different cultures and backgrounds, in order to succeed in another country, it needs to adapt to these differences and find a way that best fits in the local market. Apparently, the “U.S. style” does not work for all the countries. For example, Wal-Mart is famous for its low price strategy in the U.S. However, when it shifted its store with the same strategy to Germany and South Korea, it soon failed. People in the countries like Germany or South Korea do not care about the low prices as much as its target consumers in the U.S. do. What they care the most is if the store has higher quality products. So whether succeed in another country or not really depends on how well Wal-Mart understands the local consumer buying behaviors and how much they could change its merchandising strategy to fit in. As mentioned in the case, Wal-Mart hired local managers who knows well about Mexican culture to run the store, while built smaller stores with fresh food products for Mexican consumers so that they could simply walk in and get 1. Do you think Wal-Mart could translate its merchandising strategy wholesale to another country and succeed? If not, why not? No, I don’t think Wal-Mart could translate its merchandising...
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