North Korean defector Yeonmi Park‚ the young woman featured in Reason.com’s article Yeonmi Park’s North Korean Defector Story‚ is a hero to many‚ although few people in North Korea will hear about her brave escape. It’s doubtful that North Korea’s security establishments would allow Yeonmi Park’s story to inspire her peers since the media is state-controlled and Internet access is strictly monitored. Dissident writers‚ who may have reported Park’s escape‚ have no options for publishing their stories
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never let concentration camps like that of Hitler’s in Nazi happen again. However‚ North Korea has concentration camps in the modern era. But North Korean concentration camps have lasted longer than Nazi concentration camps. No country takes action or helps North Korean political prisoners. North Korea commits crimes against humanity. There are 150‚000 to 200‚000 North Koreans in concentration camps. These Koreans are in death camps for minor crimes and most of the time for actions not even considered
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Discuss ethical issues arising from studies of obedience to authority. Ethics are standards which distinguish between what is right and wrong‚ and psychological studies must comply with certain ethical guidelines. Studies face issues regarding whether the study is acceptable and justified. Some of these guidelines include deception‚ consent‚ psychological harm‚ right to withdraw‚ confidentiality and a thorough debriefing‚ which were produced to help psychologists resolve ethical issues in research
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IMPACT OF K-POP CULTURE IN NORTH EAST INDIA By: Vanlalfeli There is a foreign invasion taking place in India’s Northeast region. But the invasion is not from neighboring countries like China or Bangladesh. This time round‚ it is a cultural invasion. The North eastern states have been experiencing a shift in cultural assimilation from western Americanize ethos(people‚ system) to Korean and Japanese culture. The wave of globalization and information and communication technology revolution has also
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Obedience Some of the darkest times in history have resulted from passive obedience‚ not from large acts of violence. Howard Zinn‚ a social activist‚ once stated “Historically‚ the most terrible things – war‚ genocide‚ and slavery – have resulted not from disobedience‚ but from obedience.” In many instances‚ leaders or dictators have taken over a specific group of people and caused them to obey their commands by frightening them with authority. Obedience appears as the main cause of war‚ genocide
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Obedience to Authority As a child growing up‚ everyone was told “respect your elders” or “listen and obey”. As children grow into teenagers‚ they start pushing the boundaries to see who they really need to obey. Throughout adulthood‚ though people have fewer and fewer authority figures as the years go by‚ everyone must obey someone. Though we all have someone to obey‚ when does the respectful obedience cross the line into dangerous territory? Obedience becomes dangerous when it becomes physically
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Phenomena: Obedience to Authority Obedience is a social psychology phenomenon where people willingly do something to obey a certain figure of authority that instructed them to do something that conflicted with their moral sense. People obey those authority figures because they believe that they have lesser intellectual‚ power‚ experience or position than that figure. Obedience comes in many different forms‚ for example obedience to law‚ obedience to god‚ obedience to social norms or obedience to spouse
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Society’s Tendency to Pass on Responsibility The Obedience to Authority Experiment of Stanley Milgram is one of the most studied experiments in American history due to its wide-ranging social implications. The study gained popular attention because it aimed to provide some insight as to why the Holocaust had escalated in such a way. The study was designed around testing the degree of inflicted pain strangers would give to others‚ under orders by an experimenter. Not only did the study defy what
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The Korean War destroyed most of the country’s economy (Ember 1206). North Korea relied heavily on foreign aid from countries like the Japan and the United States (1207). The estimated cost of the war was between 67 billion to 164 billion dollars (Fincher 42). In the late 1900s‚ floods caused a famine and dropped the country’s economy (Ember 1207). Food aid had been provided but not since 2009 (“North” Central). Poverty increased and with the lack of food‚ crime increased (Ember 1207). During the
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affected North Korea’s economy today as well as the human rights of its citizens. Kim Jong- Un is the current dictator of North Korea in a communist country (“North” News). “The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea” is North Korea’s official name. (“ North” News). In 1945‚ after Japan surrendered in World War II‚ Korea was divided into North and South Korea (Ember 1204). Many families were separated from loved ones and resources on the land were too (“North” Central). Thousands of Koreans attempt
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