Discussing North Korea: After watching the video, what are your thoughts about how North Korea is run as a country? We obviously think they may be a little "crazy," however, they think we are equally as crazy. Let's stop and think for a minute- what if we are the "crazy" ones? Additionally, how does this add to the discussion about intercultural communication?
We are certainly the crazy ones. Here in America we are allowed so much freedom. We don't have government handlers and we have many organizations dedicated to workplace safety. We have civil rights and the freedom of speech. Here in America nearly anyone can receive a driver's license and throttle a 10,000 pound truck down a highway at 100 miles an hour. Here in America a person can enter false information and receive multiple credit cards with six digit credit limits. He can use those same credit cards to purchase firearms and ammunition. What a person does with that deadly vehicle or those guns is entirely up to the individual with very little oversight.
We have medication and advanced medical care in the USA. However irrational parents are given the freedom to not vaccinate their children or choose to opt out of life saving procedures. In North Korea they don't have access to many of the same technologies. In both cases there is irrational human behavior at play. In both cases it is irrational people who are ruining the lives of others. The treatment of the eye surgeon was surprising. The way he was treated was unfair. For him to be treated so poorly and not even thanked was appalling. He provides such a valuable service to their quality of life and is treated as a leper. It is unacceptable that healthcare professionals be treated with such little respect.
Aren't both countries crazy? There was an episode of Always Sunny in Philadelphia. The episode covers the gang and their attempt at providing real, unlimited freedom to their bar patrons. Their bar devolves into a depraved madhouse. There were incestuous patrons and others who were playing Russian Roulette. It is hard to find a middle ground. In today's America it is difficult to prescribe the right amount of oversight. Too much oversight and it becomes a police state like North Korea. Too little oversight and it becomes the wild west. Intercultural communication is difficult because each culture will have it's own peculiarities. Each culture is uniquely risk averse depending on the issue being discussed. All intercultural communication needs to be done with the utmost of care and sensitivity.
We are certainly the crazy ones. Here in America we are allowed so much freedom. We don't have government handlers and we have many organizations dedicated to workplace safety. We have civil rights and the freedom of speech. Here in America nearly anyone can receive a driver's license and throttle a 10,000 pound truck down a highway at 100 miles an hour. Here in America a person can enter false information and receive multiple credit cards with six digit credit limits. He can use those same credit cards to purchase firearms and ammunition. What a person does with that deadly vehicle or those guns is entirely up to the individual with very little oversight.
We have medication and advanced medical care in the USA. However irrational parents are given the freedom to not vaccinate their children or choose to opt out of life saving procedures. In North Korea they don't have access to many of the same technologies. In both cases there is irrational human behavior at play. In both cases it is irrational people who are ruining the lives of others. The treatment of the eye surgeon was surprising. The way he was treated was unfair. For him to be treated so poorly and not even thanked was appalling. He provides such a valuable service to their quality of life and is treated as a leper. It is unacceptable that healthcare professionals be treated with such little respect.
Aren't both countries crazy? There was an episode of Always Sunny in Philadelphia. The episode covers the gang and their attempt at providing real, unlimited freedom to their bar patrons. Their bar devolves into a depraved madhouse. There were incestuous patrons and others who were playing Russian Roulette. It is hard to find a middle ground. In today's America it is difficult to prescribe the right amount of oversight. Too much oversight and it becomes a police state like North Korea. Too little oversight and it becomes the wild west. Intercultural communication is difficult because each culture will have it's own peculiarities. Each culture is uniquely risk averse depending on the issue being discussed. All intercultural communication needs to be done with the utmost of care and sensitivity.
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