What is culture and what does it mean to you? According to the definition, culture means to the belief, traditions, and social norms among groups of people. Culture is important in every area, it effects the way we live, our views to things, and how we react to situations. Every area has its own culture representative, we can know about the relationship between culture diversity and biodiversity. Biodiversity is relating to the certain environment and ecosystems and the culture diversity is link to the population in a cultural aspect. These different culture populations and environments certainly destroy its biodiversity and culture diversity. I believe that government should protect culture diversity and biodiversity by both legislation and funding, government must to take action and protect the threat of culture diversity and biodiversity, if no one takes action, the everlasting power will diminish this issue. Because in any country, biodiversity and culture diversity is very important and the biodiversity is related to the idea of the threats to cultural diversity. Also, the natural resources play a huge role in biodiversity and culture diversity. People and biodiversity involve in culture diversity refers to use the natural resources. One of major factor contributing to issues of natural resources is unsustainable use of resources. The lack of natural resources effects the economy, which is a big problem that government should solve. The government should have involved to make sure that everyone can receive the natural resources and that they are being sustainable as well.
In North Korea, it is enriched with various cultural issues and events. The lifestyle of North Korean People is full of festivities and holidays. The cultural fests of Northern Korea are both traditional and regional. Handicrafts, culture of dry wine, traditional fests, local sports, cuisine of various types including rice-cake, are all part of North Korea Culture. For the prolong engagement in war-fronts North Korea culture was shattered due to the loss of lives and barren-ness in cultural productivity and celebrations. Because of the war, Korea separated into two countries, and this made the North Korea lost some of their culture. The environment change, biodiversity and land loss effected their culture diversity. But the North Korea government take actions to protect their culture. In North Korea school, every student need to take North Korea culture classes, not juts history or theory classes, they also need to participate. The school provide traditional North Korea instruments class, local sports class, traditional dance class and so on to help students know about their own culture to prevent the culture lose. Government provide funding to support these culture classes to make sure that students can receive culture study and protect well-being of all individuals. In North Korea, even though the war reduces the culture diversity, people can not realized that how human actions effect the culture diversity and biodiversity, some people still abuses nature in many aspects such as the extinction of rare species of a specific area, deforestation, over-fishing, and pollution. Also, exclusion, racism, and offensive remarks can also effect the culture diversity. These human damage contributes to these threats to culture diversity and biodiversity. The government needs to be involved to protect culture diversity and biodiversity because the government has more power than normal people, and it only make sense that the government is actively involved in protect culture diversity and biodiversity. Although legislation and funding would be the most convenient ways for government protect the culture diversity and biodiversity, we can also solve the problems of culture diversity as a society. Some groups or organizations can also stand up and appeal to people to protect the culture diversity and biodiversity. But as I mentioned above, government has more power and influence than normal people. Also, the legislation and funding allows the importance of culture diversity to be enforced faster, so I think government should be actively involved in protecting cultural diversity and biodiversity.
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I just finished creating a report on the status of education in North Korea which you will find on my Political and Economics page. I invite you to make comments on this report and give me some advices. Thank you.
The globalization is the worldwide movement toward economic, financial, trade, and communications integration. It implies the opening of local and nationalistic perspectives to a broader outlook of an interconnected and interdependent world with free transfer of capital, goods, and services across national frontiers (What).
North Korea is the most isolated and least globalized country in the world, also famous for its absolute rejection of foreign investment and discouragement of foreigner visits. And most importantly, the government has a monopoly on information which is made available to its population through restrictions on access to radios, books, travel, etc. According to my research, North Korea participate in some of dark side of globalization, trade in arms, drugs and human trafficking. During the 1980s, North Korea emerged as a legal arms trader to primarily Third World countries, exporting relatively inexpensive, technically unsophisticated, but reliable weapons. The countries known to have traded weapons with North Korea is a long list. North Korea has a really long history of aggressively buying, marketing and selling arms. Especially in developing countries in the middle East, Africa and south east Asia (North). According to the North Korea's second nuclear test: implications of U.N. Security Council Resolution 1874, “UN sanctions now ban all arms, including small arms and light weapons. North Korea has developed an extensive and complicated arms trade network in an attempt to circumvent sanctions and uses front companies and embassies to traffic weapons. In a 2014 UN report, Syria, Myanmar, Eritrea, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Somalia and Iran were all suspected to have bought weapons from North Korea.” Another example globalization in North Korea is drugs. According to William Bach, a director in the Bureau for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs at the U.S. Department of State, at least 50 documented incidents can be found in more than 20 countries around the world linking drug trafficking to North Korea. These events, coupled with numerous allegations, point to the disturbing involvement of the North Korean government in large-scale drug trafficking. Unlike other countries where the drug business is operated by underground organizations, in North Korea the evidence indicates that it is operated by government-run trade companies or military authorities headquartered in Pyongyang (Choi). The last one is human trafficking. According to my research, since 2007 North Korea is a "Tier 3" country (those who do not comply with human trafficking laws) as listed by the U.S. Department of State (Trafficking). This country is a source of men, women and children for sex trafficking and forced labor. While the North Korean government claims that these people are “contract workers”, reports showed that they are forced labor. In the “Trafficking in Person Report 2014: KOREA, DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF", it clearly points out that in Russia, there are thousands of North Korean working in logging, construction, and agriculture industries. There workers reportedly only receive two days of rest each year and face punishment if they fail to meet quotas. Although these things are the dark side of globalization, they are also totally out of loop of the global society. Because of the globalization, North Korea has more ways to do these dirty trades. This is the bad things about the globalization, not only in North Korea, these things happened in every where. But because of the policy, it makes North Korea become the worst one, it is an extreme case. Unlike South Korea, after the war, North Korea went the opposite direction which isolate itself. Since that, people have been suffering from extreme shortage of powers, manufactured goods, and poor living conditions. Large scale of economic inefficiency and extremely political corruption causes the closet to globalization that have come to is exporting arms, drugs and human trafficking. For me, I always wondering how North Korean citizens feel about the way their government has been treating them. Do human rights exist in their society? Are they understanding the serious deprivation of human rights under this kind of policy? To be honesty, I can not see the benefit of globalization, in North Korea, I only see the pain which globalization brings to North Korean people. Without globalization, the issue of human rights in North Korea is extremely difficult to access due to the government policy. All activities in the country are fully controlled by the government. The North Korea government claimed that because of the country’s socialist nature, there has never been any Human right issue and citizens are fully trust the system. North Koran is the only extreme case of anti- globalization. The globalization brings lots of negative effects in this country, what we can’t deny is their relay is no alternative to globalization with regards to a country’s growth. Works Citied Choi Young Jae. (2000) “Reporter Disguised as a Drug Buyer Uncovers North Korean Illicit Drug Trafficking for the First Time,” Retrieved March 14, 2017, from http://www.donga.com Nikitin, M. B. (2009). North Korea's second nuclear test: implications of U.N. Security Council Resolution 1874. Washington, D.C.: Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress. Retrieved March 14, 2017. North Korea's shadowy arms trade. (2013, July 17). Retrieved March 14, 2017, from https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/18/history-north-korea-arms-dealing "Trafficking in Persons Report 2014: KOREA, DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF" (PDF). U.S. Department of State. 2014. pp. 231–232. Retrieved March 14, 2017. Which of your friends needs to learn this term? (n.d.). Retrieved March 14, 2017, from http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/globalization.html North Korea is a militarized, male-dominated society. In the Chosn Dynasty which is ancient North Korea, women were expected to give the birth to and rear male heirs to assure the continuation of the family line(North). Women hardly had chance and opportunities to take part in the social economic, or political life of society. There were a few expectations to limitations imposed on women’s role. For example, female shamans were called to cure illnesses by driving away evil spirits, to pray for rain during droughts, or to perform divination and fortune-telling(North).
In modern North Korea, women are expected to fully participate in labor force outside the home. According to my research, women in North Korea are supposed to work eight hours a day, eight hours to study, eight hours to rest and sleep. Women who have three or more children apparently are permitted to work only six hours a day and still receive a full, eight-hour-a-day salary. However, although there are such examples, it appears that women are not fully emancipated. Sons are still preferred over daughters. Women do most if not all of the housework, including preparing a morning and evening meal, in addition to working outside the home. The most of women work in light industry, where they are paid less than their male counterparts in heavy industry. In office situations, they are likely to be engaged in secretarial and other low-echelon jobs(Ask). North Korean men are expected to go to work early every morning, even if they don’t get paid. It is thought to be appropriate and ideal that men obey this policy of the Workers’ Party of Korea, even if the family has nothing to eat(Ask). Therefore, women not men, are expected to take care of everything in the family, no matter how hard it is to making a living, the only duty men are expected to perform at home is to ban family members from doing anything against the policies of the WPK. And if husbands are violent towards their wives the government doesn’t interfere, leaving women to bear the consequences alone(Lee). During the research, I found that violence occurred on a daily basis in three out of 10 households, and less often in others. For me, I can totally understand this situation in North Korea, since China also have this kind of situation, but I can say that we are much better than North Korea, and due to the society develop, people’s opinion has changed a lot and the society status improved a lot. But in North Korea, the situation is still bad. Because of the policy, North Korea closed the door and limited the communication of economic, culture and science with other people. It is very hard for people come to this country, also, lots of North Korean people become defectors to escape their country. In my perspective, I do not like North Korean policy and how the treat men and women differently. I know that North Korea has enacted laws such as the Law on Sex Equality, the Labor Law integrated into daily life to help women, but these social systems have not entirely been successful because North Korean people have an ingrained opinion that men is better than women, this comes from their history, culture, education etc. Although China forced to opened our door, and it brought war for us, what I can not deny is the war brought different culture and new things for us, that is why we changed our opinion and improved women’s social status. I am not saying that North Korea should involve in war or other thing, but it would help this country a lot if they have more communication with other countries. Works Citied Ask a North Korean: are women treated equally in your society? (E. Jae, Trans.). (2015, February 14). Retrieved February 15, 2017, from https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/feb/14/north-korean-sexism-women Lee, J. (2015, February 11). The roles of women in North Korea. Retrieved February 15, 2017, from https://www.nknews.org/2015/02/the-roles-of-women-in-north-korea/ North Korea - The Role of Women. (n.d.). Retrieved February 15, 2017, from http://countrystudies.us/north-korea/35.htm |