Reddit reviews The Cleanest Race: How North Koreans See Themselves and Why It Matters
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Well, his father also supposedly does not poop, and according to The Cleanest Race he is often depicted with maternal qualities.
Yeah - Hibachi is a charcoal brazier. And, even in the US, often used to refer to those small charcoal Japanese-style BBQ grills.
It's kind of funny when you have ethnic Koreans - who otherwise tend to have a huge amount of nationalistic pride - running so many fake Japanese restaurants in the US. Of course, most Americans could not care less (as they can't tell the difference) but to anyone who knows the real thing (whether Japanese or an expat), it's disappointing.
A few immediate clues to the fact a Japanese restaurant might not be authentic:
I've even had one nationalistic Korean - after they found out I was stationed in Japan - try to convince me that sushi was invented by Koreans and stolen by the Japanese. The same guy also went into great detail on how the Korean language was the most scientific language in the world and how theirs is the purest race in the world. I was recently semi-surprised to see a new book on North Koreans titled The Cleanest Race: How North Koreans See Themselves and Why It Matters ... so it was then I realized my angry patriotic friend was definitely not an outlier with his outspoken opinions!
There is a similar situation in Japan with "Indian" cuisine. Pakistanis (who generally don't like being identified as Indians) discover that in order to successfully attract Japanese clientele to their restaurants in Tokyo often need to fly the Indian flag. It must kill them on the inside to do this, I reckon.
Comments like this are why /r/worldnews gets the reputation for being anti-west no matter what the cost and turns us into Encyclopedia Dramatica fodder. There is no way in hell North Korea will ever give up it's nukes and to think differently is silly. For them to dump their nukes would take away a good chunk of their weight internationally and take away legitimacy from their government. North Korea will never be peaceful as long as the Kims run the show because they need to demonize the west and South Korea to remain in power. If they ever went to a hippy, drum circle strategy of diplomacy and governance their people and/or the army would knock them out very quickly. Where is Christopher Hitchens to give you a good Hitch-slap?
Before you comment back, I highly suggest you read The Cleanest Race by B.R Meyers to get a good idea of what we're dealing with. Educate yourself.
It's one of the absolute best I've read on NK. A few others that I love:
http://www.amazon.com/Cleanest-Race-Koreans-Themselves-Matters/dp/1933633913/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1313658247&sr=1-1
Currently reading:
http://www.amazon.com/Under-Loving-Care-Fatherly-Leader/dp/0312323220/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1313658269&sr=1-1
Has anyone checked out this book that was referenced in the article? Looks like it just got published: The Cleanest Race
North Korea is worse than we can imagine. This book was like some ghastly mix of 1984 and The Gulag Archipelago.
[Visit to a Small Planet.](https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2001/01/hitchens-200101
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They teach The Diary of Anne Frank in their schools -- as an allegory: Anne = North Korea; the US = the Nazis.
This book is a really good read if you want to learn more about North Korea. It also has some fascinating reproductions of their crazy-ass paintings.
ha ha .. yeah, it is.
http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2010/02/19/northkorea/
http://www.amazon.com/Cleanest-Race-Koreans-Themselves-Matters/dp/1933633913
http://onglobalisation.com/2010/04/23/immersion-in-propaganda-race-based-nationalism-and-the-un-figure-outable-vortex-of-juche-thought/
Hitchens (2010) recommended Myer's The cleanest race: How North Koreans see themselves and why it matters.
I recommend Demick's (2010) Nothing to envy: Ordinary lives in North Korea and Martin's (2006) Under the loving care of the fatherly leader: North Korea and the Kim Dynasty.
The Cleanest Race
via amazon:
"Drawing on extensive research into the regime’s domestic propaganda, including films, romance novels and other artifacts of the personality cult, Myers analyzes each of the country’s official myths in turn—from the notion of Koreans’ unique moral purity, to the myth of an America quaking in terror of 'the Iron General.' In a concise but groundbreaking historical section, Myers also traces the origins of this official culture back to the Japanese fascist thought in which North Korea’s first ideologues were schooled."