The necessity of college Fraternity in Republic of Korea

The necessity of college Fraternity in Republic of Korea

Youn Su Neil Nam

Yale university holds impressive arrays of secret society and thus far it has been extremely successful. They have reached the pinnacle of power in every corner of global affairs. A Bonesman said

Having the much desired university experience in both elite Korean and American universities. I must conclude that Universities in Korea lacks the qualities and network to suffice to be in top global ranks.
Universities in Korea thus far haven’t provided the desired experience and failed to foster young bright visionaries to realize their dreams.

One thing Korean universities have well done is to train bureaucracies and shape the lads into lack of creative or mindless states.

It is so lamentable that any visions must be sacrificed in order to survive.

Korea precisely lacks the device of network and openness that could potentially make them the powerhouse of competence.

Skulls and bones is the a very good example of how they dominated power and incredibly managed to thrust their members into position of power. A Yale graduate and author of ‘Secrets of the Tomb’ which explored details of Skulls and Bones Alexandra Robbins said.

In order to thrive not meagerly survive the powerful change or destruction is inevitable necessity or both.

There aren’t much initiation of anything in Republic of Korea and the interests are dwindling to minimal level if any. Any hope they have is to perhaps become a member of Chaebal which shapes the social structure of Korea much today.

I so fervently advocate for a global social network as I realize that nothing is so powerfully leveraged if a man is an island.

A stick of wood is easily broken and is perhaps fragile in the presence of gigantic force. However if the sticks are bundled together in dozens they would not suffer same fate so easily.

They are sticking together in the time of needs and preferred and trusted. Harvard’s Porcelain notoriously determined to make their member a success. If a member is not a millionaire by the age of thirty, they is endowment of a million dollars no strings attached. Similar culture is also present at Skulls and Bones. They have been exceptionally obsessed with members’ success, club just give away graduation gift of $150,000 although George W. Bush denies ever getting one.

However most of all, if there is anything that really boost them up is moral and spiritual lessons they catch from harmonies and initiations. Any confidence that were instilled during duration of training must shine in time of need.

Dongari in Korea is so much lacking in every measurable qualities compare to fraternities in America. Fraternity shares the house and meals and have underlying tone of family a kinship. Dongari by the way is somewhat a meeting for a hobby perhaps guys sneak in to get a glace of good mates.

Korea is no longer a mystical eastern land of hermits. It must perform and compete globally. The competition is on, wanted or not. If the social resistance and tension so much at the present level, social collapse and death of Republic of Korea’s prosperity as if know is inevitable. I am not merely desiring nor asking. Change must happen today in this land or we are going under.

Culture Sock causes new cultural ripple effect

A very renowned sociologist from once said ‘when two cultures collide, a new culture is born.’ It is the agony of those who bear it but result is astounding advancement of culture. Proof is much evident throughout whole culture surrounding us. Tobacco for example, is much a foreign culture in early 18th century. It was such a bizarre sightseeing for a outsider to see a holding a fire to his mouth and inhaling the smoke of it. Any trials that comes from it could be devastatingly frustrating, as the effect of it is not well understood initially.

Arab’s invasion of Europe, Vienna stood a fortress against their enemy for nearly decades to protect themselves. Surprisingly then, the legacy these Muslim left them is Coffee. Europeans were unaccustomed to such drinks but they soon found it delightful to consume these dark and flavored liquid.

Also I have been immersed in different cultures many times. There were too much to adjust and I wasn’t so happy. Cultural experience were too overwhelming and you just find yourself defensive against it.

But from perspective of looking back I realized how much these cultures have blessed me and I have  have enshrined them much. Most valuable life experience comes from being in toughest spots or most severe culture shocks. It is irony that but I have to agree that when cultures colllide a new and better culture is born

Neil Nam

response to culture shock

           When I arrived in Barcelona last summer to be on tour in several Europe countries, I was surprised that sunset goes down too much late even though it is on similar latitude as Seoul. My honeymoon stage, the stage of being joyful to be in a totally unfamiliar place, in Barcelona started with bright summer evening. Anyway, I could get to my lodging safely, gazing the sun slowly sinking. The hostel I stayed in was managed by a young Korean woman who was enchanted with Spanish life style that left her homeland.

           About 9 O’clock in the next morning, either the host or no traveler was awaked. While most of Korean people generally rush around to scan famous tourist attractions, those I met in Barcelona hostel were seemed very relaxed. By their favors, I tried an extra sleep in 2 weeks after I had traveled in Europe. I kept late hours and enjoyed a leisurely meal like other ones did. After the meal, I strolled the Ramblas street near my hostel. Vendors would barely open the store or make their first sale of the day at almost afternoon.

           I thought it was the first time to be compelled live with laziness, however, living like a real Spanish people was not that tough to adjust that I had an optimistic temperament inside myself. As a three-night traveler, I didn’t have serious problems in attempting to Barcelona. What I could call similar to the stage 3 was the idea of time which made me feel embarrassment as I had experienced in the Spanish morning. Supermarket closes 3 p.m. to 5p.m. as I already read in many guidebooks. People in Barcelona are a lot more dynamic after 9p.m., eating dinner with family and drinking late at night.

           Getting out of busy daily life in Korea, I experienced a real culture shock. For a short trip to Spain, I haven’t confronted such a new cultural environment that shook what I believed is universal notion into disparate one and even caused me identity problems. Instead, I tried to be the way Spanish people live and see. I spent my days in Barcelona by Spanish time, taking naps in on the beach and drinking Sangria with friends I met there.

 (This story might not directly fit into what the writer of the essay we read. Actually, I haven’t experienced such an episode like examples in the packet in that I didn’t have quite a long stay in foreign countries. Well, but not always do people feel disharmony with different cultures. My case could fall under this. )

After Reading "Culture Shock"

My personal experience of culture shock is when I was 16 which was when I went to the United States for a year. The first stage to me was insignificant. America was much like what I expected it for I remembered a bit from my childhood, and it didn't seemed to be that difficult to adjust to. However as I entered the second stage, I realized I was going to have a hard time to fit in. Talking with people was something that was hard for me. I become so cautious about what I was saying, trying not to offend anybody or to make silly grammar mistakes. At the end I got frustrated at the situation I shut myself off from the environment. I didn't willingly make conversations, did it only when I thought I needed to. So eventually I didn't make a lot of friends and this to me was okay considering that I knew I was going to stay for only a year there. I guess I fled from the situation and gave up to be part of the society.

Another hard aspect was I found it uncomfortable that everybody was expressing themselves so loudly. Expressing one's feeling is important however over expressing was somewhat rude to me. and in this situation I think I never acquired any true understanding. It is still strange to me.

In the reading there was a part about identity problems. And though the reading does not explain a lot about what it means, I think I still face the problems today. I am more closer to Koreans, I speak native korean and I am more comfortable with the korean culture, that is for sure. However deep inside the thinking process is like Americans. I cannot point out a specific example, but I experienced that I preceive the same situation differently with people who were born and grown in Korea. And even though there are many reasons for this experiences, I think that living in America when I was young is part of it. I don't feel myself fully as a Korean nor an American and this is still confusing to me.

After reading the article "Culture Shock".

I actually do not entirely agree these steps of culture shock. It is too theoretical to apply to the real example. I experienced many kinds of culture shock, however, many of them are not severe and it passed me lightly. This might be because of my personality or because I do not live in other countries for a long time enough to feel the real culture shock. I usually do not feel disappointment or frustration on the unfamiliar behavior. Instead, I like newness of the surroundings because it helps me think outside the box. I am not sure if this could be an example for the culture shock or not. Anyway, to me, there were some kinds of culture shock. For example, when I was in Vietnam, some people walk the street with taking their top off and without their shoes. When I was in Italy, there are many ways to flush the water in the restroom. Sometimes it is hard to find the button to flush the water. There are also many kinds of elevators in the hotel. Some do not have the door inside and others have the strange switch system. Some did not start going up if people did not close the door. It has not automatic system. Because of that system, I have a funny experience. I thought that the door will open automatically after arriving at the floor which I choose, and waiting for the open. However, after a few seconds, the elevators went down again! It’s so embarrassing when I went back to the floor which I got on the elevator. And the special dish which is made with snails in France is really shocking to me. But it’s delicious unlike my expectation. The other kind of culture shock is that some countries allow men to have many wives: polygamy. It is so astonishing. And the last thing is my friend’s experience. When my friend went to USA as an exchange student, she lived in the dormitory. One day, when she got up, her roommate and her roommate’s boyfriend were sleeping in the bed right next to her bed. My friend was so surprised and screamed to them because she cannot understand that boy came into her room. In Korea, Girl’s floors are separated with boy’s floors and going the other sex’s floor is restricted strictly. However, her roommate did not understand why my friend yelled even if my friend tried to explain that it is wrong. This story is also a very big shock to me.

Ethics on Medical Procedures

Contrast to the general beliefs, doctors procedures sometimes engage in somewhat odd and non-friendly behaviors that general public rarely understand.

Pioneering in medical researches and medical breakthrough come at a cost that is hardly just. A renowned Canadian doctor in Montreal repeatedly injected amphetamines or other powerful drugs to his patients without informing or consent. No one truly understood what was done by doctors and he was given any objections for decades.

It was now a public knowledge that for some reasons CIAs or governement undergone a public project to contaminate the public sewage of Los Angeles with LSD for few years. To the public outcry they excused themselves that they had to gain better understanding of those medical effect.

Early stages of Psychology or Medicines, such things were rather done without consents and often. Dr. Milgram experiment is a rather famous one that put people in pain and to see how much they could endure, or what makes them object to such.

Legendary doctor Hippocrates was rather famous for digging the tombs to steal corpses, and he rightfully justified himself in name of research and benefit of humanity.

Medical crimes in War times are numerable and some of the famous ones are done by both Japanese and Germans. It is irony today they have such advanced medical capability today

After reading "Shooting an Elephant" by George Orwell

This story was both pleasant and disturbing to read. I enjoyed the story and was immersed in it. However I also felt uneasy and some significants that made me think about my own experiences. Because sometimes I too feel like I don't make the decisions for my actions. I saw myself in George in the reading, helpless and unable to control the situation. George Orwell felt that he had to kill the elephant because the 'yellow faces' wanted it. In certain situations there is some kind of invisible force that is pressured on, and without words or not even a sound the situation itself makes one do things that they did not intend to do. When this happens it seems like the right thing, the only possible choice I can take. However like a panting, suffering elephant because one did not fully commit the consequences can be overwhelming. The elephant did not die because of what it did, however it made an excuse for it's death. The elephant to me was a symbol of the things we sacrifice to make an image or a statement. (Although in class I learned it was symbolized as the british imperialism.) Sometimes things or those are sacrificed even though they are not relevant. The killing the elephant was just an excuse to escape from the force that was pressured upon him. But I cannot blame him for what he did, for I think I would have done the same if I were in his shoes.