The Cleanest Race: How North Koreans See Themselves and Why It Matters (repost)
The Cleanest Race: How North Koreans See Themselves and Why It Matters By B.R. Myers
Publisher: Mel.,vil.le Ho.use 2010 | 208 Pages | ISBN: 1933633913 | EPUB | 10 MB
Publisher: Mel.,vil.le Ho.use 2010 | 208 Pages | ISBN: 1933633913 | EPUB | 10 MB
A particularly nasty strain of racist propaganda has enabled North Korea's dictatorship to maintain power, according to this fascinating cultural survey. An American-born, South Korea-based instructor of North Korean literature, Myers (A Reader's Manifesto) combines his cultural and linguistic fluency with sharp analysis to throw light on one of the world's most closed-off cultures. Examining North Korean books, news broadcasts, and films, Myers finds that the country's supremacist propaganda can be traced to imperial Japan, which sought to convince Koreans that they were part of the "world's purest race." Myers acidly discredits Western interpretations of North Korea as "hard-line communist" or "Confucian," noting the prevalence of maternal rather than paternal imagery and the societal scorn for the former Soviet bloc.