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ok like I really didn’t want to write this essay but I’m just itching to say this and have been holding it in for a very long time haha. BIG DISCLAIMER is that im not defending them but i want people to understand why exactly they watch their idols commit these acts time and time again. please understand i am not defending but merely helping you guys see it from a different point of view. again not excusing their behaviour. understand??? ok.

okay so people from the west are always like but you should know by now!!! doing a is racist or doing b is racist. it’s 2019!!!

but the question is why? if I am a person from Korea, a monoethnic, racially homogeneous country (less than 5% are non-korean and top two nationalities are chinese and vietnamese which are u kno same skin colour basically), why would I personally take the time to know that or more importantly, how? I do not see people who are different from me (skin colour wise and also general culture) on a daily basis, I do not see their struggles on the news. I do not know these struggles exist at all. woke tweets/twitter threads/discourse on Twitter don’t reach me because 1 I most probably do not know English remotely well enough to understand it and 2 who is gonna retweet English stuff on my tl anyway. moreover, their news source is like naver articles and im v sure naver aren’t talking about this stuff. also big news outlets like vox or vice that typically talk about things like this certainly don’t have their articles translated in korean so I ask again, how?

now I won’t speak for people who have been called out on doing blackface and then apologizing and saying they understand only for them to turn around and do something racist again but for the general population I can promise you that they watched the news of trudeau getting called out for his blackface pics a while back and a lot of people in Asia went … that’s racist? yeah, most people didn’t know it was. and here’s where I want to say that it comes down to ignorance.

I’ll be very honest and say that I didn’t know blackface was a problem until I came to America to study. I didn’t know that the n word was derogatory until I was maybe 16. my country didn’t even censor the word when it was on radio until around 2013. Africans are few and far between in east Asian countries therefore there aren’t any people in our local population to tell us like hey that’s wrong. we learn what we learn about these things through tv & movies (which tbh doesn’t do a great job anyway and i’m sure you’d agree) and honestly you will be shocked to know how many people living in Asia still do not know that the n word is a derogatory term. I promise you that if you ask them they’ll tell you they think the word means bro/dude/homie and nothing else. i learned what i learned about the n word through movies and i know y’all are gonna laugh but i learned from things like django unchained, the help and etc. maybe learnt it from when a celebrity who got called out for using it. so i think you’ll understand now. if anything i blame their PR person for not educating them because surely they see the comments whenever they get into one of these situations.

but regarding the general population, they say we should know about slavery and thus how the n word came about because white Americans used it as a slur in that time and it still continues to this day. but to them I want to say how many of you listen to kpop and know even a sliver of korean history? how about the big one, the history between Korea and Japan? yeah I don’t think many do know or even if you do it’s barely surface level. (i’m talking in general, i know one or two of you are probs v smart and know all of this) maybe they’ll argue we should know about america and their struggles because they’re a powerful country, an economic powerhouse and to that I say what about China which is obviously an economic powerhouse of their own. do you know anything about China;s history or the country in general other than a lot of things are made there??? ye I’m pretty sure the answer is going to be no. sometimes i understand people going like wait how can you not know but then again if you put things into perspective, you’ll then understand why they don’t know. when you’re from your country, your news is the biggest news. likewise, in my country my country’s news is the biggest news too. we have our own problems and issues too that seem like the biggest things to us. that’s not to say american racial issues are not important but it’s just in the scale of things, maybe not as important as the immediate issues someone is facing. it’s like if i were asking an american to care about the korea vs japan thing. you wont because you’re not there, you know? or palestine vs israel, the racial or rather religion issue, war, killing, land issue (im oversimplifying the issue but i’m sure you get my point). again, NOT DEFENDING but put yourself in our shoes and you’ll see why some people don’t know it’s an issue even if it’s 2019.

so then comes the issue of cultural appropriation. i would like to say that it is a western concept or rather moral belief and teaching. I don’t think it exists in the east asian part of the world because they are again largely monoethnic/racially homogenous countries. see when you go to Korea and Japan they don’t mind if you wear the hanbok or kimono. in fact they encourage it lol like in korea you get free entrance to gyeongbukgong palace if you’re in traditional wear. thus it’s always odd to them when Asian Americans get upset over things like a white person wearing their traditional wear. (again not dismissing or dictating how Asian Americans should feel but merely trying to explain the difference in mindset.) take the white girl who wore a cheong sam/qi pao aka Chinese traditional wear to prom in America… Asian Americans got really upset meanwhile people in China were like yeah that’s cool that she chose to wear it!!! and that’s because we didn’t grow up in America and we didn’t get made fun of when we wore our traditional costume or when we brought our food to school. Thus, the concept of cultural appropriation is hard to grasp in that part of the world. So when we see other people wearing our stuff we’re like huh that’s nice/cute.

Even multicultural and multiracial countries like Malaysia and Singapore, we often wear each other’s traditional costume for celebrations and weddings and sometimes just for no reason. It’s normal to us so to this day cultural appropriation remains a very foreign concept. Mostly because we don’t know what it’s like to be made fun of for simply being us. So for us it’s like we see something we like, we wear it. it’s never been a problem so we never think to ask the question: should I not be wearing this? they say we should know that cornrows, gel twists and etc. belong to the black community and they are discriminated against when they have it but when white people have it, it’s okay but again… i’m not in your country, i don’t see your struggles, so therefore, i don’t know. i think the problem is people say like hey it’s racist, it’s cultural appropriation and that’s usually the final message that reaches them and never really the explanation. so they’re like hmm they say it’s racist but i don’t really understand why so i don’t see why it’s wrong and i’m going to keep doing it. AGAIN, not defending, just explaining. (also, for some reason cornrows are a thing to get on beaches in thailand. don’t know why… it’s just a thing and that’s honestly where i’ve always seen cornrows so for a very long time i didn’t know it was wrong to do it? still struggle with it too because my experience with cornrows has nothing to do with african americans, you know?) and this could be the same for many people. again, just explaining, not trying to say it isn’t wrong.

lastly, conservatism. yes namjoon speaks of things like gender identities and feminism and yoongi wanted the bt21 characters to be gender neutral and he hinted at how he doesn’t care about gender. ok but that’s two out of 7 of them. and then take the whole population. is lgbt frequently represented in their media? no. is marriage between lgbt partners legally recognized? no. does the average korean know what pansexual, asexual, gender fluid and so on means? probably not. they’re also still fighting feminism in Korea. ask an average guy what they think about feminism and you’ll get disgruntled moans. they don’t even see why there should be a female only carriage on their subway system. they think it’s a waste. even after the whole stabbing case in gangnam. and the prevalent problem korea has with hidden cameras and girls getting recorded unknowingly when they’re having sex. e.g: the burning sun scandal which of course had to do with WAY MORE than just that. then again korea has some sort of law where they can put a man in jail if they look at them in a way (probably like sexually e.g: ogling) or so my friends tell me. my korean guy friends were complaining about it, and i think it’s in a larger context of workplace harassment but yes that’s what they took away from it, which is telling of what they think about the feminism issue. also just ask the females in korean society how sometimes their brother is preferred over them. East asian cultures typically prefer males over females because the son will pass on the family name. the son will be the breadwinner etc etc etc. korea struggles with workplace equality too.

hierarchy is a big thing in Korea. age matters. just one year older and you have to use honorifics. don’t use them and they might actually physically fight you. if the older person serves you a drink, you must turn to your side before you drink from the glass. especially in workplaces if the older person says you’re wrong, then you’re wrong. arguing is discouraged. and it’s a very famous case but Korea airlines used to be one of the worst performing airlines (meaning there were a lot of crashes) and it was for this very reason. because of the cockpit gradient, meaning co-pilots felt they couldn’t tell their pilots something was wrong because the pilots are more senior thus they couldn’t argue. Google it.

in Korea filial piety is very strong. what your parents say is very important. disobeying them is almost like asking to be disowned. education is big. getting into SKY is the dream. largely unattainable if you are not the cream of the crop but there’s a loophole. if your kid studies overseas for 12 years, when they come back, it’s easier to get into SKY or uni in general. so for 12 years usually the mother and the children go to countries like Malaysia and send their kids to school there just so they can get into a university more easily. imagine that. parents willing to spend 12 years of their lives outside of their home country just so their kid can get into a good uni. and they want to go to SKY to end up in big firms like Samsung and the like. it’s why people do literally anything to get into SKY. and yes that includes going for extra classes until like 12 am. doesn’t matter if you don’t wanna study. you just gotta do it. a lot of pressure in korean society.

Koreans as a society are very herd-like. they all mostly think and dress and wear makeup the same. I know it sounds like I’m generalizing but if you were in Korea 2 winters ago literally almost everyone was wearing a long black puffer winter jacket. the kind that went to your ankles. and when I say almost everyone, I really mean it. there are pictures of it and even videos. and with a lot of trends it’s the same. the straight eyebrow trend. the pink eyeshadow trend. the permed hair trend for guys. Asian societies are taught to blend in rather than stand out. Americans for example reward individualism. that’s not really the case in Asia. in school a good student is a quiet student. not the outspoken student. again herd mentality isn’t exactly exclusive to korea and i dont know how to explain it but it’s quite next level in korea haha. if you’ve lived there or you know korean people, you know what i’m talking about.

then there’s the sogaeting trend… aka the blind date thing… anyway you gotta be a part of it when you’re in college. when in college it’s expected of you to find someone to date. everyone wants to be cc aka campus couple which is actual korean slang. feelsbad if you’re single. on the topic of dating, a lot of people especially older gen don’t like it when you date someone who isn’t korean. even those in our gen also. i’ve also heard it’s hard to make true friends in korea like they’ll always be surface friends but nothing more. i’ve heard this from friends who are fluent in korean too so it’s not really the language barrier. maybe cultural? sometimes they’re ignorant towards other cultures like if you’re from SEA and they haven’t been there before they’ll ask if they live on trees in the country you're from. this is a true story, happened many times.

also most college dorms have curfews and men and women live in separate buildings. and have you ever watched korean dramas and stopped to wonder why hugging is always such an omg moment? can you ever imagine a western rom com series and the cliffhanger of the episode is that they hugged? y'all would laugh. but that’s just what it’s like in Korea. girls and guys dont typically hug unless they’re dating. will never forget my korean friend bringing her other korean friends to their first ‘American’ party (meaning all the past parties they were at, there were only koreans in attendance) and they saw us hugging our guy friends and they’re like wait you guys aren’t dating and y'all hug??? and then they said 와 외국인 스타일… aka wow foreigner style. yes this isn’t everyone but it’s mostly everyone. that’s why celebs don’t hug each other because it’s not normal for them and ya their fan base would literally have an aneurysm. but u kno guys and guys are ok and girls and girls are ok. typically very touchy towards same gender. not sure why lol. also one night stands are also 외국인 스타일. and tattoos are sort of illegal. don’t get me started on drugs. you saw what happened with TOP. to them WEED = BAD. they’re like not weed NOOOO. it took them so long to allow it for medical use. yeah and abortion is a no. lots of christians in korea. also tons of very cult-like christian type of things. you’ve probably seen them shouting at myeong-dong if you’ve been.

that’s not to say korea is superbly conservative overall. i’m just saying it’s not a liberal happyland either. there are lgbt people, there are people who go for one night stands (apparently that’s what clubs are for lol they go there to pick the prey of the night) etc. etc. etc. i know this comes off kind of harsh but i like korea and a lot of my friends are korean and there are many wonderful things about the place and the people. but this is just the topic of discussion for the day thus it came out that way. disclaimer again that my intention is not to excuse their behaviour. just giving a different viewpoint. you may understand and still not agree. that’s cool. i’m always down to learn so if you intend to educate i’m always down to listen. no name-calling and stuff pls. doesn’t get anyone anywhere.

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Teaching History with Simulations and Game Based Learning

Dave Harms on episode 208 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast

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History teacher David Harms uses simulations to teach history. Whether it is World War 1, 2, the Cold War or the American Civil War, learn how these immersive “games” teach history much more deeply than most textbooks. We can engage and excite this generation about history. Here’s how.

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History Simulations and Game Based Learning

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Vicki: Today we’re talking with David Harms @Hist_simulation, high school world history teacher from Iowa.

Now, David, you create interactive history simulations. Tell us about what you do.

Teaching: WW1, WW2, Cold War and the Civil War through Simulations

Dave: Well, I develop some history simulations — World War I, World War II, Cold War, Civil War — and we basically give students a country to run, and we give them some objectives that they have to follow to keep it within the context of history.

But then they really have the options of making choices based on their objectives to try to work their way through diplomacy, strategy, the war, negotiations. There are just really a lot of things going on all at once.

Vicki: Is this a computer simulation, or an in-class simulation?

Dave: It’s kind of both.

We have online platforms with our lesson plans as a subscription service. Teachers use those to manage the simulation.

But the student interactions with each other is really what the big thing is, because that’s where you get a lot of your critical thinking going on.

Student interaction is where critical thinking happens.

By them making their own decisions and interacting, it’s different every time.

It doesn’t necessarily have to end up the way the war ended up, but along the way, they become so interested that they want to know what happened and why.

Vicki: The subscriptions. Is this something that you wrote, or something you subscribe to?

Dave: No. This is something that I paid a programmer to develop for me, because the way we used to do it was with a Word document that I drew the countries on, and we used a spreadsheet with that.

Now, with the online platform, kids get a readable read-only map on their computers if they want — at home or wherever, anywhere in the world if they have the link, I guess.

The teacher can just drag-and-drop and double-click for battles to happen. They don’t have to do any calculations or anything like that. It just really makes it streamlined and easier for the teacher and more enjoyable for the student. And it takes a lot less time.

Vicki: OK. So tell us what you’re doing right now in one of your classes with a simulation. Describe what’s happening in class.

Dave: Well, when we’re doing a simulation… The first part of it usually takes a day to explain everything, to make sure they know.

A lot of times, they can be a little bit overwhelmed at the beginning, but once it gets rolling — the kids are just interacting.

They’re allowed to leave the room at any time to negotiate, with either their allies or their rival alliances. Kids are constantly meeting with each other. We’ve got substantive conversations going on.

Kids are allowed to leave the room at any time. They’re constantly meeting with each other. Even during lunch.

And the thing is, it doesn’t end in the classroom. A lot of the strategizing and the deal-making goes on at lunch. We kind of have a segregated lunchroom. If you’re a Central Powers, you might not be able to sit at a certain table…

Vicki: (laughs) OK…

Dave: … Because they all meet together, and they don’t want you to know what they’re talking about. It kind of spills over to the entire school — kind of watching it online. It’s very engaging. It doesn’t end when the class ends. It kind of keeps going.

Vicki: So — the other folks, the observers — can log in and see how different countries are doing? They’re actually able to watch what’s happening in the simulation?

Dave: Well, they can’t watch it in real time. They can see my map. Every time they refresh their browser, that map will update. It’s not like a live feed, but all you’ve got to do is refresh your browser, and you’ll see what’s happened, the changes that have taken place.

So, yeah. Parents can watch and see how their kids are doing. A lot of times that happens because they get interested in it. Believe it or not, they actually talk to their parents about what they’re doing, because they’re so excited about it.

They actually talk to their parents about what they’re doing.

Vicki: I’ve done some simulations before with the Arab-Israeli Conflict Simulation at the University of Michigan.

My students and Dr. Jeff Stanzler from the University of Michigan presented on this in 2013 at the Global Education Conference. Watch the presentation.. (Will launch video)

One of the challenges is that sometimes kids want to act out of character for their country. What happens to kids’ countries when the leaders start acting out of character?

Dave: For us, out of character would mean they’re going against their objectives. And you really can’t do that. It’s tied to their grade. No matter what they do, they’ve got to follow those objectives.

If, for example — Let’s say in World War I, Great Britain allies with Germany? There would probably be an impeachment of that leader by the classroom teacher. We don’t allow crazy stuff to happen, because that’s not the point of it. But we want to give them the freedom and the creativity to try to accomplish their objectives their own way.

So, as you can imagine, there’s lots of lying… and espionage going on in the background… and releasing information. I even had some kids take pictures of their top secret documents, alter them, and disclose them to their enemies…

Vicki: (laughs)

Dave: … And say, “Hey, I can do that for you. It’s not against my objectives.”

And then of course they didn’t, and they all ganged up on them, and… So it’s just kind of crazy.

Vicki: (laughs)

To help people understand, it’s like these kids are truly living it, aren’t they?

These kids are truly living it.

Dave: Yeah! They understand why, because the objectives that we have for them are the things that those countries wanted to complete — you know, territories lost 200 years ago, Serbia trying to build the Serbian empire back up, so they want these territories. It’s all based on historical facts. Then the kids have to navigate their way through it.

You can imagine, if you’ve got 16 different countries in here, and some of them have the same objectives, you’re obviously going to reach your conflict concept there.

Vicki: Yeah. So what’s the feedback? How deep is the learning?

Dave: Boy. I tell you. It’s just amazing.

One of the things that I really like about the online platform is that now I’m not just typing on the computer like a madman for 40 minutes. I can watch more what’s going on in the room.

Sometimes I just can’t believe the talks that are going on between people and where their thinking is. They’re thinking on so many levels. You know, “If I attack this person, how is Yugoslavia going to react?” Or, “How is the Soviet Union going to act if I nuke one of their territories?”

They’re thinking on so many levels.

It’s just amazing, because it heightens their interest in learning what actually happened because they’re always comparing what they did to what really happened in history.

Vicki: Hmmmmm. I can imagine that the conversations would be really, really deep and multifaceted when you talk about war, rather than a disconnected type of thing. They almost really feel an identification with those who went through it?

Dave: Oh my gosh. They become their country.

Vicki: Yeah.

Dave: I mean, I’ve had people get upset, and storm out of the room…

It’s an emotional thing, because when they attack a country, or they will break a treaty or something? You can’t hold anybody to a treaty; if they want to break it, they’ll break it. And they feel very betrayed by that, like if they were the country.

It’s really amazing, the emotional connection is what really makes it run, because it’s not like, “Oh, I don’t care. This is no big deal.”

It’s like, “Yeah. This is my country. I don’t want to lose my whole army.”

You know, they want to stay in the game.

Vicki: Dave, I’m just amazed that you have built it for all of these experiences, because I mean I’ve just taught it with one.

My nephew and niece are twins. One was the head of Israel, and the other was the head of Iran. They literally almost barely talked for six weeks because they were so into the game.

It’s hard for me to comprehend how much work it’s been, David. You’ve built it. Tell us all of the conflicts that you’ve built simulations for.

For what conflicts have you built simulations?

Dave: Well, I have the American Civil War. I have World War i. I have World War II. I have the Cold War.

This one’s not online, but I have an Imperialism simulation that we do as well. That’s really the first one that we do. And that one is kind of interesting because you’re juggling markets and industrial production and natural resources. You’re also taking over African and Asian countries to try to get those resources increased.

And the kids develop a sense of, “OK. These things are all related!” You know, you can’t produce 800 million widgets, and have a market that can only handle 200 million. There’s no point to that.

Vicki: So David, teachers are going to want to know how to find these, connect with you… We will put in the Shownotes your handles and all that sort of thing. But is there a website?

Dave: Yeah… historysimulation.com … If you Google that, our website will come right up.

Vicki: Well, teachers. Simulations are such a powerful game-based way to teach. The teacher almost becomes the game master.

David is an expert at history simulations, so I hope all you history teachers out there get really excited and take a look at using simulations in your classroom!

Transcribed by Kymberli Mulford

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Mr. Harms, World History Teacher at Iowa falls-Alden High School in Iowa Falls, Iowa. A 9-12 Building approximately 425 students. Design History Simulations and PowerPoint/Keynote Presentations. Also coaches Track & Football.

Blog: History Simulation.com

Twitter: @Hist_simulation

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