Why do you want to be a part of Project Bridge? What do you want to contribute? What do you think you will gain from the experience?
The original purpose of Project Bridge was to mitigate racial tension in the United States. It was created to address the injustices of the 1992 Los Angeles riots as well as the persisting stereotypes against Koreans and other minorities. It would be an honor to be a part of a program that was created to promote social justice, and combat prejudice within our country. I want to better immerse myself in Korean culture and gain a richer understanding of Korea’s history, customs, and society. I strongly believe that in order to prevent the events of 1992 from happening again, we must all be educated about Korea as …show more content…
What would you want it to be like? Now imagine that you had to create your utopia by writing just three laws that, when followed, would ensure a perfect, harmonious society. What laws would these be?
To be harmonious means to be peaceful. And I define peace as nonviolence, equality, order, diversity, and friendship. In order to create such a society with all of these qualities, all citizens must be satisfied, including their wants, desires, and dreams (to prevent conflict and insurrection). To fulfill this criteria, like the ability to achieve one’s dreams, resources must be provided in order in order to achieve such goals. To ensure all of this with only three laws, I would create a body of representatives, similar to the UN, to promote peace in the community. This organization and the rest of society would be modeled and based on 3 principles: honesty, respect, and diversity. The honesty law would deter people from being deceptive. Being candid is important because the truth is the base of all our decision making therefore it should be protected. The respect law would establish a more inclusive community, where people would listen to each other, preventing miscommunication. Finally, the diversity law would create a more accepting society, where one’s skin color, gender, and beliefs would not does not determine, social rank, income, education, or overall success. This would create a more open and fair community where more …show more content…
More specifically, I want to address the heinous crimes committed by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. Currently, the North Korean death camps hold 200,000 North Korean citizens. In these political prison camps, the state has eliminated its citizens through extermination, deliberate starvation, imprisonment, forced labor, execution, torture, murder, rape, enslavement, forced abortion and infanticide. The state arrests citizens on the charge of “crimes against the state” or “crimes against the people” and tortures them until they confess. In less severe crimes, the suspect can bribe the official for release, but for crimes against the state or the people, the government uses the death penalty. Political offenses result in sending the accused and three generations of the accused’s family to the death camps. These crimes against humanity have been addressed by the United Nations in its 2015 World Report, yet North Korea continues to systematically eliminate its citizens. Unfortunately, the world has a history of infringing people’s basic human rights: the Holocaust, Soviet Union gulags, Tiananmen Square, Armenian Genocide, Apartheid policies, Rwanda Genocide, and many more. In all these cases, the government not only failed to
The original purpose of Project Bridge was to mitigate racial tension in the United States. It was created to address the injustices of the 1992 Los Angeles riots as well as the persisting stereotypes against Koreans and other minorities. It would be an honor to be a part of a program that was created to promote social justice, and combat prejudice within our country. I want to better immerse myself in Korean culture and gain a richer understanding of Korea’s history, customs, and society. I strongly believe that in order to prevent the events of 1992 from happening again, we must all be educated about Korea as …show more content…
What would you want it to be like? Now imagine that you had to create your utopia by writing just three laws that, when followed, would ensure a perfect, harmonious society. What laws would these be?
To be harmonious means to be peaceful. And I define peace as nonviolence, equality, order, diversity, and friendship. In order to create such a society with all of these qualities, all citizens must be satisfied, including their wants, desires, and dreams (to prevent conflict and insurrection). To fulfill this criteria, like the ability to achieve one’s dreams, resources must be provided in order in order to achieve such goals. To ensure all of this with only three laws, I would create a body of representatives, similar to the UN, to promote peace in the community. This organization and the rest of society would be modeled and based on 3 principles: honesty, respect, and diversity. The honesty law would deter people from being deceptive. Being candid is important because the truth is the base of all our decision making therefore it should be protected. The respect law would establish a more inclusive community, where people would listen to each other, preventing miscommunication. Finally, the diversity law would create a more accepting society, where one’s skin color, gender, and beliefs would not does not determine, social rank, income, education, or overall success. This would create a more open and fair community where more …show more content…
More specifically, I want to address the heinous crimes committed by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. Currently, the North Korean death camps hold 200,000 North Korean citizens. In these political prison camps, the state has eliminated its citizens through extermination, deliberate starvation, imprisonment, forced labor, execution, torture, murder, rape, enslavement, forced abortion and infanticide. The state arrests citizens on the charge of “crimes against the state” or “crimes against the people” and tortures them until they confess. In less severe crimes, the suspect can bribe the official for release, but for crimes against the state or the people, the government uses the death penalty. Political offenses result in sending the accused and three generations of the accused’s family to the death camps. These crimes against humanity have been addressed by the United Nations in its 2015 World Report, yet North Korea continues to systematically eliminate its citizens. Unfortunately, the world has a history of infringing people’s basic human rights: the Holocaust, Soviet Union gulags, Tiananmen Square, Armenian Genocide, Apartheid policies, Rwanda Genocide, and many more. In all these cases, the government not only failed to