Final essay
We are reluctant to change the mindset that we believe that is right. Mindset here means, the way a person regard as ‘normal’ or ‘correct’. We choose what mindset is suitable to follow. We hold opinion about what is the right mindset about subtle issues. Such as regarding religion, political stance and the values we put the most importance on. Then hold on our beliefs in our opinions assuming it as a solid truth. We listen to those who have different opinions compare to us. But we hesitate to adopt those different views. Mindset is rarely altered because mainly, it is a form of structure. It is a structure that affects how one person will live a life and how one person relates himself with the surroundings, the world. In other words, …show more content…
Shin needed to create a new sense of identity which will explain the essence of what we are. Because Japan was trying to eliminate the observable sovereign power by harassing loyal family, which until now assembled loyalty to the nation. At this specific time, Shin Chae-ho brought the idea of ‘Minjok’. The imagining Minjok includes political purpose. It is a form of Raison d’etat, the state’s autonomous rationality to maintain itself according to Foucault. Even if the Li dynasty fell, the state needed to survive and imagining Minjok made tlhis possible. The way he constructed Korean Minjok is as follows. First, he defined the main ethnic group which all Choson people belong to. With Minjok imagination, he claimed Korea’s legitimacy of Manchuria. Second, he related geographical trait to define and confine who Choson, now ‘Han(韓)people’ belong to. Shin’s construction of Korean nation(Minjok). Benedict Anderson defined nation as place which ‘is an imagined political community – and imagined as both inherently limited and sovereign.’ (Anderson, 6) Korean Minjok is limited because it is imagined to start from the same ethnic group. Korean Minjok is a ‘community, because, regardless of the actual inequality and exploitation that may prevail in each, the nation is always conceived as a deep, horizontal comradeship’ (Anderson, 7) within the totalizing power of ethnic identity …show more content…
The idea of race influenced when Shin defined Korean Minjok. The idea of race affected Korea with the emergence of the west. Counter to west, Korea positioned itself to the east, the yellow race. Embracing Korea, China and Japan was easy with the idea of race to protect itself from encroaching western power. However, 1908, when Shin claimed his view about Korean history, situation was not the same anymore. Japan revealed its greed to become a dominating power within imperialism. Race encompassing east was not enough to claim strong difference further reject Japan’s dominance over Korea. In this vein, Shin differentiates ourselves further by stating Japanese ethnic(日本族). He stated the relationship of Puyeo group and Japanese group as ‘competition and negotiation’ while pinching the recent harassment they are imposing as well as rebutting Japanese narrative of Korean history. He further emphasized that ‘they’ never walked into our land let alone ‘we’ and ‘them’ living
We are reluctant to change the mindset that we believe that is right. Mindset here means, the way a person regard as ‘normal’ or ‘correct’. We choose what mindset is suitable to follow. We hold opinion about what is the right mindset about subtle issues. Such as regarding religion, political stance and the values we put the most importance on. Then hold on our beliefs in our opinions assuming it as a solid truth. We listen to those who have different opinions compare to us. But we hesitate to adopt those different views. Mindset is rarely altered because mainly, it is a form of structure. It is a structure that affects how one person will live a life and how one person relates himself with the surroundings, the world. In other words, …show more content…
Shin needed to create a new sense of identity which will explain the essence of what we are. Because Japan was trying to eliminate the observable sovereign power by harassing loyal family, which until now assembled loyalty to the nation. At this specific time, Shin Chae-ho brought the idea of ‘Minjok’. The imagining Minjok includes political purpose. It is a form of Raison d’etat, the state’s autonomous rationality to maintain itself according to Foucault. Even if the Li dynasty fell, the state needed to survive and imagining Minjok made tlhis possible. The way he constructed Korean Minjok is as follows. First, he defined the main ethnic group which all Choson people belong to. With Minjok imagination, he claimed Korea’s legitimacy of Manchuria. Second, he related geographical trait to define and confine who Choson, now ‘Han(韓)people’ belong to. Shin’s construction of Korean nation(Minjok). Benedict Anderson defined nation as place which ‘is an imagined political community – and imagined as both inherently limited and sovereign.’ (Anderson, 6) Korean Minjok is limited because it is imagined to start from the same ethnic group. Korean Minjok is a ‘community, because, regardless of the actual inequality and exploitation that may prevail in each, the nation is always conceived as a deep, horizontal comradeship’ (Anderson, 7) within the totalizing power of ethnic identity …show more content…
The idea of race influenced when Shin defined Korean Minjok. The idea of race affected Korea with the emergence of the west. Counter to west, Korea positioned itself to the east, the yellow race. Embracing Korea, China and Japan was easy with the idea of race to protect itself from encroaching western power. However, 1908, when Shin claimed his view about Korean history, situation was not the same anymore. Japan revealed its greed to become a dominating power within imperialism. Race encompassing east was not enough to claim strong difference further reject Japan’s dominance over Korea. In this vein, Shin differentiates ourselves further by stating Japanese ethnic(日本族). He stated the relationship of Puyeo group and Japanese group as ‘competition and negotiation’ while pinching the recent harassment they are imposing as well as rebutting Japanese narrative of Korean history. He further emphasized that ‘they’ never walked into our land let alone ‘we’ and ‘them’ living