Asia-Pacific

South Korea experienced exponential economic growth from the early 1960s through 1989. During the 1970’s is when they earned the title as an Asian Tiger. During this time South Korea saw GDP growth from $7.7 billion in 1962, to $230 billion in 1989. (South Korea the Facts) They experienced this economic growth due to foreign aid, an increase in economic policies and a heightened investment in education. There were a few fundamental causes for this economic explosion. But in order to fully…

Stillwater, Oklahoma is a modest college town that is home to tens of thousands of people. For the entire population, there resides only a single, small art museum. The building is currently located in a relatively low-traffic area and is not a grand structure. This causes the museum to easily be overlooked by the community's residents. Stillwater desperately needs a large building to house the artisanal works that circulate through the university and the town. Furthermore, this art museum needs…

One of the most diverse regions in the world when it comes to religious beliefs is Eastern Asia. There are many different religions that are found in East Asia and some of them tend to be quite similar to other notable practices. For example, Daoism is not only very significant to the people of China, but it also has many similarities with religions such as Hinduism and Buddhism. With that being said however, there are also multiple differences among these practices. The history of Daoism dates…

The U.S. Office of Management and Budget’s (OMB) refers to Asian individuals as “having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, or the Indian subcontinent, including, for example, Cambodia, China, India, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Pakistan, the Philippine Islands, Thailand, and Vietnam” (as cited by Hoeffel, E. M., Rastogi, S., Kim, M. O., & Shahid, H., 2012). From 2000 to 2010 the Asian population grew 43 percent, from 10.2 million to 14.7 million, which is four…

Until the early 1900s, countries were separated by prodigious geopolitical barriers, such as mountains, deserts, and oceans. To travel from country to country for trade, or even village to city, meant using ground or water transportation—which could take from a few weeks to a few months to do. However, the invention of the airplane allows people to now take a trip in a few hours which previously would have taken a few weeks. Now, people all around the globe are more interconnected than ever…

As cherry blossoms, once bloom fall, the smell of rice in the air. Busy one half, memorizing the other, this is Japan. I hope to visit this fascinating and vast place one day and really experience the style that they wear. I want to be emerged with the culture they have. Taking in an eyeful of the surroundings they are engaged, but that has only been in contrast of the technological advances that they have achieved in. That is really what makes japan unlike no other country in the world. Going…

places and people with endless possibilities. I have so much space around me to move and a perfect view of the world that keeps growing every second. Around and around, seeing the same things that end up changing. First my day starts above the Pacific Ocean, the world’s largest ocean basin with miles and miles of water going in every direction. As I travel East, I come across North America; it contains Canada and my favorite country, America. What a stunning sight it is to see, over 300…

The country Japan is off the east coast of main land Asia neighboring the Pacific Ocean. It is also known as “the land of the rising sun” or simply “Nippon.” It has very mountainous terrain and Archipelago Island, offers lush forest, hot springs and active volcanoes, and the most notable Mountain is Mount Fuji. Many small kingdoms came to together to united around the capital Nara; around the 4th and 8th centuries. Around this period, agriculture improved dramatically and adopted new ideas from…

This migrant issue has become a problem because of the Syrian civil war, the war between the government and the rebels is the main reason of migration. This civil war began nearly four years ago and has terrorized the country. Syria’s government has resorted to drafting citizens into the army, this led many choose the risky option of taking a 20-minuet route through Turkey and Greece. The route originally required a boat to sail through the Mediterranean Sea, like in the odyssey, but this new…

Indexicality of language and style-shifting in Kebab Norwegian “Kebab Norwegian” is traced to “Kebab Svenska” (Kebab Swedish, now “Rinkebysvenska”) and was imported to Norway in the mid-1990s. Kebab Norwegian was rapidly adopted by the media and by word of mouth, and generally refers to the vernacular, the most relaxed and least conscious way of speaking, Norwegian amongst young people with and without immigrant background in the multilingual urban spaces of Oslo. The term was first coined in…