Korean American

From 1955 to 1975, American soldiers were fighting a war in Vietnam. During this time Marine Lieutenant Philip Caputo landed at Da Nang with the first ground combat unit deployed to Vietnam. Months later, having served on the line in one of history’s ugliest wars, he returned home. Physically whole but emotionally impacted, his adolescent beliefs forever gone. In his book, A Rumor Of War, Philip Caputo offers an insightful analysis regarding the psychological damages a soldier faces post-war.…

After World War II, the United States and the Soviet Union emerged as the two great powers, creating a bipolar international stage. After the end of the war, the realist interpretation reigned dominant among other international relations theories. In the 1970’s, the middle of the cold war, realist theory expanded, creating structural realism (neorealism). Though realist theory cannot be applied to explain everything that happens in international politics, it can very well be used to explain…

Am I Worth It? This visual piece comes from the gallery of “Label Me Label You.” The author is Jiseon Lee Isbara who is a naturalized American citizen, originally from South Korea. This piece emerged as one of many as a response to Donald Trump and what he is doing with administration of anti-immigration policies. Isbara felt trapped between two cultures, not have a distinct home, or ever feeling assimilated into what was her new home because of the way she looked. Her purpose of this…

The Vietnam War demonstrates “ The insidious power of propaganda...The longest war this century was a war waged by America against Vietnam... It was an attack on the people of Vietnam, communist and non-communist, by American forces. It was an invasion of their homeland and their lives” ( John Pilger ). Luis Valdez's drama, “ The Buck Private “ explains how the government’s propaganda makes society romanticize war. Valdez supports his argument by illustrating to the audience how society sees…

Jang Hun would be another perfect example. Taking as the backdrop the North and South Korean conflict, The Secret Reunion will probably perturb more than one spectators. The movie get off to a flying start depicted by a very serious tone along with bloody executions where the two protagonists Lee Han-gyu and Song Ji-won compete without having the opportunity to meet face to face. ‘’Married to a North Korean defector(…)’’, ‘’These westernized women are all whores, try to remember that’’ are…

If we look at Reagan and Thatcher’s domestic policies, they had many reasons to strengthen the relations between the United States and the United Kingdom as they shared a similar vision of politics, economics and society. Regarding foreign relations, they were determined to protect the West from the communist threat. Reagan no longer wanted to follow the policy of containment, limiting the spread of the soviet block, but he wanted to roll back communism, to eradicate it rather than contain it.…

Kennedy had followed Curtis LeMay’s advice on the actions to take during the Cuban missile crisis, history would have forgotten the Holocaust and the United States would have ended in a global nuclear war. The United States would have had millions of Americans…

This investigation aims to discuss the extent to which Tito-Stalin split in 1948 created new type of communism or “Titoist” communism. It will mostly focus on Yugoslav policy between the Second World War and the Tito-Stalin split, (1945-1948), the Yugoslav policy after Tito-Stalin split and consequences of that split. The research question that this study will seek to answer is “To what extent it can be said that Tito-Stalin split in 1948 created ‘Titoist’ communism?” I chose this question…

During the Cold War tensions between the United States and the Soviet union escalated because of the political ideologies of democracy and communism. In the case of the Vietnam war the US government backed south vietnam ed by the nationalist Ngo Dinh Diem and the communist led north vietnam, two halves which claimed to be the rightful leaders. In the midst of the Vietnam war the Sixties became the essential period in both revolutionizing social norms and ending the Vietnam war. The…

Doka, Kominka, and Colonial Identity The year 1919 witnessed a turning point in the Japanese colonial policies on its formal colonies, Korea and Taiwan. It was at the apex of Woodrow Wilson’s call for national self-determination that several national independence movements were seen in colonies around the world, among which the March 1 Independent movement in Korea was one of the most fierce and brutal. Although the nature of colonialism in Korea remained the same, the propaganda was indeed…