Tag: Korea

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Cathy Park Hong
Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
New York: One World, 2020

Is it really wise to allow the immigration of people who find it so difficult and painful to assimilate into the American majority?
— Peter Brimelow

It would take a heart of stone to read the self-absorbed, neurotic words of Cathy Park Hong in her book Minor Feelings and not laugh. (more…)

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55 Days at Peking (1963), Zulu (1964), and The Sand Pebbles (1966) aren’t part of an actual trilogy, and aside from Zulu, the films aren’t necessarily about colonialist projects in the strictest sense. Additionally, the movies are produced, written, and directed by entirely different people. However, they are remarkably similar in some ways, and they all have a pro-white rule vibe.

The 1960s were a radical, change-filled decade. (more…)

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Übersetzt von Deep Roots

English original here

Kein deutlicherer Kontrast tritt in Erscheinung, wenn man aus unserem westlichen Land zu den Papierhäusern und Kirschblüten Japans kommt, als wenn man von Korea nach China wechselt. (more…)

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German translation here

No more marked contrast appears in passing from our Western land to the paper houses and cherry blossoms of Japan than appears in passing from Korea to China. (more…)