[Reynaldo Mangabat]

I like your comparative analysis of the Chinese and American propaganda and I'd like for my students to understand the value of propaganda in the in advancing the agenda of the governement. To me more than the pictures and ads, the most effective propaganda machinery is the ducational system. Even our concept of competetion and rewards is propagated by our educational principles of rewarding the achievers and making the mediocre ad below to relearn and learn more in order to succeed in life even after education. We also succeeded in exporting this educational system around the world especially the former colonies of the United States. This allowed those countries to effectively assimilate the same principles in the propaganda.

[Reynaldo Mangabat]

While Marx and Engels popularized the call for all working men of the world to unite in order to awaken the proletariat in their revoluton agaisnt the bourgoisie, Mao also succeded in suing this in his People's revolution. Mao made the workers realized that they have nothing to lose but their chains so they do not have to be afraid to join the revolution for their liberation agains oppression. His "service to the people" inculcate to the heart and mind of the chinese revlolutionaries the primordial cause of the people in their cultural revlolution. He succeded in calling for the loyalty to the revlutionary line whih also means loyalty to Mao Zedong. 

 

[Reynaldo Mangabat]

While I agree with you Kim on your critic about Xu Zhengkeng 2 years in America and his strong and sweeping generalizations about its people, I find some truths ans even share with him on some of his observations. As a Capitalist country, I think he is right about how americans value Money which is why we cherish time. From someone who came from a more laid back poor Third Word country, I find this to be true and while Its stressing me out tremendously, I am slowly assimilating the culture already. However, I am somewhat reluctant about his thing about Americans being superstitious and he used examples that we asians strongly believed. I think with our materialism and out concept of time being essential and eveil that we need to seize, we do not have time for superstitions.

 

 

 

[Reynaldo Mangabat]

Yes and very important to make the student understand the real meaning of development and what are the indicators behind it. Development studies is an whoistic look at a nations history, politics, economics and sociology. It analyzes the meaning of development by looking at different paradigms or perspective in looking at development. Yes, Developnet is broader than growth in that development has to be sustainable. One has to have a clear understanding a the nation's history in order to understand the paradigm of development they are trying to pursue. Third World countries for example, who were formenr colonies of the First World countries whould understably go for Modernaization Paradigm completely abandoning their agricultural topography in the name of development. This will result to more displacement and favoring only few rich people/politicians. This politicians will then be responsible in following the Dependency Paradigm which allows them to collaborate with formenr colonial master thereby protecting their own politicala nd economic interests.

[Reynaldo Mangabat]

I cant help but correlate this witht the War on Drugs launched by the Philippine President Duterte. This has been very controversial even in the eyes of the internatioanl community for the Human Rigths violation. It is summarily excuting end users and retailers without due process and letting go and allegedly protecting the wholesellers and sources of drugs from China. President Duterte's family is also allegedly behind the protection of the big chinese drug suppliers in the Philippines. He has strong friendship whith the China despite its agression it the Philippine territorial sea. 

[Reynaldo Mangabat]

I am also fascinated by the role of Sun Yat sen as the father of Republic of China, Chiang Kai-Shek and his Koumintang Party and his significant role in the Sino-Japanese war, and Dr. Kung Hsiang-Hsi an economist banker influential for the Koumintang Led-nationalist government of Ching Kai-Shek. However, I was more intrigue by the role of the Soong sisters feature in the movie "Soong Sisters" who all grew up in the Qing Dynasty - the dynasty that was weakened by one of the sister's huband, Sun Yat Sen. The sisters were raised by a rich and prestigious printing magnate. These women were behind these peowerful men hin Chinese history and worth analyzing according to herstory.

[Reynaldo Mangabat]

That was an impressive deconstruction ofyour first picture. I like how you emphasized on the gender issue which is very much in the spirit of Mao's revolution. Its very good to teach our students to analyze using different perspectives and be propaganist themselves. I tried this with my students before using different socilogical perspectives from feminist, conflict, structural-functionalist, historical and symbolic interactionism. Trust me it stimulated them and engaged them even more to the discussion of history. 

[Reynaldo Mangabat]

KPop is a musical genre consisting of electronic, hip hop, pop, rock, and R&B music originating in South Korea.  Korean pop musicians incorporated partially Europop and mostly American popular music styles such as hip hop, rock, jazz, and electronic dance in their music. In 1992 the emergence of Seo Taiji & Boys marked a revolutionary moment in the history of K-pop. I think the malagamation of Europop and American Pop music, the colorful clothes and the color theory, thir story telling and personality and fashiod is making it a great hit worldwide. How that is hooking the whole world will remain a history.

[Reynaldo Mangabat]

I always use a strategy of debating between a linear pattern of history according to St Agustine and circular pattern of of RG Collingwood. Linear because from the begining of time everything is predestined and circullar because history repeats itself. My students will choose a position between history as linear or circular in development. They will argue their side citing examples and in the end you can introduce another pattern which is spiralby Giambattista Vico. Semblance of thins in history does not mean they are really being repeated but its developing, people are learning so its should be growing and developing to a better change.

[Reynaldo Mangabat]

Kathryn, I read an interesting account about the Chinese Exclusion Act from Ronald takaki's A Diffeent Mirror in which he said that the horror of this racist law was somewhat ironically changed by natural calamity like the big earthquake in San Francisco. This devastated all records and chinese men claimed that they were born here and there were no records to probe otherewise so they became citizens despite this act. 

[Reynaldo Mangabat]

Its amazing how China managed to emerged as a superpower and overcome most challenges in history considering it borders 14 countries which can be very hard to protect its territorial integrity. Their large and diverse population was also another challenge in term of sustaining their needs vis-a-vis the food resource and services that they need to distribute. They've gone to the gruesome extent of implemting a policy of selective abotion which was seemed justified by their leaders at that time. 

[Reynaldo Mangabat]

Thank you Professor Clay for this powerpoint. I was able to use this with my students particularly the contibution of one country's geography and even it demography in shaping it power and influence in international politics. How that large land area may be an ecomonomic asset especially if it has rich natural resources but it can equally be a liability militarily because of the vast territory that needed defense from foreign invassion.

[Reynaldo Mangabat]

Thank you Kim for sharing this link. I find this very helpfull in enriching the limited materials of my students on alternate curriculum. I also wanted to comment on the cultural context of the exceprt you shared from Lina Sue Park's "When my Name Was Keoko". As an Asian man myself it is very significant for us to value and be recognized for our names. Our names is tantamount to our honor especially among men. So to change the Korean name of the uncle to Japanese name would be euqal to surrendering your integrity and honor and without those, what's the meaning of their existence or manhood? 

[Reynaldo Mangabat]

This is an issue that have was able to make a lot of connnection when I was in the Philippines. I have been able to join them in their mobilizations at the Japanese embassy seeking their govenment recognition of the suffering of the comfort "lola" (grandma) and the just reparation for the survivors. One very controversial aspect was the appearance of some comfort gays/transgenders who were also exploited and prostituted by theJapanese imperial army in the Philippines during the IIWW.

[Reynaldo Mangabat]

I completely agree o that strategy of comparing the social class structure in Korea 1800-1945 and compare how it to how social classes now are still stratified in their society. It woud be interesting to know how much more complex that social stratification is now and what are the factors that contribute to the social stratification aside from economic factors. 

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