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Reynaldo MangabatI agree that the aging population in East asia is a an open ended problem. It is going to be an economic challenge for them to take care of the aging population and open to more migration to inject to their dwindling labor force. Asian culture about ancestors and the elderly is so strong as in their extreme tradition they believe that the elderly and the ancestors are crucial in guiding them to even from the afterlife to achieve success here in the now.
Reynaldo MangabatI completely agree with you Ingrid, this is a very controversial issue to talk about. Ive alwyas trained my studnents to be specific with their perspectives in analyzing Globalization. The most common perspective is the Marxixt/conflict perspective - that globalization will always be viewed from the developing country's standpoint as something that is extractive and exploitative in relation to the first world economies. Yes the MNC's are coming in as foreign investment which seem to be good for the developing ecenomies but in the end they will get their profit thereby extracting from the third world/developing economy's.
Reynaldo MangabatASIANIFYING THE CURRICULUM
What can I say? The journey has been very enriching and truly gratifying for me as an Asian immigrant teaching the most culturally diverse population in America. The challenge is to improve my student’s American knowledge of East Asia thereby “Asianifying” my curriculum. I am so grateful with US-China Institute for its generosity of its wealthy resources and experts including its alliance to other organizations.
I was a political science and history professor in the Philippines for more than a decade before I migrated to the US and became a special education teacher and I thought I already knew a lot about East-China. I was astounded to learn more perspective of East-Asia history which I use to teach and experience the impact in my own region in South-East Asia. Professor Clays approaches and techniques on how to customize our history classes to different populations is in keeping with what we are doing in special education – accommodating and individualizing without modifying the content. I would continue to look forward to more opportunities like this and encourage my other colleagues to do the same.
I am now more excited and fired up to lead my students to their journey to history with more Asianified perspective. Finally, I wish to thank Catherine and the other staff especially Professor Dube and Miyake for the rich materials they selflessly shared to us.
Reynaldo MangabatASIANIFYING THE CURRICULUM
What can I say? The journey has been very enriching and truly gratifying for me as an Asian immigrant teaching the most culturally diverse population in America. The challenge is to improve my student’s American knowledge of East Asia thereby “Asianifying” my curriculum. I am so grateful with US-China Institute for its generosity of its wealthy resources and experts including its alliance to other organizations.
I was a political science and history professor in the Philippines for more than a decade before I migrated to the US and became a special education teacher and I thought I already knew a lot about East-China. I was astounded to learn more perspective of East-Asia history which I use to teach and experience the impact in my own region in South-East Asia. Professor Clays approaches and techniques on how to customize our history classes to different populations is in keeping with what we are doing in special education – accommodating and individualizing without modifying the content. I would continue to look forward to more opportunities like this and encourage my other colleagues to do the same.
I am now more excited and fired up to lead my students to their journey to history with more Asianified perspective. Finally, I wish to thank Catherine and the other staff especially Professor Dube and Miyake for the rich materials they selflessly shared to us.
Reynaldo MangabatThe lectures of Professors Kubo and Schaede is a perfect presentation of Japan’s quest after the 2nd World War from its asymmetrical political alliance especially with the US to its economic journey including those so called “lost decade” which was effectively a hibernation and resurrection and economic turn-around. The heated discussion in the class about the asymmetrical US-Japanese relation brings me to my Philippine history where despite of the Philippine-American mutual defense treaty, we can never rely on the US to protect us even now in the midst of Philippine-China dispute over the territorial sea. The brilliant economic analysis of professor Schaede opened my eyes to a different perspective of how Japan permeated the world’s economics by embedding itself on the very fabric of the world’s manufacturing industry.
Reynaldo MangabatChina’s Economic Reform plan under Deng Xiaoping which is both as Gradual and Pragmatic for me comes counter-productive to Mao’s revolutionary ideas. China gradually allowed/encouraged private property in the name of economic sufficiency. The sleeping giant started to wake up as another world capitalist that it is now. All the fruits of Mao’s cultural revolution are now overshadowed by the need economic sufficiency and sustainability. The next question for me is; are the economic gains worth the reforms that effectively abandoned the Mao’s classless society and abrogation of private property.
Reynaldo MangabatThe use of primary sources in historiography is the pillar of historical research. However, Professor Miyake's use of comics as it went well wtih prevalent pop coulture of Anime is very refreshing. I think this will work well with our moderate to severe population especially the middle schoolers and high school students. We need to encourage more of this medium and presentations of history. I also wish to see more research on local history especially in terms of gender to balance our His-tory with Her-story as well.
Reynaldo MangabatI am amazed at the resilience of the Japanese people despite what theyve gone through in history. They've managed to rise from the rables of the conflict- both internally and extenrally. They even managed to have their imperialism somewhat welcomed by some leaders of asia- the alleged collaborators in their country. Their geographical size and it topoggraphy did not stop them from emerging as an economic giant. On the contrary, they learned and enhance scinece and technology even from the west and managed to be on the top of it. Even now after being considered a formidable foe by the US, it is considered as a important economic ally. Even Japanese americans who were persecuted in the US during the WWII were able to rise in upper echelons of the american society.
I would attribute this to the values and discipline of the Japanese people. Most Japanese people I met would not even attempt learn english. If you want to deal with them you have to learn and communicate with them in their language. Their "harakiri" is another evidence of how they value honor.
Reynaldo MangabatI am amazed at the resilience of the Japanese people despite what theyve gone through in history. They've managed to rise from the rables of the conflict- both internally and extenrally. They even managed to have their imperialism somewhat welcomed by some leaders of asia- the alleged collaborators in their country. Their geographical size and it topoggraphy did not stop them from emerging as an economic giant. On the contrary, they learned and enhance scinece and technology even from the west and managed to be on the top of it. Even now after being considered a formidable foe by the US, it is considered as a important economic ally. Even Japanese americans who were persecuted in the US during the WWII were able to rise in upper echelons of the american society.
I would attribute this to the values and discipline of the Japanese people. Most Japanese people I met would not even attempt learn english. If you want to deal with them you have to learn and communicate with them in their language. Their "harakiri" is another evidence of how they value honor.
Reynaldo MangabatThis propaganda picture shows the trust of Chinese society commit their people to military sport activity that will ensure the physical development of the citenzenry. Sports and military training not only harness their physical abilities in order to be able to mightily fight to defend the socialistic country but will also train the people's mind for discipline and endurance to be able to overcome obstacles to the visions of the movement.
Reynaldo MangabatThe picture encourages everybody to join the revolutuon that will liberate the society from the prevailing oppressive feudal system. Mao called for all workingmen of the world to unite, because they have notheing to lose but their chain. The sacrifice and the struggle will all be worth it because then and only then they can be truly liberated from the chains of poverty and exploitation. The picture did not only invite everybody in China's society to join the revolution but to be on guard even after the the revolution and continue to read the works of Mao in their entire life. THis will guarantee and sustain the success of the revolultion.
Reynaldo MangabatI was talking to my students about patterns of history; linear pattern by St Augustine, circular pattern of R.G. Collingwood, and spiral pattern of Giambattista Vico. We were talking about the development of event in history which may seem to be similar but they were actually progressive.
I was particularly struck by the seemingly semblance of event of history that’s happening in countries in same geographic region. A comparative analysis of South Korea’s political development and the Philippines in the late 60’s and the early 70’s.
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South Korea |
Philippines |
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Park Chung Hee |
Ferdinand Marcos |
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Supported by the US |
Supported by the US |
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Elected in 1963, 1967, 1971 |
Elected in 1965 |
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Created the Fourth Republic in 1972 |
Created the New Society after declaring Martial Law in 1972 |
The political developments including jailing their past presidents and corruption in the all parts of the government seem to be the same. Students can see how base culture of countries in of the same geopolitical regions have implications in their politics.
Reynaldo MangabatI love the discussion of Geopolitics. I think it is very crucial to introduce our students to the important correlation between China's geography, and topography and how this influenced the demographical factors including miration and population movement. The professor also showed the how China used their enourmous lad area to their advantage and sometimes served to their disadvantage especially because of their topography, and their relation to their bordering neighbors. I was so fascinated with the statistics presented that night and it sparked an idea of using the same technique and challenging my students to look beyond the numbers and analyze the meaning, significance and implications to China's socio-political status.
The activity of debating with between self-strenghtening, reformers and revolutianry groups will definitely challege students to dig deeper on a particular perspective of china's political spectrum and argue their case based on a chosen position. I wish I could implement this in my class cosnidering my type of students in moderate to severe population. I will have to scaffold this and devop more accomodations for them.
Reynaldo MangabatDr. Kim's presentation was overwhelming but equally interesting. The three kingdoms common feature are so common in most Asian countires like the Philippines such as the Patriarchy, the vast role of aristocracy, social stratification, sophisticated bureacracy and gender issues. I was also amazed by the same spread of western ideas throught the spread of religion. But what struck me the most is the the issue of "Comfort Women" which we shared a lot woth the Koreans during the World War II perpetuated by the Japanese Imperial army. I had the chance of joining the movilization in the Japanese embassy in the Philippines on this issue alongside with the surviving victims. The lack of sincere acknowledgement from the the Japanese government and political will from the Philippine governement to pursue the restitution of the victims was really pathetic.
Reynaldo MangabatI love the Professors idea of Asianifying our curriculum. Iha already started using some mateirals such as the The Red Scarf Girl for my high school students. I wanted them to understand how self identity can be shaped by a person's milliue. This is a very timely discussion today when out society is stratified with so varied position in both in the political ans social spectrum.They can be challenged to make politically correct choices and decisions as they deal with their crisis and challenges everyday. Red Scarf Girl contextualize this in the experience of a young girl during an interesting period in Chinas' history - the cultural revolution. I plan to use other relevant matrials like movies such as "M Butterfly, The Last Emperor, and Sung Sisters. So yea lets Asianify our curriculum!
