Message from rosanna_elgohary

[Anonymous]

This morning's session was very indicative of how important it is to know the history of a country, especially the political and religious history of that country. It helps to better understand where they have been and what they have done to get where they are now. It is no longer justifiable to be ignorant to knowing about another people and it's culture, history, and so on because of all the quick info on the internet. It is vital for us to become knowledgeable to avoid conflicts with another nation and it's neighbors. One example would be trying to include Korea and Japan in the same arena, wheather it be political or in trade, or in any other agenda. This would be asking for trouble. After learning more about Korea's reasons of not wanting to have anything to do with Japan because of it's occupation in Korea from 1905 to 1910 when it was annexed. Much resentment from Koreans toward the Japanese are due to little things that happened during that occupation, for example, Korean's having to drop their Korean names and change them to Japanese names. These feelings continued from generation to generation and are prevalant today.