Message from staylor

[Anonymous]

This session filled in a lot of blanks for me with regards to Korean history post 1945. While I had some previous superficial knowledge of Korea up to this point, I did not know much if anything about North Korea in particular. I knew who the leaders were, but not their perspective on Korean unity, their economic needs, or anything else specific. I did find it quite humorous when we saw the picture of that goliath behemoth structure in the capital of North Korea that is unusable and unlivable. With regards to South Korea, I had thought their democratic movement came far earlier than the late 80s. I was not at all surprised to discover the US supported a dictatorship despite the desires of the people. Nor was I surprised to find out a number of Koreans began to dislike or even hate the US due to this foreign policy. I teach my kids constantly of contradictions in US policies at home and abroad, so this will help in those discussions. I believe it is important our kids don't grow up with that arrogant "USA is the best and is always right" attitude, since it is that every attitude that leads to many foreigners disliking Americans. Thus, I teach them to question everything and its accuracy, and this information definitely helps.