So your response is to double down on the ableism? Incredible.
And yes, I use DPRK and ROK, because Korea is one nation with 2 governments. I refuse to legitimize the division into 2 countries, as that erases the shared history and collective struggle, as well as the mutual desire for reunification.
The bit on the “western world” building the internet is just chauvanism, especially considering it’s countries like the PRC that actually build everything the west consumes.
No idea what the previous comments were, but definitely want to comment on some things here.
Most younger Koreans don’t see the peninsula as one nation. They feel that the North and South have diverged enough that they should just make peace and do their own things. The “mutual desire for unification” is not ubiquitous, and “unification” is better described as “conquest.”
And acknowledging the current state doesn’t invalidate history. We can acknowledge that the present is different from the past. We can acknowledge that there is a shared history and various collective struggles but that different people decided to go different ways.
That doesn’t erase the colonization of the ROK by the US, and just because younger generations don’t feel as attached to a shared identity doesn’t mean that said identity does not exist.
So your response is to double down on the ableism? Incredible.
And yes, I use DPRK and ROK, because Korea is one nation with 2 governments. I refuse to legitimize the division into 2 countries, as that erases the shared history and collective struggle, as well as the mutual desire for reunification.
The bit on the “western world” building the internet is just chauvanism, especially considering it’s countries like the PRC that actually build everything the west consumes.
No idea what the previous comments were, but definitely want to comment on some things here.
Most younger Koreans don’t see the peninsula as one nation. They feel that the North and South have diverged enough that they should just make peace and do their own things. The “mutual desire for unification” is not ubiquitous, and “unification” is better described as “conquest.”
And acknowledging the current state doesn’t invalidate history. We can acknowledge that the present is different from the past. We can acknowledge that there is a shared history and various collective struggles but that different people decided to go different ways.
That doesn’t erase the colonization of the ROK by the US, and just because younger generations don’t feel as attached to a shared identity doesn’t mean that said identity does not exist.