> The most noticeable difference was the rarity of emotional expressions in North Korean language. Professor Care noted, “Words like ‘I love you,’ ‘I like it,’ ‘I’m happy,’ or ‘I’m glad’ are rarely heard,” adding, “While the word ‘love’ exists, its usage frequency is nearly zero.”
So, what does this prove? A bunch of defectors, who live miserable lives, even now, are unhappy, so that somehow means the government of the DPRK suppresses the term "happy?" Lol.
“Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.” - Carl Jung
사랑해요. Some day my korean will be good enough that I'll take time to learn the northern dialect.
Idk if this is the result of an active organized effort to eradicate said words by some department of truth, as it was in the novel. It could easily be the organic result of a few generations living through an absurd dictatorship in a prison country.
Here is the band Leibach giving a concert in North Korea.
Look carefully at the audience.
it's the same thing you'd expect from any audience without the culture of rock music. europeans have been acting like that at performances of classical music for centuries.
It's not just that
it's a different culture. calling it "literally 1984" is just xenophobia.
If you can see then you can see. If you can't then there's no point in talking.
see what? that different cultures don't react to things the same way we do? what does any of that have to do with 1984?
I guess to understand that you need to understand the nature of power.
a sentence that manages to say nothing at all. now you're back to 1984 territory. unfortunately, the words in it still fail to really be relevant. "the nature of power" isn't the difference between someone raised on rock and roll and someone raised on classical music.
The book 1984 is about power. Hope that helps.
I've read it. cover to cover. not only is this a pretty gross oversimplification, you still don't actually apply the buzzword of "power" to the situation at hand. how does "the nature of power" cause the culture of classical music?
gotta love the true 1984 being the absurd misinformation about places.
This
100 people is not a very uhhh rigorous cross section of a language or population. I struggle to put much stock in the conclusions here based on the extremely limited data set
hate north korean propaganda time to tune into my japanese imperialist propaganda website