First of all, thanks for giving me this chance to deliver my ideas. Actually the show I watched is relevant to two very serious issues I want to talk about recently. These two issues are full of my life recently. What a occasion that this show combines these two issues. Ok, now I will explain some more deeply. Due to these issues are more or less about the politics, so it's really really serious.
The first issue I want to say is the war between the North Korea and South Korea. I believe that one of the most important factor of President Obama's Asian trip is about the cooperation with South Korea on the war game. I think everybody is aware that the aim of President Obama is not the North Korea. It is China. As a Chinese, I know that North Korea is like China's little brother. Thus, if something bad happened, like the war, Chinese government never abandon this little brother. I think this relationship with North Korea pushes China into a trap of dilemma. Well, I want to talk about North Korea.
In my dictionary, North Korea means fool. I have no offense to North Korean. The fool I am talking about is to aim to North Korean government. Why North Korea is a poor country in the world? Why this poor country wants the nuclear weapon all day long? It's all the government's fault. After the war between China & North Korea against America in the 1950s, North Korea had totally become a poor city(please forgive my language. I am a foreigner, so that I can't find very specific word to describ). From that time, North Korea started to require the research about the nuclear weapon. Let's assume, what happens if North Korean government use all the money to build the country instead of researching nuclear weapon? Somebody will say researching nuclear weapon be a way to build the country. It will increase the power of military. Well, I want to ask, when the citizens are in hunger and cold, what's the use of military? And what's the use of the nuclear weapon? The citizens are hungry and cold, but they are forced by the government to battle with America. I really sympathize the North Korea citizens. The citizens become the sacrifice of the fool goverment. Now, North Korea has the war with South Korea. Due to the history relationship, China HAS to give a help. Actually Chinese government don't want to get involved with the issued between North and South Korea. China persuaded both of them for several times. It doesn't work. So, North Korea drag China into this dirty water. It leads to the relationship between China and America go down(of course the going-down relationship between China and America is because of lots of other issues like the economy). North Korea government in order to build their great face, they put their citizens and other country into the hell. Thus, the worst thing of citizens is that they follow with foolish government. The worse thing is that citizens from different countries become enemies due to the government battle. I feel really sad about it. Why not we become friends and talk about something peacefully? Why we must use war? The sacrifice of war is only the citizens. I know the politics is very complex, and sometimes the government has no choice. But we should make effort at least, shouldn't me?
The second issue, I want to satirize the Chinese government itself. As we can see in the show, the host can use lots of joke to talk about the leader of a country. He can express his idea totally. But in China, the artist or people work in media, cannot say any single word bad to the current government. Here is an example.
There is an artist named GUO Degang. He is the most popular Xiangsheng artist in China. Xiangsheng is kinda like the comedy talk show in America. In his show, he satirizes the bad phenomenon in China. It includes some dark side of the government. Because he is the only one who dares to express the dark side of the society and the government, he is supported by the audience so much. But his show shakes the authority and image of the government. Therefore, Chinese government and Chinese media prohibits every show of his, and cancel his DVD or CD in stores. By the way, Chinese official media is just the dog of the Chinese government which means Chinese media is dark and rotten. The Chinese media will follow the 'Spirit' of government which means that they will report everything the government likes and prohibits everything the government hats, even if they will distort the truth. I like GUO Degang personally, it's because not only he dares to talk about the dark side of the society, but also his ability of Xiangsheng is great. I have to say a truth to make it clear. Most of the Xiangsheng artists pay more attention to making money and lick the government's shoes, so that they don't like to learn ability on Xiangsheng. Xiangsheng, as a tradition art in China, needs lots of learning to be great. A genius has to learn at least 10 years to be okay, not great.
Now, Chinese citizens start to support GUO Degang more and more. The aim of Chinese media is to wash the citizens' brain to make the citizens fool and bottomed-down. In this case, the citizens never disagree with the government so that the government can do whatever they want. But the government never thought that more and more Chinese study abroad and the Internet technology is so advanced now. The citizens will know the truth someday.
Well, I feel that I can't calm down now. I really want to fuck every foolish government. Due to these government, the innocent citizens become sad.
If this blog is unclear, please let me know in the comment. In this blog, my gun is just to the North Korea government and Chinese govenment. No offense to anything else.
Thanks, Haoyi, for your thoughts on the relationship(s) among government, media, North Korea, China, and the U.S. I can certainly use more clarification on the issues and especially the subterfuges by the media. For the assignments for the class, however, you need to relate the videos to the chapter in the book we've assigned, and to the particular questions we highlight. I'm looking forward to your responses! And don't worry about English as your second (or third!) language--you express yourself very well.
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