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Jun 10

The Incompleteness of History Medium Post #2 — HIEA 115 SP22

Hadden Cutler

Hello Hadden,

Hello Hadden, I really enjoy reading your post and get inspired by your unique interpretations of prof. Matsumura's questions. I like that you mentioned that we should respect and understand the vast differences between individuals during the pandemic so that we do not need to record or recognize this period of history. I have never thought that not-recorded history could mean respecting people's different life experiences in the past. And I also learned from your point that our lives are not 100% recordable, but the most important thing is to respect the recordable and unrecordable parts of our lives.

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Hello Hadden,

I really enjoy reading your post and get inspired by your unique interpretations of prof. Matsumura's questions. I like that you mentioned that we should respect and understand the vast differences between individuals during the pandemic so that we do not need to record or recognize this period of history. I have never thought that not-recorded history could mean respecting people's different life experiences in the past. And I also learned from your point that our lives are not 100% recordable, but the most important thing is to respect the recordable and unrecordable parts of our lives.

Thank you so much for your excellent analysis and interpretation!

Jun 10

HIEA Medium Journal 2

Camden Rhee

Hello Camden!

Hello Camden! I totally agree with your idea that it is impossible to accurately capture what happened in the past two years. I wrote a similar idea in my post that the history we could record is always relatively objective and accurate but never completely accurate. I also really like how you explain historians could gather the similarities of a group of people to represent "a group" instead of "a individual person" in history. I think this is also a very good method to keep history's comparative objectivity to record the relatively conclusive history.

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Hello Camden!

I totally agree with your idea that it is impossible to accurately capture what happened in the past two years. I wrote a similar idea in my post that the history we could record is always relatively objective and accurate but never completely accurate.

I also really like how you explain historians could gather the similarities of a group of people to represent "a group" instead of "a individual person" in history. I think this is also a very good method to keep history's comparative objectivity to record the relatively conclusive history.

Overall, thank you for your excellent post, I did learn a lot from it!

May 20

History’s Comparative Objectivity

Before, history was the image with opposite black and white. When studying history in middle school and high school, I have never doubted history textbooks’ veracity. I simply took down notes from the history teacher’s explanations and memorized specific historical events’ times and significance. There are always some great figures…

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Apr 29

HIEA Medium Journal 1

Camden Rhee

Hi Camden!

Hi Camden! I like how you structure this journal by first introducing how Japan influenced Korea and Taiwai seperately and make a conclusion by comparing them in the end. And I'm inspired by how you include lecture 3 about Taiwan women's changes in your response. I also like how you write that "a colony that has a strong civil system, better schooling system, and a more educated workforce will bring more value and resources to Japan in the long term". Japan's reformation over its colonies' family structures, laws and education benifited Japan in the low term by providing the colonial society a peaceful and regulated enviroment to develop economics.

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Apr 20

Korean Women’s Upheld Rights Within Households in Colonial Korea

Background Information: During the period Japan gradually established colonial rules in Taiwan and Korea in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Japanese colonizers tried to enact new laws and legal regimes to regulate the colonies. In Sunyun Lim’s “Women On the Loose,” Lim introduced the new structure of households…

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Apr 19

Week 1: Nationalism’s Exclusiveness

Is exclusion (whether it takes sexist, ableist, racist, or other forms) necessary to nationalism according to Anderson and McClintock? How do their definitions of the nation help you make sense of your own national community? According to Anderson, nationalism is exclusive because the imagined nation is limited both in its…

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Jun 2, 2021

Week 9 Discussion

The trailer to “Coming to you, Minu” reminds us of the important role that music plays in fights for migrant justice. Why do you think this is the case? …

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Jun 1, 2021

Week 8 Discussion

How does Kwon’s exploration of “the work of waiting” impact the way that we think about immigration policy in a specific country? What kind of map of global migration patterns would be adequate to express the range of labors that people engage in to support one migrant worker? In Kwon’s…

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Jun 1, 2021

Week 7 Discussion

During the Battle of Okinawa, many Okinawan women lost their husbands who die in this battle, which we can define as Okinawan women’s postwar “trauma”. As a consequence, those women mainly relied on their fields and agricultural production to survive. However, United States’ military base construction on Okinawa island occupied…

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May 28, 2021

Week 6 Discussion

What do you think are some of the impacts of being labeled as spies, or national traitors by the state and military for internal relations within Okinawan society? …

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