• Clocks [She/They]@lemmy.mlEnglish
      15·
      17 days ago

      fast. I would say you have about the class period to learn the entire language.

      or immediately cry out in pain and pretend to have lost the ability to speak.

  • dazaroo@lemmygrad.ml
    21·
    17 days ago

    head to the barbers just in case the millimetre of growth my hair had over the course of the day exceeds state mandated haircut regulation

  • big_spoon@lemmygrad.ml
    4·
    16 days ago

    asking mom to make me a naengmyeon for lunch and checking my vhs of the animated classic the butterfly and the cock

    • rainpizza@lemmygrad.mlOPM
      11·
      16 days ago

      Not sure how much you have been following this community but the DPRK is actually thriving despite Western criminal sanctions. My advice is to stay tuned in this community and investigate how much the country has changed through any of the Chinese or Russian students/tourists that visit.

      Maybe, that way, you will see why I saw it is lucky to be there.

      • NotMushroomForDebate@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
        4·
        16 days ago

        I think my comment read harsher than I intended.

        I just meant that even though they seem to be doing very well given the circumstances, it’s still a tough position to be in compared to many countries.

        I do follow the community and appreciate the videos and content you share.

    • vyitnoomyr@lemmygrad.ml
      10·
      16 days ago

      I think their strategy in response to isolation, with zero tolerance, has actually borne fruit. It should be studied. The wait was worth it for them, now they are adjacent to the most powerful ally possible.

      Could it have been done better? Ya. Isolation is hard. Read Maldevelopment by Samir Amin.

    • opiumfree@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
      33·
      16 days ago

      exactly… would anybody be lucky to live in russia or cuba right now? i think its a form of orientalism.

      • cfgaussian@lemmygrad.ml
        10·
        16 days ago

        In Russia, yes. Absolutely. It is not at all comparable to Cuba, or even the DPRK. Russia is doing better economically despite sanctions than Europe is right now. Prices are far more affordable, no energy crisis, and they have a growing industry, rather than de-industrialization. And they certainly don’t have shortages of fuel or goods like in Cuba. So yes, i would consider myself lucky if i lived in Russia right now. They have problems but the trajectory is positive.

        The thing with sanctions is that they are becoming less and less impactful for countries that have alternatives. Cuba is in probably the worst position you can be because they are far from the Eurasian core of BRICS and an island, thus easily isolated. But countries like Russia, Iran, and even the DPRK will be less and less affected by sanctions as time goes on because of the alternative economic structures that have been building around the BRICS countries.

        The more that sanctioned countries trade with one another and build alternative financial systems the less that sanctions matter.

        • opiumfree@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
          2·
          16 days ago

          well orientalism also includes russia so the point still stands… ”the prices are far more affordable” is a classic way of how westerners see things and not at all true for people actually living here. the average rent in eastern europe might be 500 dollars but the salaries rarely push 600… i thought u were russian or atleast eastern european and its my first time finding out youre actually a westerner so pls stop. no country in eastern europe is doing better than the west. we had well running socialist systems until the west ruined it and its quite frankly a bit dismissive and offensive.

          • cfgaussian@lemmygrad.ml
            12·
            16 days ago

            I am from Eastern Europe and live in Germany. I have relatives in Eastern Europe and i visit there regularly. I can tell you for a fact that things are not as rosy in the West as you think.

            The Russian economy is growing faster than the German economy. This is an objective, measurable fact. I can tell you from personal experience it is getting harder and harder to find a job even as a university graduate. Germany is losing tens of thousands of jobs every month. Russia has a labor shortage. Germany is deindustrializing. This is not controversial, this is a fact.

            Fuel and energy prices are more affordable in Russia relative to the average income than in Germany. Maybe you don’t realize how bad things have gotten in the West in recent years but it’s not like the 90s or early 2000s anymore.

            The housing situation is worse in Germany than it is in most of Eastern Europe. Far more people own their own home in Eastern Europe. Most people i know in Germany who i went to school with rent. Nobody my age is buying a home. Public transportation is expensive and unreliable. And i only have to walk ten minutes to see half a dozen homeless people sleeping in the train station every night.

            We are a family of two and we have very little left at the end of the month after rent, bills and groceries.

            I’m not saying Russia is some kind of paradise. Obviously the fall of socialism was a catastrophe that they have still not recovered from. Obviously there is a lot of poverty especially in rural areas across Eastern Europe. But the trajectory i see for Russia, like i do for the rest of Asia, is one of positive growth. The EU is stagnating and sinking into deep crisis.

      • amemorablename@lemmygrad.ml
        7·
        16 days ago

        I’m confused, what is orientalism about this notion? I suppose you could argue it’s romanticizing the conditions there, but considering it’s common to view the DPRK as a hellhole due to propaganda, it seems to me the OP is just a form of pushing back on that. rainpizza also has shared more substantive snippets of people living in the DPRK at various points.

      • rainpizza@lemmygrad.mlOPM
        7·
        16 days ago

        Hmmmm, just to have the same context regarding the word that you are using:

        Orientalism is a term used to describe the stereotypical, patronizing, and often exoticized way the Western world perceives and represents the Eastern world (particularly the Middle East and Asia). It creates a false binary where the West is viewed as rational and superior, while the East is viewed as backward and mysterious.

        I think nobody here is doing that as far as I can tell.

        Also, maybe your case is similar to NotMushroomForDebate, so my question to you is the following: Are you sure that you are viewing the DPRK correctly and up to date? Are you viewing the DPRK as a struggling country?