Culminating Activity 5

Find, watch and comment on at least one video relevant to AF, 1984 or DOAS frfrom another site.



I found this video from the Youtube.This is adorable propaganda in North Korea because you can see everything is controlled by government here, and also can see plenty of Soviet and Chinese cultural and political influence. Kim Jung Il is the one who has the same power as O'Brien who is creating strongest power by own government. Every citizens has to follow his rule in the North Korea and must obey him. For those, the North Korea is totalitarian country on modern today that I consider.

Cultural Revolution in China in 1966- 1976





Mao is watching you!

 After read the book 1984, I feel something happened before in my country. Maybe that is not my real experience, but I heard from my grandparents before and learned from the books too. That was called the Cultural Revolution which was lanched by Chinese Communist Party chairman Mao Zedong. During 1966 to 1976, those ten years is his last decade in power to renew the spirit of the Chinese Revolution. He wanted to develop along the  lines of  the Soviet model and concerned about his own place in history, Mao threw China's cities into turmoil in a monumental effort to reverse historic rocesses underway.

 He is a great and intelligent person. He liberated China and established the Repulic of China in 1949. In his life, the Cultural Revolution is the only mistake he made, but it is a huge mistake which makes China go back at least 20 years.



The Red Guards is made by Mao. They  splintered into zealous rival factions, each purporting to be the true representive of Maoist thought. The Red Guards can grab people to ask them questions about Mao or people have to remember and recite the Quotations from Chairman Mao Zedong that called the Little Red Book by the weatern, if they can't answer, maybe would be arrested or physically abused. Mao also encouraged the Red Guards to attack all troditional value and "bourgeois" things and to test party officials by publicly criticizing them. During that time he shut down school. That means everybody didn't have free thought and you must remember also only remember Mao's book. That is the real brain wash and thought wash.



Red Guards = Thought Police



Mao encouraged youth to go back to the countryside. We called Down to the countryside movement. My mom told me at that time who handed in the test empty and got the zero that would feel very proud, so that's the reason why that generations didn't learn in the school.

I just give some examples I heard here. It's real like 1984, the totalitarian regime.

 For now nobody talk about those things any more. Maybe they forget or they are indifference. I still think most people still remember, but they just don't want to recall or even right now they have freedom thought and freedom speech, if they really talk about like Dixie Chicks, nobody knows what gonna happen.