Comments by "Eric Astier" (@ericastier1646) on "Explained with Dom" channel.

I listened to a 1 hour radio program this morning from a French historian scholar living in Seoul as a liaison journalist who wrote a book titled "Korean miracle". He gave the answers to many of the daunting questions about SK, that this video did not always answer. Here are key elements : - in 1953 at the end of the North/South conflict, South Korea was in a state of total annihilation that was worse than Europe at end of WW1 or WW2 and as a country was on the brink of disappearing. The number of civilian casualties was very high. All the factories had been utterly destroyed by the conflict which was exceptionally brutal and destructive. South Koreans only had the options of either becoming a cohesive disciplined society as one to survive or disappear from the face of the earth as a country. They had no other option than full devotion to Confucean values. -K has always been the most Confucean country in the world, which have long left China. And that means extremely rigid and strict hierarchy, with the superior must take care of those under their wings, no corruption, huge importance of devotion to the group before the self, very disciplined and tenacious. - K people are descended from nomad mercenaries from the steppes of Asia which was a war like people who were not afraid to fight and were tenacious. They have not lost those attributes. -K are an all or nothing people. When they do something it's going to get done and done well. -Unlike the Ch, who are deceptive and use cunning and circular ways to get what they want from each other, Koreans are direct and demand absolute loyalty from their peers as a group. It's a nation that works together without using deception. That makes them very effective unlike the Chinese who are individually looking for skipping and disobeying or deceptive ways to do less and get more. The result is the "made in china" chaos and detachment from moral values and common goals. - Because South Korea could not function without strict adherence to these values that are specific to their country only they cannot allow foreigners (including asians like Chinese) to be naturalized (it's very difficult). -The hard work attitude of Korean pre-dates modern times. Again partly from confucean values where educated people would study very hard for a long time to pass mandarin exams but also from nomad loyalty rules where giving your word meant your life. - Korea and Vietnam are two similar history countries that were invaded by China and became vassal states for centuries but those two nations are the only ones who were able to escape the grips of china and learned the best of their invaders, ignored the rest and did not loose their own culture. - Korea is a country that went through several invasions. The most brutal invasion was Japan that tried to transform it into part of Japan, even Korean names were replaced by Japanese. Because of this , deep in their psyche they cannot trust foreigners to perpetuate their nation. They understand the survival of their race is determined by themselves only. This is the positive meaning of the word : [word that starts with rac and ends with ism that yt bots targets] - In SK, the correct behavior for getting accepted by others in a Korean group is not to assert yourself and not to talk a lot, but blend silently, speak no more than needed, becoming a reliable and conforming part of the group. Then only then can you express your individuality. It is the exact opposite of western team building. - In Confucean principle the higher in the hierarchy must take care of those lower. The Korean miracle has deviated from this where the rich have failed to make the society better for all. This is not a failure of Korean principle but an over influence of western capitalist values of greed, corruption, egocentrism and individuality placed above the society best interests. For the future, SK can correct itself and return to more traditional Confucean values of devotion of Korean to Korean society, not to money and individualism, not liberalism which are destructive of the history, tradition and identity of a nation.
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Yes, it's all related to the financial class thugs in central banks printing currency at will and thus setting wrong goals of how society should function. Very few people understand this.
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I think the usa influence ruined South Korea society values.
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No, at the end of the day being happy in life does not correlate with money as much as you want to think. Except for being very poor many people in 3rd world country who have enough to eat and a shelter can live happier lives than the corporate executive sacrificing his entire personal life. That's a hard fact that those in that system refuse to see.
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PJ i fully understand your perspective, but usa is very sick society as well, arguably more sick in every aspect but it does vary by states. California seems the most sane and that's maybe where you live but many states are just 90% fat people of which easily 70% are morbidly obese with the mentality of self entitlement, conflict mentality, and morals that have been reversed by a sick degenerate media monopoly ruled by a parasitic minority. It's not a country i would want to raise children in, even a poor South American country that is borderline 3rd world would be a healthier place mentally. Because a country is foremost = its people. United statians for the majority are culturally and morally sick, toxic people. Some Korean migrating to USA do not know what they are getting themselves into.
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Excellent video and correct diagnosis. This has been known since at least 2010 but finally someone puts it out in words. You did forget also the healthcare gap and the abandonment of all the part of society that is not hired by these cheabols. They live in poverty in small cities and suburbs and nobody cares some are old people. It's wrong.
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@graduke1 The problem with welfare in any country is that it serves a good purpose when it is correctly used but becomes a hole without a bottom in the budget when the country is full of people who live on that system. In usa virtually the healthcare system is supporting 90% all homo Naledi ancient humanoid descendants which could be said in one word but not on this platform that suppresses comments that express uncomfortable realities. For example you see those Naledi's with handicap placards for a fake handicap that they got from their Naledi doctor screwing up the system. Same in Europe the north africans live from welfare. In Korea there is not that problem since the population is homogenously Korean so there is no excuse for not helping older people.
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@discopa I agree with your counter too. but that prosperity has all the associated usa flaws. In usa people do not have a culture for living a meaningful, moral, socially fulfilling life, instead they assume work is their #1 and only duty in life. That is of course not how life should be lived and the failure is obvious in usa : with the most mentally sick people on earth from any nation and i won't even get into their failure to body hygiene (in which i include the ability to take time to properly feed your body, they have 60-70% morbidly obese people (not just obese). Korea escaped some of those downfall but fell head first in suppressing real social life and putting working life as the only way to live. The result as predictable is mental sickness in the masses looming.
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@discopa No those are not first world problems. You fail to understand that when people are not forced to serve a parasitic financial minority and when they don't have to serve oligarchic states as in SK or USA, then they can easily focus on being productive and produce food is not a high technology or difficult task. The problem is that financial parasites at the kernel of western society and their government lackeys are forcing people to live in a way where people cannot be self sustaining for food. They want you to live in a system that serves them even if the country is in shamble and poverty they will still force people to serve them first by law and not allow agriculture to be financially healthy outside the agro industry by making it impossible to make a living that way. In fact agrarian societies had no problem having plenty of food, but once some self serving financial state is formed with a minority parasite (which tend to be the same people century after century) they start taxing and forcing rule that make agriculture more and more difficult. So that you have to abandon producing food for local communities and migrate to cities and becoming their slaves. So you are totally wrong. The problem is that these society are dictatorships not democracies enforcing a certain way of life and making it impossible to live a life not serving the parasites in place. Hunger is a direct effect of how those parasites force nations to be their slaves and not live in a sustaining way. It all comes down to nepotism, corruption and parasites. That is the main reason countries end up failing in revolts and the west is getting ripe for that as those parasites are getting more and more nasty in the media to protect their stolen status and ties with the financial ponzi scheme they are running.
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@discopa prosperity rates below happiness and a meaningful life. Being rich is a the false goal minority parasites use to enslave the masses.
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I can prove that it is not the government per se, but their vassalization to banksters or bankers who illegitimately print money at will (parasite at the deep state center of society) in all central and federal banks that are the cause of all evil that is driving societies in the world right now. Because that money creation is given for free to bankers who can lend it for an interest, this drives relentless destruction of people's lives. That money is not tied to real ressources it is essential evil that serves the interests of only the financial class which are a parasite nepotistic group with HIGHER power than any governments who are their pawns. This situation must be ended. History says that it is never easy to end the power of a powerful minority group peacefully. It's already obvious that even government do not have the power to reform and regulate those powerful parasites (bank reforms was not implemented after 2009 financial crisis and no bankers went to jail when other industry would have). So human history is telling us, expect a major crisis is needed to uproot that evil, expect something in the caliber of a full blown revolution and civil unrest as seen in past centuries history before that financial evil system is toppled.
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@phurinkazan If you think you can live a comfortable convenient life off grid on a homestead and not cooperate with society which IS the government... you need a reality check.
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@RadicalTek False ! The US is in reality a 3rd world country with a Gucci belt. To be clear, The US is a failed country with a Debt at 130% its GDP. That makes the dollar worthless in a peaceful world. If the USA didn't use it's military threat to force Petroleum producing countries to impose petrol payment in dollar, or criminally kill presidents or leader that decide to replace the dollar with a legitimate currency based on Gold ( Khadafi's exact attempt before the CIA fomented the coup to murder him), then the dollar would reach it's true zero value. There are no true riches in USA, it's simply the FED running a Ponzi scheme with all its parasite bankers shareholders that keep printing illegitimate currency into US banks that keeps that economy afloat. It's in every aspect a rogue and illegitimate state financially. That will ultimately fall to its true 3rd world country value.
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I've studied modern economies and the conclusion i've come to is always the same. There is one group of powerful parasite people with a specific professional activity that are ruining the lives of millions of people. If that group and their activity was banned, made illegal all these lost generation or cyclic economic crashes in the 20th and 21st centuries would not have happened. Essentially the money system we live in is corrupt and serving those that have the (illegitimate) control to print it and those in their sector. That group of parasites are bankers and the activity that is the cause of all evil is printing f.i.a.t. currency that is not backed by natural resources or anything at all for that matter. If you are new to this, you won't understand but remember, bankers. That system is pure corruption and results in the sticky destructive effect of money. In earlier centuries currencies were backed by real resources (except lincoln's greenback currency experiment in the late 19th century) usually gold but any natural resource or resources is possible. This video touches on the problem of infinite debt financing of big corporation which is exactly this, collusion between printing of currency and oligarchies resulting in too big fail, and the power of large existing corporation and the enslavement of the masses to serve a parasite group that uses the fabrication of paper money (now electronic) as a system of encroachment at the core of society like true parasites and forcing the masses into legal slavery. Money is not the problem, money must be backed by reality, by real resources of value. The problem is floating currency, or quantitative easing (a misleading expression they use, to steal the lives of the masses and future generations), bailing out banks, and debt financing. All these are criminal acts perpetrated by a parasite at the core of our societies.
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@super batarang come on stop beating yourself as the minority degenerate media (public radios who aren't staffed with demographically representing the white majority but are full of the "chosen" people that cannot be named and others) wants you to for being white. THEY (the media monopoly) are the cause of poor morals in society and their friends running the banks are parasites who have caused all the harm to society since the 1990's. You've been scapegoated and made to believe white middle class are responsible, not at all, you are a victim of them. Don't let them turn the table on you for their crimes. Pay back time should come in due time.
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no you're dreaming. Corruption is running the world. Government are nothing else people with self ambition, gone are the self disinterested statesmen of the ancient greeks. It's unfortunate.
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