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America Vs Korea

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The showdown between two leading countries, who can come out on top? In a epic battle of cultures we will put America and Korea in the ring “mano a mano". Only one country can be the best, and with all bets off stakes are high. With these Countries being on opposite sides of the world, the similarities are few and the differences many. During this essay we will look at a few categories to base our judging on culture, ethics, philosophy, and underwear regulations? With no further a do, let the battle for the ultimate respect begin.
In America respect is often thought of as something that has to be earned. People “gain” respect by doing something significant that people agree is the right thing todo. This respect doesn’t mean a lot in America, …show more content…

When we look at modern-day culture in America, things have changed over the years. A man walking down the street with sagging jeans flashing his underwear loudly is a common sight, along with women showing excessive cleavage. But girls legs are still a controversial thing, especially in cases of short skirts or dresses. Quite the opposite is true for Korea, girls wear skirts so short they take towels with them in public so they can sit down with some decency. Crazy I know! But what might be more crazy is, cleavage and stomach is highly inappropriate and almost never seen, even women showing their shoulder can be inappropriate. In the modern day, Americans are relatively okay with woman show these body parts, to that point, America does very little to sensor content. Besides no nudity and swearing on TV, there aren’t many rules, and censorship is often done on case by case situations. Like when a book gets banned, usually it didn’t “break any rules”, it was overall considered to be unsafe content. This differs greatly from Korea’s method of censorship. Korea’s TV programs are subject to many rules from the Korea Communications Standards Commission, a organization that stands to protect Koreans from unsafe content. KSCSC bans a wide verity of content from being displayed, as Simon and Martina (2015) said, smoking, nudity, and all products that aren’t payed placement are just some of the things censored. And on “hardcore” rap stations offensive lyrics are censored, along with their tattoos and boxers being blurred out. Funny! While all of this does have a strong influence on the behaviors of each country’s residents, in which ways is a whole other topic. Not to mention the debate of what is free speech. In either case, America and Korea aren’t so similar with how censorship

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