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Social Interaction At North Korea

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Sociology has always been the systematic study of social interaction at a variety of levels. For instance North Korea, the culture, politics, education, religion, health and medicine vary differently here in the United States. Escape From Camp 14 and The Orphan’s Master Son are two of the books that have provided me with a large amount of information on North Korea. North Korea has a population of 24.9 million people. The founder of North Korea Kim Il Sung, created the country’s policy of juche also knows as self-reliance. This has made North Korea where they rely souly on themselves. There are very few people in North Korea that are allowed to own motor vehicles. If you are in the government and military officials it is legal for you to own or operate a vehicle. Marajuana, in North Korea is not considered a drug and it recommended to many citizens. People in North Korea are not allowed to have access to anything in the outside world, such as TV, cable, Internet, and cellphones. Culture is learned or shared behaviors, beliefs, values, and material objects that characterize a particular group or society. Escape From Camp 14 shows the culture that Shin lives in is one of which someone in the US today would not have to experience. Shin grew up in a prison camp due to what his family that came before him had done. He lived every day of his life working and starving to death, Believing that there was no other way to life than how he was living. In the book Shin says,”…the

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