The Korean Religious Heritage Korea's religious heritage has contributed to the teaching of the Unification Church. Since it first appeared on Korean soil and was nourished by the Korean philosophy of life, the new movement was naturally influenced to some extent by its environment. ... Furthermore, shamanism emphasized Korea's unique role in history. ... One should therefore not overlook the religious dimension of Korean nationalism. ... Monks and nuns became a normal feature of Korean society. ...

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United States plays a crucial role for war-devastated Korea in the 1950s. ... Even nationalism played a crucial role in Korea's economic development. It functioned as popular ideology of popular mobilization and legitimacy during the hardships and social disruption of rapid economic growth (Eckert et al., 1990, p. 406). ... The Vietnam War provided economic opportunity at the right time. ... Another was the construction boom in the Middle East, which came just as the Vietnam War winding down (Eckert et al., 1990, p. 411). ...

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The U.S. entered into the war on South Korea's side and this action brought China into the war. ... During the war, the north pushed deep into South Korea but the south managed to push them out and up into North Korea. ... North Korea Korea was told during WWII that when Japan was defeated, they would be independent. ... During the Korean War, North Korea may have used nuclear weapons on the south, if they had them. ... During the Korean War, the U.S. fought on the side of South Korea and China was on North Korea's side. ...

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In answering the question "In what ways was the concept of American Exceptionalism evident in the Cold War during the years 1947-1961?" I intend to start by looking at the root of the idea and how its history manages to evoke passionate responses of American Nationalism in the transition period between the end of World War One and the Cold War. ... I shall then move onto the Cold War itself, identifying the use of exceptionalism in three key areas; warfare (with specific focus on the Korean War), an ideological persuasion of weak nations (particularly the vulnerable west Germany) and...

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Rather an incorrect study of the Vietnam situation: wrongly identifying it with the previous Korean dilemma and the overall attitudes of indiscriminate fear of any communist movement, regardless of circumstances, prevailed over American foreign policy and helped begin an ill-advised escalation of American involvement into the Vietnamese civil war. ... Because American policy prioritized anti-communism over sympathy for nationalism, this created a dangerously erroneous view that the conflict was simply another incident of communist aggression that had to be contained at all costs, like Korea. ...

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In light of these historical developments, I will examine the social biography of the Korean-Protestant people. ... " The rally that took place in Pagoda Park lighted the fuse of nationalism of the people who subsequently staged numerous demonstrations elsewhere. ... Regarding figures in incarceration, out of 19,525 prisoners, the Korean-Protestant people numbered 3,373 and the Chondogoyans 2,297. ... Out of 16,000,000 Koreans, only 20,000 (1.3-1.5%) were the Korean-Protestant people. ... The Korean term minjung refers to people who are poor, oppressed, and deprived (Kim, p. 251; Kwon, 2010, p...

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Within the past decade we have sent American military personnel to Somalia to protect United Nations" troops conducting a humanitarian operation to relieve the famine resulting from the civil war in that Country. ... Within the past few weeks the United States has diplomatically confronted North Korea after North Korea admitted that it has nuclear capabilities and has no intentions of disbanding the same. ... Resulting would be dividing American foreign relations into cycles of "relatively pacific feeling," followed by "rising bellicosity and war," followed by "postwar nationalism," and then...

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People should consider each other's emotions during interactions as we are a "continent" that is a combination of many small "islands." ... Asia countries such as China, Japan and Korea have a rich collective history over about four thousands years, and the feeling of nationalism is shared among the Asians. On the other side, Individualism is one of the most significant parts of American culture due to the War for Independence, which advocated the idea of independent thinking. ...

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The origins of the Cold War can be traced to conclusion of World War II and the disagreements between the USSR and the Western Powers. ... The communist ideology and the western reaction to it had not changed by the end of the World War II. ... Events before, and after the war, as well as conflicting ideologies and the U.S. military involvement in Japan as well as the prevailing military reality resulted in the inability of the Great Powers to solve those conflicts and led to the Cold War. ... Western allies during the First World War sent in arms and troops to support the White army to de...

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British soldiers were sent in during the 1846 food riots. ... During the same year, an Irish physician by the name of Dr. ... During the Napoleonic Wars, the French isolated Great Britain; the English took advantage of Ireland's resources. ... Wars and rebellions were commonplace in seventeenth century Ireland. ... After the Civil War came the industrialization of the United States. ...

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