A Sociological Analysis Of 'Inside North Korea'

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Before reading this article I had no real understanding of what the southern border of America was like, I knew that it has a lot of military and there are fences and such but I was unaware of just how bad it is. With my never having been out of the country my only mental picture of borders is from a documentary we watched in my sociology class in my junior year of high school, National Geographic’s “Inside North Korea” hosted by Lisa Ling (2006). This image is of North Korean soldiers standing facing one another with Ling’s voice over saying “Each side shows its best face…but only one side is worried that their soldiers might want to defect across the divide.” However, after reading Seth M. Holms depiction of his experience crossing the border a new picture has appeared. A very well devised and structured argument presented by him is shown to have strong evidence, and structure and provided an argument that is effective.
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The experiences that he experienced on his journey to cross the border with his companions makes for an indestructible foundation for his argument about border control to come later on. Some of the strongest moment I noticed in the field notes portion were “Answering my question about why people were going to the US to work, Macario reflected the common experience described to me in San Miguel, ‘there is no option left for us’”. (p. 156). Along with “The younger nun explains to me that every weekend they pray for the border crossers because of the mortal risks involved” (p.156). These two quotes alone depict a life in which this is a required thing to live and because they cannot save the people crossing the border the burden of having to do so, the people remaining home (i.e. the nuns) do what they can in their power to protect

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