Korean people, you all are very good at protesting. It's almost like a professionalization of protests. I don't think I've ever encountered a nation that enjoyed protesting more than the nation of Korea.

Holding those people accountable, um, that we have influence on, that we elect, um, is something that I think we really do have power on.

If we all organize together, we are the ones that really need to step in and make sure that whatever the result of the election might be, it is respected.

We've lost control over our values. We in Korea no longer value the things that we used to value. We're losing this sense of community.

Students and young people today no longer respect their elders, no longer respect their teachers, no longer respect their communities in the way they used to.

Really? Okay, all right, I get that. I see something happening. Step outside of your culture, look at what it's like in many other places.

I'll talk to you about not respecting. It's a very different world when you see a life, a culture, a people from the lens of other cultures and peoples and nations.

And I think, wow, this is really a fascinating thing how people and I couldn't tell what was really going on.

It's too coordinated. It's like a dance. I couldn't figure it out. People sat down and then they stand up and they hold the sign and they take the sign down, very different culture.

So I listen to Koreans say, oh, but we have these problems because we have all these protests.

And I say, no, no, no, hang on. These people are angry. This is a protest. It's a very different thing.

Let's get through this, let's make it happen. Okay, I think I want to hear what the these students who are volunteering today, I have to say, all right.

So can I, can we bring, can the three volunteers come up? Actually, bring your phones with you. So here's what's up. This is the title of the class, is My Truth.

Okay, y'all, My Truth. All right, go to the next slide and this is a question, this is a starting question you all are going to get asked.

All right, so what you, what I want you to do is, I don't want you to, I want you to come up with your answer before you hear other people's answers.

Okay, so what if you could go through the door over there, take your phone so you can take notes and write out just basically they sketch a few bullet points about what, how you would answer that question.

Okay, we good? So you can just go hang out in the hallway.

Okay, I'm going to tell you what my truth is right now at this stage, like it, it changes all the time, but before I even finish telling you what my truth is, my truth will change, but you're going to get what it is when I first start talking.

Okay, uh, and that is that there are no clear answers to anything and truth is always somewhere in between polar opposites.

It always is, doesn't matter. So we see that it's part of life and the only reason it stopped is because we stepped in, the government stepped in, really at the demand of the people and said, hey, we're going to pass these laws and we're going to make this really impossible or illegal for these discriminatory actions to take place against these people.

So we passed laws and then sometimes those didn't work really well and we passed more laws and so there's always a tendency to try to fix problems in the world by passing laws and making rules and to regulate people's behavior.

But the problem is you can only regulate people's behavior so much because every law is and every rule and every procedure that people have to follow, it's just onerous to them.

It's just stuff that just gets in the way of people just doing the best they can and living the best way they can and just taking responsibility for themselves.

So you have this thing going on, do you have to have regulation? You have to have regulation. Okay, but you can't have too much regulation because if you have too much regulation then everybody's just walking around being like robots and trying to and following these rules and you curtail innovation and you curtail people's behavior.

And this is of course what's on the table right now for the next four years because the current administration is saying, look, we have far too many regulations and we need to cut back on these regulations.

They just see regulations in other places.

So this is what government is and this is why people say we want a small government as we can possibly have in order to deregulate, to do not have too many rules that are guiding our behaviors, to allow us as individuals to live the best lives we can possibly live and be happy and be free and take responsibility for ourselves.

So you don't want lots and lots of regulation. Is that cool? Does that make sense? All you business people, you get this right because you're this is you talk about this in your business classes, but sociology people and everybody else should think about it as well.

Okay, so for example, we could regulate all sorts of things about race and inequality and we've tried to do that and you know, people push back against some of it because they say, wait, hang on, that doesn't make sense.

What are you, what are you doing? You're telling people they have to, they have to act in certain ways.

You're demanding that they do. All right, so here, let me go to the next slide. But you got a problem, right?

You got two things that are happening. You regulate people and you got all these rules and they say, why do we have to do it in this way?

Like, what what's the point of that? Because you told us we have to do this and so we have to do it this way.

On the other side, we have, wait, why why isn't that regulated? Like, why are people allowed to get away with that? Like, I was on an airplane two weeks a week ago, week and a half ago, and they just changed my seat.

I bought the seat to sit in this seat right here, and I get to the to the desk and the air the airline says, ah, you're no longer in that seat, we changed you to another seat.

I'm like, how is that possible? How are you doing that? Like, you can't do that. And they're like, well, we can do that. So then we say the airline shouldn't be allowed to do that, or they leave us sit out on the tarmac for 5 hours and you start demanding the airline shouldn't let people force people to sit on a plane for 5 hours.

Like, how is that legal? How is that possible? Well, it's possible because there's no rule against them doing that.

Or they now we just passed the rule, but it's possible they can change my seat because they can. And so then people demand regulations.

How is it possible that United Healthcare, the healthcare company that the C of the CEO who just got assassinated, how can somebody need an operation and their doctors say they need an operation and they have insurance to pay for that operation and all the paperwork is submitted to the insurance company, and the insurance company looks at the paperwork and says, denied.

And then you say, damn, that should be illegal.

That's what regulations are. That's why we have regulations. That's why we have it. You see, that's the point.

You can't live without regulations, but also you can't live with too many regulations. You see that? So you got both things. It's like, oh yeah, if we don't have regulations, people will just run wild.

You got to have some regulations. So here, oh, but wait a minute, but that's a lot of regulation.

So then you're over here and you say, ah, yeah, you need some regulation, but you don't need too much of it. Have as little as you possibly can.

You see how that is the balance? Everything is about balance. Everything is about balance. You got to have a little bit of gun control, my friends, because if you didn't have a little bit of gun control, some of you all would be walking into this room with loaded AR-15s all across your back, because you just would be, because you just would want to do that.

And so we pass a regulation that says, nah, you're not going to bring AR-15s into 100 Thomas.

And you know what? You're going to bring AR-15s in 100 Thomas, and one of you knuckleheads is going to drop the gun and you're not going to have the safety on, and it's going to go off because one of you is going to be a knucklehead and do that.

And so we're going to have a regulation and that's how we go.

But now, now, well, regulation, but how much regulation do we need? Do we need how much? Where do we stop? You see, this is the point, understand who you are not in order to understand who you are.

Well, I say the same thing to Americans and one of the reasons I talk about Korea is because in places like Korea, so it's not, you know, everything is a little bit different, but I talk about Korea is because I want to show other people, it's like, hey, what you see as reality isn't the only reality in the world.

Look at this country of 51 million people over here, look what they're managing to do.

So then what are the values of Korea? What are the characteristics of Korea?

What do you live with that you don't even know? You know, fish are the last species to understand what water is. Fish do not know what water is.

They live in water, they don't see it, they don't feel it, it means nothing to them. That's how culture is, that's how our values are for all of us.

So here would be a quote, someone in your culture might say, I need to improve this issue or this thing, whatever it is, so that I can be a contributing member of my groups and my communities.

Like, I need to improve this so that I can contribute to my people in my community.

So I got to fix this, that you need to take ownership of this problem.

Now you are going to blame lots of people, you're going to blame the government, you're going to blame this, you're going to blame, but you are always going to also blame yourselves or what can I do to help make this problem no longer be a problem?

That's just built into thinking, characteristics, and values. What can I do to help make this problem no longer be a problem? What can I do because the problem it's not just somebody else's, it's me.

This is a community here, you know, and see you're lucky that you're a relatively small nation, you're a homogeneous nation, you know, you are all Koreans here.

There's one language fundamentally. I mean now increasingly there are many different languages that are spoken, but fundamentally you're lucky that you're living among people who have ancestors from the Korean Peninsula, this peninsula that is surrounded by water on three sides.

Uh, Marcus, come on up, man. Um, first off, introduce yourself, man. I'm Marcus. Um, I'm from South Korea and I'm a data science major that, you know, I'm going to disagree with and tell you why you're wrong, but um, you choose your own destiny.

What's that? You choose your own destiny. You choose your own destiny. Yeah, yeah. How, how so, man? Um, no one is to blame for anything that happens to you in life except you.

Okay, so now you know I'm going to disagree with you on that. What do you think I'm gonna say?

Um, I feel like you're going to say there's a lot of people, um, that you'll meet and you are not the only factor that determines everything that happens to you in life.

Yeah, dude, even you, what are you doing here? How'd you get here from Korea? What are you doing here?

Um, so my parents don't like the Korean education system. Yeah, where like everyone's like studying, they don't work out, um, they lack social skills like in general.

Yeah, that's why, um, my mom wanted me to study here. Yeah, wait, so your parents said one of the issues is if you, if you go, did you take the Suneung exam, the CSA?

No. All right, okay, that's cool uh so if you go abroad to go to school, you're going to learn differently, you're just going to learn to be in the world in a different way.

And then you can come back to Korea and you'll just, you'll have these different perspectives and different ways of seeing life, you'll have a different personality.

Yeah, okay, so you didn't choose that destiny, your parents chose it for you. I mean, I sort of agree with my parents, so dude, you agree with your parents because they're your parents.

You're right, you're right. Well, I feel like, um, that's the mindset that you should have in your life, okay, that's a different story to like succeed.

Okay, so the mindset that you think is important for success is the one in which you take responsibility.

Yeah, you see yourself as being responsible for your destiny. Yeah, so how does that, okay, how does that work out in your life?

Basically, um, if you blame everything on others, then you can't have personal growth. That's how I feel like. So if you blame, if you blame other things, but Koreans are pretty good at taking responsibility for themselves in general.

I think that's debatable. All right, in, in what way?

Um, I mean, I don't, hang on, let me do this. It's, you're, you're here, it's like this way or this way, right?

So you would think in the United States because we're such an individualistic culture, you think that we would be really over the top in terms of taking responsibility for ourselves, but I like look around here, man, it just seems like people are always blaming other people and other things.

And so you think it's, how do you think the US compares to Korea in that way um so this is my so I've been here for like 4 months so I'm not sure about that yeah but I could clearly spot differences between South Korea and here yeah like what I feel like here there's like a lot of rhythm and it's really diverse okay in terms of like race and sexuality it's really diverse yeah and thinking whereas in Korea there's more it's like you're more following the thinking you're you're you're more aware of what other people around you are thinking yeah so let me ask you another question just to are you so you haven't been in the military yet no so can you just explain to the class how this works because there are certain countries in the world where everybody has to join the military and Korea is one of them so who joins um so basically everyone so every man that's eligible for the military should go to the military before the age of like 40 I think yeah yeah who's who's who's ineligible um maybe mentally ill people or where someone's like physically incapable of doing so yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah and so everyone joins do you and so you're going to join yeah when will you join after my first year I'm going back to Korea um going to do my military service and then come back here for my second year so in May you go back and join yeah do you have do you have anything else that you feel like is true um the Earth is WR I don't know all right okay I got you man all right all right that's cool so you got to the place where you said all right it's better we will grow more and we'll be better prepared the more we take responsibility for our actions and ourselves right and the so the more we do that, the more we're really ready to engage in the world, the better people we will be.

Yeah, yeah. All right, I will, I'll buy that.

I think that's true, but I don't think it changes our destiny. The destiny is the destiny because, dude, you might be tonight, you might decide I'm going to go to the library to study, and you make that decision, and you slip on some wet cement or something, and fall and hit your head and get an aneurysm and die.

Like, it doesn't matter, like you don't know what your destiny is.

Yeah, that's a valid point. Yeah, well, here's the thing, I'm going to leave you with this idea. So every decision you make, like every doorway you walk through has positive consequences and negative consequences.

There are good things that are going to happen and bad things that are happening.

Doesn't matter what the doorway is. So if it's a doorway that you really want to walk through, like you know you land, you graduate from Penn State and you land the best possible job, or you join the military in Korea and you get the best possible position, down that path are bad things and good things.

And if the worst thing happens to you, like for example, you're on your way to the library tonight and you fall and you get a concussion and you spend three days in the hospital, the con, they're going to be positive consequences from that and negative consequences.

And at the end of your life, you're going to look back and you're going to be able to see all the positive and negative consequences that came from positive and negative things.

And if you get that, if you all you got to do is understand that and that's how you live a good life, man.

Now, but what about having a concussion is positive because positive things are going to happen? You're going to be in the hospital and you're going to meet somebody or and maybe it's going to be like, uh, you're the person that becomes the best friend for the rest of your life or any number or you decide I can't do my data science major anymore.

And because you major in something else, you find God and because you find God, you become like a minister and because you became a minister, you did something you saved someone's life or God knows what.

I have no idea. It's a it's endless. You just it just rolls like that.

So the more you accept, bro, you you get this right, you get it, you see that the more you accept everything that happens to you and the more you accept that if if I choose Logan, this or this doesn't matter which one I choose, positive things will happen and negative things will happen, positive things will happen and negative things will happen.

Doesn't matter. As long as you accept that, dude, life is awesome, man, life is awesome.

Yeah, you get that right, you see that you're like you're like that's the Buddha. This is what Christians this is what Christ was saying, okay, this is what the Buddha is saying, this is what this is what they everybody say, that's what it is.

Okay, so it's not about that idea of taking responsibility, it's about a Daya, the idea of accepting. Yeah, what do you want to join in the mid?

You want to be in the army or the Marines or what do you want to be? I just want to join the Army and get over with it yeah were you in the army bro you were in the army yeah dude G I'll tell you what it was all about man all right all right man dude thanks all right T come here come here man wait hang on just in time for this guy really fast come here here dude see that have a seat dude this guy all right so I guess the question would be what is the uh what is my truth no no no yeah that's right what's your truth what's the one thing you know to be true dude and by the way hang on they they applauded you so they they really really want to hear okay well um I don't think the only thing I definitely know for sure that is true is that there's nothing that can be fully true because do you think there going to be like I know that's a very ambiguous and philosophical answer but uh one of the things that I I always think back to is so during one of my Wilding conversation uh I had one of uh one of the people that were participating was was saying wait wait wait hang on hang on go ahead was saying I don't intend to vote because I don't know enough okay uh I didn't really say it back then but with hindsight I there is the response I want to give it now then do get educated try to learn as I've said there's no full truth but there is as close as you can get to it no there no not as close as you right you can get a little bit closer to truth right okay but you know what the more you learn the closer you get to truth the more you see that truth it goes is like sanding your fingers that you there is no truth exactly so wait, so then the closer you don't get to it, the further you get from truth, but that's she gets that, but that's the thing.

It's a never ending mind, but that's what makes it fun. Yeah.

Dude, yeah, exactly. Yeah, Korean characteristics and values. Think about values. Koreans saying, well, that's a problem too to us because we have a different way of seeing the world.

I'm like, okay, that's fine, but understand and then you can learn something about Korea by learning what you are not, but they do.

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