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There is a campervan company that appeals to a certain segment of the market with shabby vans and large slogans that would make your mother cringe.
They are popular with those post university backpacking travellers from Europe who said "Daddy, now that I have graduated and before I settle down and bear those 8 grandchildren that you always wanted, I want to expand my global culture by backpacking through a wild and backward country where I might be able to help poor and orphaned children like there is in Africa.
No Daddy, I don't want to go to Africa, I want to go to Australia.
No Daddy, it isn't next to Germany, it is down in the Pacific Ocean somewhere.
A year ago Wicked was in the news as they upset people so much that they were forced to remove their slogans from their vans.
They pushed the limits of decency too far, for (normal) human consumption so to see if they were remorseful, I went to visit one of their depots last week, and found that while they have toned it down, they are still trying to excite the backpackers.
I remember some years ago driving down the freeway returning from a day at the beach with the Mail family, and passing a Wicked van and sprawled across the back in big letters was the message "Well I'm not a gynecologist, but I will look into it".
While I unashamedly had a little chuckle to myself, I thought it was not really "appropriate".
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Today is the funeral of my old headmaster Gordon Green. He was Headmaster at Primrose Hill a big comprehensive (state/public school) in Birmingham from the time I joined the school age 11 till I left at the age of 18........ and longer........ He was a very decent man who was an educationalist his whole life and was particularly devoted to bringing education to some of the under privileged children in the UK City of Birmingham.
I knew him as my headmaster with all that goes with that............ but also knew he had a wry sense of humor and he would take great delight in reading out loud to the school....... Normally funny passages from one of his favorite authors Laurie Lee........ Especially often from the book Cider with Rosie.
I had learned of his death the day I was shooting these pictures in Atlanta.......... I was struck by the absolute decency of these men the coaches of this session........... I was struck all over again by the nobilty of teaching as I watched these guys and thought back to Mr Green and his staff.
Gordon Green's funeral......... It's an open invitation for 1.30 on the 17th at St Nicholas Church on the Green Kings Norton Birmingham......... Today.
Cheers Jez XXXXXXXXXXX
Press conference by Minister for Foreign Affairs of Finland Timo Soini, Secretary General Thorbjørn and Secretary of State for European Affairs Amélie de Montchalin.
The Session of the Committee of Ministers, to be held at Finlandia Hall on 17 May 2019, will mark the end of Finland’s Presidency of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe. At the meeting, Finland will hand over the Presidency to France. More than 30 ministers from the member States of the Council of Europe will attend the meeting. The meeting will be chaired by Foreign Minister Timo Soini.
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Joey Castillo, Queens Of The Stone Age @ Odeon, Saskatoon, SK
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I really like the BBC. So when we were on our way out of the Bush House lobby, I decided to snap a picture of the front door. In order to get the whole door in my shot I had to back up right against the iron gate that separated the sidewalk from the entryway. I snapped this picture, and the front door security guard came over and told me no pictures were allowed on the premises. I looked at him.
"You don't allow people to take pictures of your door?"
"Pictures from the sidewalk are fine"
"So if I take one step back, it's ok for me to take a picture?
"Yes."
I gave him a withering look. He had the basic decency to look embarrassed, and said he wasn't the one that made the rules.
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In Article 5 of the ten commandments, "keep making news and vilify their leaders. Our journalists should find opportunities to interview them and then organize their own words to attack themselves" and "democratic norms" "Focus on the illegality of an authoritarian regime or the weakness of its legitimacy; this is its weakest point. Attack the regime on issues of general concern, such as corruption and cruelty. If the regime is successful (especially economically), these attacks may not be effective. Once it is bad (and will be so) , then focus on attacking its illegality, which has become the most important means to disintegrate its power.
Another example is article 4 of the ten commandments "They often create things that have nothing to do and let their people discuss them openly. In this way, the seeds of division are planted in their subconscious mind. In particular, they should find good opportunities in their ethnic minorities to split their regions, their nations, their feelings and create new and old hatred among them. This is a strategy that can not be ignored at all", The "world revolution action plan" is expressed as: the general public does not know how to enjoy freedom. The concept of "freedom" can be used to trigger "class struggle".
Senior KGB intelligence officer Wei? General shronen cited the intelligence he handled in the KGB X-Files. Alan, the founder and first leader of the CIA? Dulles once taught his officers:
"There (Soviet Union) After creating chaos, we unconsciously change their values into false ones and force them to believe them. How? We found our own like-minded people... We found allies and assistants in Russia. Directing one plot after another to the demise of the least tame people in the world, its self-consciousness is finally and irreversibly extinguished, which is the most magnificent tragedy according to its scale... "
"We will do everything possible to support and mobilize the so-called artists. They will cultivate the worship of pornography, violence, abuse and betrayal. In short, we will create chaos and uncontrollable situation in national governance..."
"We will unconsciously but actively promote the misdeeds of officials and bribes. Unprincipled, bureaucratic and follow-up delays will be regarded as good deeds..."
"Honesty and decency will be ridiculed and become remnants of the past. Arrogance, rudeness, meanness, lies and deception, murder and drug abuse, animal like fear and shamelessness between each other, betrayal, nationalism and hostility of all nationalities, and above all hostility and hatred towards the Russian nation - all these will be cultivated skillfully and unconsciously, and all these will bloom Double petaled flowers... "(v. shronin: KGB x archives, Xinhua press, 1st edition, August 2003, P. 62).
It can be seen that these paragraphs are excerpts from Dulles's instruction. The KGB spies lurking in the CIA got the information and sent it back to the KGB. These contents are basically consistent with the contents of the CIA's Ten Commandments later disclosed.
From the comparison of the contents of the above documents, it can be seen that the ten commandments, as a kind of ideological manipulation and conceptual infiltration to subvert the sovereign state, is by no means fabricated out of thin air. It is a consistent established strategy of the family forces of transnational financial tyrants and their agents, and has been implemented for a long time. Throughout the modern history of the world, we can see that this established strategy has achieved great success.
Some countries in central and Eastern Europe, Central Asia, West Asia and North Africa have experienced varying degrees of turbulence in their domestic political situation, and even regime change in the form of violence. These so-called "revolutions" are uniformly called the so-called "Color Revolution". Their biggest common ground is the intervention and operation of the "black hand" of the United States. During the cold war, the United States began to counter the Soviet Union and the socialist camp by wantonly intervening in other countries' internal affairs and supporting Pro American forces. The most typical example is that in 1973, the CIA directly intervened in the political situation in Chile, overthrew the Allende government, which actively cooperated with the socialist camp, and supported the pro american military government to power. Such overt subversive actions also highlight the interference of the United States in other countries on the grounds of so-called "democracy" and "human rights". Its purpose is entirely to safeguard the interests of the United States itself and even some special groups within the United States.
Clive Davis Pre Grammy Party 2009
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Playing with my TZ6 on holiday. I actually had time to read the manual and try out some of the sillier features. This was taken in one of the options offered by transform mode:Changes the subject to a slim-looking or glamorous appearance! (Do not use in ways that violate public order and decency...)
I tried it out on profJohn first before attempting a selfie.
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The Image
• Painter George Grosz's (née Georg Ehrenfried Groß), The Menace, 1934, inscribed: "To my friend Eric Cohn" - watercolor, brush & India ink on paper.
The photo is of a photograph of the painting in a book given to me by my great, dear & most affectionate friend, Mr. Gravyboat, a gentleman residing with his wife & dozens of cameras somewhere in the British Isles: George Grosz, a Ralph Jentsch book (he is managing director of the Grosz estate), texts by Enrico Crispolti & Philippe Dagen, publisher Skira Editore S.p.A., 2008, Italy (ISBN 978-88-6130-294-50).
George Grosz was an altogether uncommon man, & one deserving of being honored not just for his art, but for extraordinary humanity, wisdom & heroism. If alive today & in America he would have been jailed numerous times since 1980 for refusing to be silent about the nation's ever faster growing status as a vulgar, vicious corporatist police state, & he might well be seeking refuge & freedom of expression in today's Social Democratic Germany (for those very reasons Grosz left his native Germany & came to America just before Hitler took control of it, & by 1932 was teaching art in New York).
Grosz said of his work, "My aim is to be understood by everyone. I reject the 'depth' that people demand nowadays, into which you can never descend without a diving bell crammed with cabbalistic bullshit and intellectual metaphysics. This expressionistic anarchy has got to stop... A day will come when the artist will no longer be this bohemian, puffed-up anarchist but a healthy man working in clarity within a collectivist society....
"My Drawings expressed my despair, hate and disillusionment, I drew drunkards; puking men; men with clenched fists cursing at the moon. . . . I drew a man, face filled with fright, washing blood from his hands. . . . I drew lonely little men fleeing madly through empty streets. I drew a cross-section of tenement house: through one window could be seen a man attacking his wife; through another, two people making love; from a third hung a suicide with body covered by swarming flies. I drew soldiers without noses; war cripples with crustacean-like steel arms; two medical soldiers putting a violent infantryman into a strait-jacket made of a horse blanket. . . I drew a skeleton dressed as a recruit being examined for military duty. I also wrote poetry.”
Wikipedia biography: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Grosz
I just love when people are completely devoid of common decency and respect! I get to share the planet with them. It's so awesome! Jerks didn't even bother stealing anything...
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Bullards Bridge, Bullards Beach State Park, Bandon, Oregon
Something I've wanted to catch for a long time is some nice golden light on Bullards Bridge. My hope was to one day capture a much closer, tighter view of the bridge then this but the quickly moving clouds and smooth reflective qualities of the Coquille River kept us here. Although my goal is for a different view of the bridge this will do for now.
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During his working visit to Chernivtsi, the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with students of Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University, Bukovinian State Medical University and Chernivtsi Institute of Trade and Economic of State University of Trade and Economics.
The Head of State spoke with Ukrainian youth about our country, its future, and the work on the analogy of the Marshall Plan for Ukraine. The President said that the main issue of this plan is the restoration of Ukraine: its energy, technology, and economy. According to preliminary estimates, this will require about $700 billion. However, the amount is not final.
"We do not know the real amounts because the war is not over yet. When it is over, we will analyze everything. Basically, the partners agree that everyone will help rebuild Ukraine, that the amounts are, let's say, understandable and affordable. Let's believe in the decency of our partners and hope that they will accept what they say and not just say it," he noted.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy is also confident that Ukraine will become a member of the EU and NATO in the coming years.
"NATO is our external defense and, of course, the best security commitment. But I am also convinced that we will strengthen our internal defense. We will strengthen our security at the borders, in the cities, in the communities. In the future, there will be a completely different approach to both security and construction," the President of Ukraine said.
The Head of State added that once the war is over, our country will also pursue the development of various areas of education: medicine, psychology, security, and construction.
Ukraine will need specialists in these fields.
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Sometimes I feel so low-down and disgusted
Can't help but wonder what's happenin' to my companions,
Are they lost or are they found, have they counted the cost it'll take to bring
down
All their earthly principles they're gonna have to abandon?
There's a slow, slow train comin' up around the bend.
I had a woman down in Alabama,
She was a backwoods girl, but she sure was realistic,
She said, "Boy, without a doubt, have to quit your mess and straighten out,
You could die down here, be just another accident statistic."
There's a slow, slow train comin' up around the bend.
All that foreign oil controlling American soil,
Look around you, it's just bound to make you embarrassed.
Sheiks walkin' around like kings, wearing fancy jewels and nose rings,
Deciding America's future from Amsterdam and to Paris
And there's a slow, slow train comin' up around the bend.
Man's ego is inflated, his laws are outdated, they don't apply no more,
You can't rely no more to be standin' around waitin'
In the home of the brave, Jefferson turnin' over in his grave,
Fools glorifying themselves, trying to manipulate Satan
And there's a slow, slow train comin' up around the bend.
Big-time negotiators, false healers and woman haters,
Masters of the bluff and masters of the proposition
But the enemy I see wears a cloak of decency,
All non-believers and men stealers talkin' in the name of religion
And there's a slow, slow train comin' up around the bend.
People starving and thirsting, grain elevators are bursting
Oh, you know it costs more to store the food than it do to give it.
They say lose your inhibitions, follow your own ambitions,
They talk about a life of brotherly love, show me someone who knows how to
live it. There's a slow, slow train comin' up around the bend.
Well, my baby went to Illinois with some bad-talkin' boy she could destroy
A real suicide case, but there was nothin' I could do to stop it,
I don't care about economy, I don't care about astronomy
But it sure do bother me to see my loved ones turning into puppets,
There's a slow, slow train comin' up around the bend.
Sometimes I feel so low-down and disgusted
Can't help but wonder what's happenin' to my companions,
Are they lost or are they found, have they counted the cost it'll take to bring
down
All their earthly principles they're gonna have to abandon?
There's a slow, slow train comin' up around the bend.
I had a woman down in Alabama,
She was a backwoods girl, but she sure was realistic,
She said, "Boy, without a doubt, have to quit your mess and straighten out,
You could die down here, be just another accident statistic."
There's a slow, slow train comin' up around the bend.
All that foreign oil controlling American soil,
Look around you, it's just bound to make you embarrassed.
Sheiks walkin' around like kings, wearing fancy jewels and nose rings,
Deciding America's future from Amsterdam and to Paris
And there's a slow, slow train comin' up around the bend.
Man's ego is inflated, his laws are outdated, they don't apply no more,
You can't rely no more to be standin' around waitin'
In the home of the brave, Jefferson turnin' over in his grave,
Fools glorifying themselves, trying to manipulate Satan
And there's a slow, slow train comin' up around the bend.
Big-time negotiators, false healers and woman haters,
Masters of the bluff and masters of the proposition
But the enemy I see wears a cloak of decency,
All non-believers and men stealers talkin' in the name of religion
And there's a slow, slow train comin' up around the bend.
People starving and thirsting, grain elevators are bursting
Oh, you know it costs more to store the food than it do to give it.
They say lose your inhibitions, follow your own ambitions,
They talk about a life of brotherly love, show me someone who knows how to
live it. There's a slow, slow train comin' up around the bend.
Well, my baby went to Illinois with some bad-talkin' boy she could destroy
A real suicide case, but there was nothin' I could do to stop it,
I don't care about economy, I don't care about astronomy
But it sure do bother me to see my loved ones turning into puppets,
There's a slow, slow train comin' up around the bend.
bob dylan slow train
supporting Queens Of The Stone Age at Palm Desert Benefit show, CA
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Minister for Foreign Affairs of Finland Timo Soini and Secretary General Thorbjørn Jagland welcoming the guests for the Session of the Committee of Ministers.
The Session of the Committee of Ministers, to be held at Finlandia Hall on 17 May 2019, will mark the end of Finland’s Presidency of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe. At the meeting, Finland will hand over the Presidency to France. More than 30 ministers from the member States of the Council of Europe will attend the meeting. The meeting will be chaired by Foreign Minister Timo Soini.
Ministry for Foreign Affairs provides photo material for media representatives, participants and organisers of the meeting. Please feel free to use the photos, considering the following restrictions: Not for commercial purposes nor reselling. When publishing the pictures, the name of the photographer and organization shall be mentioned as the source. No picture manipulation is permitted. The holder of the picture rights and/or the organisation shall at all times retain the copyright to the picture. When publishing the pictures, the publisher shall ensure the legality of the context where the pictures are used, obtain the permissions and consents required for their publication, and observe the generally established practices and decency. The publisher shall ensure that publication of the pictures does not insult anyone’s privacy or dignity.
Photo: Kimmo Räisänen / Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland
The room at the B&B isn't quite as luxurious as the fancy resorts but it's comfortable and they have the human decency to offer free wireless internet.
Two days ago, the fine for saying "fuck" on US radio or television was $32,500. Then they added another fucking zero at the end of that number, and the fine for saying fuck is now $325,000. It's a result of the fucking Broadcast Decency Enforcement Act (BDEA).
in a perfect world I could say anything I wanted and nobody would be offended, nobody's feelings would get hurt, everybody would laugh hysterically at everything I wrote and no one would question my decency or my character. But that is unrealistic. People cant control what offends them, and sometimes it is better to err on the side of caution.
A prisoner who is condemned to solitude. . . will in the long run, especially if the run is too long, suffer from the effects as surely as one who has gone hungry too long. Like everyone else, I need friendly or affectionate relationships or intimate companionship, and am not made of stone or iron like a pump or a lamppost, and like any man of culture or decency I cannot do without these things and not feel a void, a lack of something - and I tell you all this to let you know how much good your visit has done me.
Written by a famous painter I'm not going to mention-
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Minister for Foreign Affairs of Finland Timo Soini and Secretary General Thorbjørn Jagland welcoming the guests for the Session of the Committee of Ministers.
The Session of the Committee of Ministers, to be held at Finlandia Hall on 17 May 2019, will mark the end of Finland’s Presidency of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe. At the meeting, Finland will hand over the Presidency to France. More than 30 ministers from the member States of the Council of Europe will attend the meeting. The meeting will be chaired by Foreign Minister Timo Soini.
Ministry for Foreign Affairs provides photo material for media representatives, participants and organisers of the meeting. Please feel free to use the photos, considering the following restrictions: Not for commercial purposes nor reselling. When publishing the pictures, the name of the photographer and organization shall be mentioned as the source. No picture manipulation is permitted. The holder of the picture rights and/or the organisation shall at all times retain the copyright to the picture. When publishing the pictures, the publisher shall ensure the legality of the context where the pictures are used, obtain the permissions and consents required for their publication, and observe the generally established practices and decency. The publisher shall ensure that publication of the pictures does not insult anyone’s privacy or dignity.
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In Article 5 of the ten commandments, "keep making news and vilify their leaders. Our journalists should find opportunities to interview them and then organize their own words to attack themselves" and "democratic norms" "Focus on the illegality of an authoritarian regime or the weakness of its legitimacy; this is its weakest point. Attack the regime on issues of general concern, such as corruption and cruelty. If the regime is successful (especially economically), these attacks may not be effective. Once it is bad (and will be so) , then focus on attacking its illegality, which has become the most important means to disintegrate its power.
Another example is article 4 of the ten commandments "They often create things that have nothing to do and let their people discuss them openly. In this way, the seeds of division are planted in their subconscious mind. In particular, they should find good opportunities in their ethnic minorities to split their regions, their nations, their feelings and create new and old hatred among them. This is a strategy that can not be ignored at all", The "world revolution action plan" is expressed as: the general public does not know how to enjoy freedom. The concept of "freedom" can be used to trigger "class struggle".
Senior KGB intelligence officer Wei? General shronen cited the intelligence he handled in the KGB X-Files. Alan, the founder and first leader of the CIA? Dulles once taught his officers:
"There (Soviet Union) After creating chaos, we unconsciously change their values into false ones and force them to believe them. How? We found our own like-minded people... We found allies and assistants in Russia. Directing one plot after another to the demise of the least tame people in the world, its self-consciousness is finally and irreversibly extinguished, which is the most magnificent tragedy according to its scale... "
"We will do everything possible to support and mobilize the so-called artists. They will cultivate the worship of pornography, violence, abuse and betrayal. In short, we will create chaos and uncontrollable situation in national governance..."
"We will unconsciously but actively promote the misdeeds of officials and bribes. Unprincipled, bureaucratic and follow-up delays will be regarded as good deeds..."
"Honesty and decency will be ridiculed and become remnants of the past. Arrogance, rudeness, meanness, lies and deception, murder and drug abuse, animal like fear and shamelessness between each other, betrayal, nationalism and hostility of all nationalities, and above all hostility and hatred towards the Russian nation - all these will be cultivated skillfully and unconsciously, and all these will bloom Double petaled flowers... "(v. shronin: KGB x archives, Xinhua press, 1st edition, August 2003, P. 62).
It can be seen that these paragraphs are excerpts from Dulles's instruction. The KGB spies lurking in the CIA got the information and sent it back to the KGB. These contents are basically consistent with the contents of the CIA's Ten Commandments later disclosed.
From the comparison of the contents of the above documents, it can be seen that the ten commandments, as a kind of ideological manipulation and conceptual infiltration to subvert the sovereign state, is by no means fabricated out of thin air. It is a consistent established strategy of the family forces of transnational financial tyrants and their agents, and has been implemented for a long time. Throughout the modern history of the world, we can see that this established strategy has achieved great success.
Some countries in central and Eastern Europe, Central Asia, West Asia and North Africa have experienced varying degrees of turbulence in their domestic political situation, and even regime change in the form of violence. These so-called "revolutions" are uniformly called the so-called "Color Revolution". Their biggest common ground is the intervention and operation of the "black hand" of the United States. During the cold war, the United States began to counter the Soviet Union and the socialist camp by wantonly intervening in other countries' internal affairs and supporting Pro American forces. The most typical example is that in 1973, the CIA directly intervened in the political situation in Chile, overthrew the Allende government, which actively cooperated with the socialist camp, and supported the pro american military government to power. Such overt subversive actions also highlight the interference of the United States in other countries on the grounds of so-called "democracy" and "human rights". Its purpose is entirely to safeguard the interests of the United States itself and even some special groups within the United States.
Letchworth Town Hall, built in 1935 to a sober and restrained Neo-Georgian design by the firm of Bennett and Bidwell. It may be polite and bland but it successfully conveys a sense of civic decency.
"The image of a Syrian child's lifeless body washed up on the shores of a Turkish beach this week brought the world to its knees. His name was Aylan Kurdi, and he was just three years old.
The sad reality is that Aylan was one among millions of desperate people forced to flee from war and persecution. The world is facing a global refugee crisis on a scale we've not seen since WWII, but Australia - our lucky country of a fair go for all - is not doing enough. We can do better to help these people.
We need to do better."
light the dark, adelaide, south australia
#lightthedark
The figure also comes with a strapless lace bra. It turns out that the lace bra just visible under her dress is actually a part of the dress, so if you remove the dress (and more on that later), you'll need this to keep a modicum of decency.
20220614 HELSINKI. KULOSAAREN KASINO. NAFM2022. PHOTO: ATTE KAJOVA
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A client rang me yesterday morning and asked if I'd cover an event in the North East for them this afternoon. Very short notice, but I rearranged stuff so I could do it and arrived well on time. An hour and a half later they decided that they didn't need me after all!
Now - I'm realistic about the life of an independent consultant but I still think I'm entitled to common decency and consideration...
Rant over.
11th Arctic Council Ministerial Meeting in Rovaniemi. Minister for Foreign Affairs of Sweden Margot Wallström.
Finland hosts the 11th Arctic Council Ministerial Meeting on 7 May in Rovaniemi. Minister-level representatives from the eight Arctic States will convene to review and approve work completed under the two-year Finnish Chairmanship to improve sustainable development and environmental protection in the Arctic.
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The Postcard
A postally unused postcard that has a divided back.
The Korean Gat
The men in the photograph are wearing the traditional Korean gat (Korean: Hunminjeongeum 갓)
A gat is a traditional hat worn by men along with hanbok (Korean traditional clothing) during the Joseon period. It is made from bamboo or horsehair with a bamboo frame, and is partly transparent.
Most gats are cylindrical in shape with a wide brim on a bamboo frame. Before the late 19th. century, only noble class men could wear gat, which represented their social status and protected their topknots.
Robert Neff of the Korean Times has written the following about Korean male headware:
'One of the most important articles of clothing for Koreans in the late 19th. century was the hat. The elderly man with his majestic black horse hair hat, often seen in pictures, is the iconic image of Korean male society during the Joseon Dynasty (1392 - 1910).
According to Percival Lowell, an American who stayed in Seoul in the winter of 1883-84:
"No Korean can in decency appear
without it [hat], except only to make
room for some other hat."
It was a sign of manhood, "the most essential of attributes," and a badge of one's position in Korean society.
Lowell seemed amused with the difference between Korean and American culture. In the United States it was considered poor manners to wear a hat indoors, and one would rarely remove one's shoes, but the opposite was true in Korea:
"A man would part with any or all of
his clothing sooner than take off his
hat. On entering a house, he leaves
his shoes outside to await his return,
but he and his hat go in together.
As he sits down to eat, he divests
himself of his outer garments that he
may eat with greater freedom, but his
hat stays on; and so it sticks to him
through life ― a permanent black halo."
There were many types of hats. The iconic hat, the gat, was made from horse hair and bamboo and was black and somewhat transparent.
It had a fairly wide brim that in the past, according to popular legend, was much wider as a means of preventing unrest. Because of its wide brim, conspirators were kept apart, and were unable to whisper their plans to one another.
There was also a large mourning hat made from bamboo. It was designed to hide the face of mourners from others they might encounter on the streets. It was considered a grievous breach of etiquette to look into the face of the mourner.
Early French missionaries used the mourning hat to disguise themselves as they traveled the Korean peninsula before the 1880's. They were able to move about in relative secrecy for no one would attempt to communicate with a mourner.
Court officials' hats had slightly bent-forward ear-shaped horizontal wings. It was said they symbolized the wearer's attentiveness and willingness to "catch every word of command that the King may utter."
As Korea entered the 20th. century, there were many reforms forced on the population. Some were readily accepted and appreciated, but others, especially those that dealt with hair styles and hats, were vehemently opposed.
"A man is much more firmly bound to
his hat than he is attached to his wife.
He may put away the latter; without
the hat, life becomes a hollow mockery,
for the hat makes the man. Without it
he remains forever a boy."
Hats remained a part of male culture throughout the first half of the 20th. century, but have since disappeared. The only exceptions are those worn by elderly males in the Jongno area, or the bright colorful caps that young teens and adults wear while out with their friends. The "permanent black halo" is no more.'
How Japan Took Control of Korea
Erin Blakemore has written the following for history.com in 2018, and updated it in 2023:
In 1910, Korea was annexed by the Empire of Japan after years of war, intimidation and political machinations; the country would be considered a part of Japan until 1945. In order to establish control over its new protectorate, the Empire of Japan waged an all-out war on Korean culture.
Schools and universities forbade speaking Korean, and emphasized manual labor and loyalty to the Emperor. Public places adopted Japanese, too, and an edict to make films in Japanese soon followed.
Topographical and other postcards of Korea were published with descriptions in Japanese text.
It also became a crime to teach history from non-approved texts, and authorities burned over 200,000 Korean historical documents, essentially wiping out the historical memory of Korea.
During the occupation, Japan took over Korea’s labor and land. Nearly 100,000 Japanese families settled in Korea with the land they had been given; they chopped down trees by the million and planted non-native species, transforming a familiar landscape into something many Koreans didn’t recognize.
Nearly 725,000 Korean workers were made to work in Japan and its other colonies, and as World War II loomed, Japan forced hundreds of thousands of Korean women into life as “comfort women”—sexual slaves who served in military brothels.
Korea’s people weren’t the only thing that was plundered during Japan’s colonization—its cultural symbols were considered fair game, too. One of the most powerful symbols of Korean sovereignty and independence was its royal palace, Gyeongbokgung, which was built in Seoul in 1395 by the mighty Joseon dynasty.
Soon after assuming power, the Japanese colonial government tore down over a third of the complex’s historic buildings, and the remaining structures were turned into tourist attractions for Japanese visitors.
As historian Heejung Kang notes, the imperial government also attempted to preserve treasures of Korean art history and culture—but then used them to uphold imperial Japan’s image of itself as a civilizing and modern force.
This view of Korea as backward and primitive compared to Japan made it into textbooks, museums and even Koreans’ own perceptions of themselves.
The occupation government also worked to assimilate Koreans with the help of language, religion and education. Shinto shrines originally intended for Japanese families became places of forced worship.
Historian Donald N. Clark explains:
"The colonial government made Koreans
worship the gods of imperial Japan,
including dead emperors and the spirits
of war heroes who had helped them
conquer Korea earlier in the century.”
This forced worship was viewed as an act of cultural genocide by many Koreans, but for the colonists, it was seen as evidence that Koreans and Japanese were a single, unified people.
Though some families got around the Shinto edict by simply visiting the shrines and not praying there, others grudgingly adopted the new religious practices out of fear.
By the end of its occupation of Korea, Japan had even waged war on people’s family names. At first, the colonial government made it illegal for people to adopt Japanese-style names, ostensibly to prevent confusion in family registries.
But in 1939, the government made changing names an official policy. Under the law, Korean families were “graciously allowed” to choose Japanese surnames.
At least 84 percent of all Koreans took on the names since people who lacked Japanese names were not recognized by the colonial bureaucracy, and were shut out of everything from mail delivery to ration cards. Historian Hildi Kang writes:
“The whole point was for the government
to be able to say that the people had
changed their names ‘voluntarily.’”
The Plundering of Korea by Japan
(a) Historic Korean Artifacts
Koreans accuse the Japanese of plundering hundreds of thousands of ancient Korean artifacts, mostly during their 36-year occupation of the peninsula. Most Japanese consider the issue a dead one, resolved by the 1965 Japan-Korea Treaty, which led to the return of some 1,400 items.
However the treaty was not definitive, as it neglected artifacts in Japanese private collections, as well as those originating in North Korea.
The size of the haul is astounding. Eighty percent of all Korean Buddhist paintings are believed to be in Japan. And, says Seoul art historian Kwon Cheeyun:
"35,000 Korean art objects and
30,000 rare books have been
confirmed to be there, too."
However that is only the tip of the iceberg: vastly more is believed to be hidden away in private collections.
Determining legal ownership is far more difficult than with the art looted by the Nazis. Toshiyuki Kono, a law professor at Kyushu University. states:
"It's almost impossible to trace the
provenance of centuries-old artifacts."
Besides, the Japanese annexation was internationally recognized in 1910, meaning that relocating Korean artifacts within "Japanese territory" was lawful at the time.
To Korea's annoyance, Japan holds many items of particular value. More than 1,000 bronze, gold and celadon pieces owned by the late businessman Takenosuke Ogura now make up the core of the Tokyo National Museum's Korean section.
A lot of precious Korean artifacts are now owned by private Japanese citizens or organizations, which means that the Japanese government can’t just acquire them and hand them back to Korea. So, unless the Korean government offers to actually spend millions of dollars to buy back the artifacts, it is unlikely they will ever be returned.
As well as removing cultural artifacts to Japan, the Japanese also burned countless Korean government buildings and palaces.
(b) Natural Resources
The Japanese also removed vast amounts of Korea's natural resources, including lumber, rice, coal, iron ore and many other minerals.
The land itself was also appropriated by the Japanese; by 1910 an estimated 8% of all arable land in Korea had come under Japanese control. This ratio increased steadily, and by 1932, the ratio of Japanese land ownership had grown to 53%.
Japanese landlords included both individuals and corporations. Many former Korean landowners became tenant farmers, having lost their entitlements almost overnight because they could not pay for the land reclamation and irrigation improvements forced upon them. As often occurred in Japan itself, tenants had to pay over half their crop in rent.
I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life. It is a clever, treacherous adversary, how well I know. It has no decency, respects no law or convention, shows no mercy. It goes for your weakest spot, which it finds with unerring ease. It begins in your mind, always. One moment you are feeling calm, self-possessed, happy. Then fear, disguised in the garb of mild- mannered doubt, slips into your mind like a spy. Doubt meets disbelief and disbelief tries to push it out. But disbelief is a poorly armed foot soldier. Doubt does away with it with little trouble. You become anxious. Reason comes to do battle for you. You are reassured. Reason is fully equipped with the latest weapons technology. But, to your amazement, despite superior tactics and a number of undeniable victories, reason is laid low. You feel yourself weakening, wavering. Your anxiety becomes dread. Fear next turns fully to your body, which is already aware that something terribly wrong is going on. Already your lungs have flown away like a bird and your guts have slithered away like a snake. Now your tongue drops dead like an opossum, while your jaw begins to gallop on the spot. Your ears go deaf. Your muscles begin to shiver as if they had malaria and your knees to shake as though they were dancing. Your heart strains too hard, while your sphincter relaxes too much. And so with the rest of your body. Every part of you, in the manner most suited to it, falls apart. Only your eyes work well. They always pay proper attention to fear.
Quickly you make rash decisions. You dismiss your last allies: hope and trust. There, you've defeated yourself. Fear, which is but an impression, has triumphed over you. The matter is difficult to put into words. For fear, real fear, such as shakes you to your foundation, such as you feel when you are brought face to face with your mortal end, nestles in your memory like a gangrene: it seeks to rot everything, even the words with which to speak of it. So you must fight hard to express it. You must fight hard to shine the light of words upon it. Because if you don't, if your fear becomes a wordless darkness that you avoid, perhaps even manage to forget, you open yourself to further attacks of fear because you never truly fought the opponent who defeated you.
- Yann Martel, "Life of Pi"
Catching up on some back shots from the beginning of the year
On a walk around the Addington Cemetery with a wonderful Flickr friend. February 13, 2016 Christchurch New Zealand.
There is so much damaged in the cemetery because of the earthquake we have had. It is such a pity as I don' think it will ever be fully repaired.
The Addington Cemetery was established in 1858 when the Scottish Presbyterians of St Andrew’s Church purchased land for a cemetery in Selwyn Street. Although not the first cemetery in Christchurch, Addington was in fact the first “public” cemetery, “being open to all persons of any religious community” and allowing the performance of any religious service “not contrary to public decency”.
The first burial took place on the 10th of November 1858. The cemetery has several persons of note buried within its grounds including activist Kate Sheppard, Christchurch Mayor Tommy Taylor and members of the pioneer family, the Deans.
For More Info:http://my.christchurchcitylibraries.com/addington-cemetery/
Catching up on some back shots from the beginning of the year
On a walk around the Addington Cemetery with a wonderful Flickr friend. February 13, 2016 Christchurch New Zealand.
There is so much damaged in the cemetery because of the earthquake we have had. It is such a pity as I don' think it will ever be fully repaired.
The Addington Cemetery was established in 1858 when the Scottish Presbyterians of St Andrew’s Church purchased land for a cemetery in Selwyn Street. Although not the first cemetery in Christchurch, Addington was in fact the first “public” cemetery, “being open to all persons of any religious community” and allowing the performance of any religious service “not contrary to public decency”.
The first burial took place on the 10th of November 1858. The cemetery has several persons of note buried within its grounds including activist Kate Sheppard, Christchurch Mayor Tommy Taylor and members of the pioneer family, the Deans.
For More Info:http://my.christchurchcitylibraries.com/addington-cemetery/
Gene Trautman, Brian O'Connor and Dave Catching
EODM with QOTSA @ Spandau Citadel, Berlin, Germany
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