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+ | '''Yeonmi Park''' (born 1993 in Hyesan, [[North Korea]]<ref name=":0">https://youtu.be/czWexu9wk-Y?t=11 Cited July 19, 2021</ref>) is a North Korean defector, a human rights activist and a YouTuber. She escaped the country at the age of 13<ref name=":0" />. At the end of May 2021 he was interviewed by [[Jordan Peterson]]. In that interview she told that an university professor from Columbia University ([[United States]]) had told her that letting a man hold a door for her is "giving in to their [the man's] overpowering of you." When she argued against this, attributing that kind of behaviour to "kindness" or "decency," the professor argued that Yeonmi was "brainwashed from North Korea." In the four years at the university she learned to "censor herself all over again."<ref>https://youtu.be/8yqa-SdJtT4?t=6255 104:15 – name of university; 105:37 – story about holding doors; 106:14 – learning to censor oneself</ref> |
== External Links == |
== External Links == |
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*[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpQu57KgT7gOoLCAu3FFQsA Youtube] |
*[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpQu57KgT7gOoLCAu3FFQsA Youtube] |
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*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yqa-SdJtT4 Interview with Jordan Peterson] |
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yqa-SdJtT4 Interview with Jordan Peterson] |
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| + | *[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLzTo-y8Ef0 TED talk] |
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== References == |
== References == |
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Revision as of 19:51, 19 July 2021
Yeonmi Park (born 1993 in Hyesan, North Korea[1]) is a North Korean defector, a human rights activist and a YouTuber. She escaped the country at the age of 13[1]. At the end of May 2021 he was interviewed by Jordan Peterson. In that interview she told that an university professor from Columbia University (United States) had told her that letting a man hold a door for her is "giving in to their [the man's] overpowering of you." When she argued against this, attributing that kind of behaviour to "kindness" or "decency," the professor argued that Yeonmi was "brainwashed from North Korea." In the four years at the university she learned to "censor herself all over again."[2]
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 https://youtu.be/czWexu9wk-Y?t=11 Cited July 19, 2021
- ↑ https://youtu.be/8yqa-SdJtT4?t=6255 104:15 – name of university; 105:37 – story about holding doors; 106:14 – learning to censor oneself