Why do north koreans cry

They were portrayed negatively. Performing Arts. In , the parade replaced live animals with helium balloons designed by puppeteer Tony Sarg. In the year of Dostoevsky's bicentennial, a revisiting of familial relationships in one of his most popular works. Ever since the medium was invented, people have used photography to document loss. Similarly, with the many pictures showing Kim-jong un with his subjects, people often seem to be moved to tears. The outpouring of grief at Kim Jong-il's funeral reinforces Professor Zinda's point.

The theme of South Korean filmmaker Im Kwon-Taek's film "Festival" is the grief around a funeral, as this trailer shows:. Uncertainty about the future of the country had mingled with fear. But Park also said, "Other North Koreans weep because they think they have to do it, or because they feel they are being watched. This post originally appeared on Business Insider Deutschland and has been translated from German.

For you. The men wept as copiously as the women. The histrionics of grief took on a competitive quality. Who could weep the loudest? The mourners were egged on by the TV news, which broadcast hours and hours of people wailing, grown men with tears rolling down their cheeks, banging their heads on trees, sailors banging their heads agains the masts of their ships, pilots weeping in the cockpit, and so on. It's very difficult to know, says Anthony Daniels, a psychiatrist and writer whose pen name is Theodore Dalrymple.

There are huge cultural barriers anyway and then you have to remember this is a regime where everything that isn't forbidden is compulsory, so it's difficult to know what their state of mind really is. No expression of emotion was apparent during that visit he made, he says, except mass hysteria. In a very small way, there have been examples in the West when people have felt compelled to express emotions, says Mr Daniels, author of The Wilder Shores of Marx.

After Princess Diana died, some people felt afraid to dissent from the mass grieving, but there is a huge difference with North Korea on the level of compulsion involved. Who could weep the loudest?