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by TallGuyShort
4588 days ago
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Unable to log in to post this comment, but there is discussion in the comments about how nobody is smiling. One observer points out that although people in the US and Europe rarely smile on streets, nobody was even smiling in the wedding photo. I'd like to point that if you look at wedding photos from a lot of hispanic cultures from more than a few years ago, you won't see many people smiling either. "Say cheese" may be very ingrained in western / European culture, but it's absence is not necessarily a sign of oppression. I'm sure there are plenty of sinister goings-on in North Korea, but I think it's easy to overlook some key cultural differences and see all sorts of signs that aren't there. |
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That reminds me, I read somewhere that people in North Korea tend to smile when uncomfortable.
In an amusement park, at a bowling alley, at dancing events, in the park, and playing in streams, it seemed like people smiled about as much as you would expect them to anywhere else. I encountered some who wouldn't stop smiling.
What always tends to happen with photos and conversations of certain things (e.g. DPRK) people tend to see what they want to see and manifest their own narrative. Tend to.