Discussion on Week 10: Knowledge and Political Economy of East Asia

So Here I am back to this boring job of writing blog postings. Just kidding. I love writing blogposts. I just do not have the time to do it. I really love writing the postings. Seriously I do. Believe me. >.<

So here I am today, I will be writing on the Knowledge and Political Economy of East Asia. There are 4 readings that were posted up on our system. To be honest, I did not read any of those things. So today's posting will be more on what I thought and what are my opinions on stuff.

First off, answering the questions. I seriously do hope that I can.

1. What do you think if the European Industry Revolution did not occur?

Well, from what I think, it would not affect too much on the day now. For what reason I said this? Think back from week 1 of this lessons. Try to think back to what I've came through for the whole of the semester. For this whole semester, I've taken two subjects that are deeply connected together, which is this, Eastern Civilization and another one TITAS. So in both subject, we talk so deeply about Eastern Civilization. And after so many weeks of processing, I think the definition of Civilization will change from what I've proposed during the first blog posting. Let me get back to the posting and give you a screenshot.

So I've wrote a 2 paragraph long words to describe what Civilization means during that time of the time. But now, I think my perspective got changed a little. Civilization does need improvement from the things that we have. So yeah. If the European Industrial Revolution does not occur, we will still have what we have today. Because of IMPROVING. Improving is something every one in this world are doing.

Take China for example. China was once a so successful civilization, a so so successful nation that everyone wants to have a relation with. Of course, it got worse and the Republic of China took over. But that's not the point. As we know, China invented the 4 most greatest things, which are, Paper, Printing Technology, Gunpowder and Compass. The thing about China, during that time, is that they do not improve. Taking Gunpowder as example. Although they invented it and well, used it for as firecrackers during their time, but they did not improve it to be better. And so, people outside get to know about this and they used the technology and made it their own.

Till the Last China Dynasty, Ching Dynasty, they were invaded by the Europeans and they mess up terribly in defending themselves. What I wanted to say here is that China is not stupid. They just did not know of the importance of improving until they fall and now, they are one of the biggest country in the world. If they would have improved, now people would be wearing Traditional Ching Dynasty clothes with all the embroideries and patterns and large headpiece on their head instead of a plain sexy dress. Just kidding.

So to conclude the answer, I think that the evolution of the technology, political views, knowledge and economy will still be going on if the European Industry Revolution did not happen. People of every places are improving.

2. Based on your discussion, are you in favour of Capitalism to be your nation's economical system?

Well, let's not get into any conclusions yet before we know clearly of what Capitalism is.

1. Capitalism is an economic system and a mode of production in which trade, industries, and the means of production are largely or entirely privately owned and operated for profit. Central characteristics of capitalism include private property, capital accumulation, wage labour and, in many models, competitive markets.

(Copied from wikipedia)

So for me personally, parts of me will agree to this and part of me won't. Why do I say this is because everything have a good side and a bad side. For Why I agree is that it helps in building the nation's economics. It is like the country tax you and they earn from what we earn. Yeah. It sounds so nice. People could be uber rich and uber poor here. And that is the bad thing. When people are uber rich, some they don't tend to give back to the people. Eh. Where you think your business come from? Where do you think your money come from? Your money come from the society that buys your products. I think that is why Malaysian Government make all the company to do charity work for the society twice in a year. So yeah. Funny right? 

People might agree on this and might disagree on this but I think that the economics in Malaysia to better be like China. Their gap of rich and poor people are not that widely separated. So I think it is much better in so many ways. We have equal amount of money for all people. But another problem is that Malaysia still does not have the ability to do so. Let's not discuss it here on why. I might be caught under ISA. So no thanks. 

I think that is my post for this discussion. The next post I think will be up in 2 hours. For now, Cheers

Cheerios,

YiXin :)