A semi-related article and some questions

First off, check Ariana Eunjung Cha's article in today's Wall Street Journal about Chinese 'success' books teaching people how to get rich 'the Jewish way'. In an interesting parallel to the Monnara series, those Chinese books were written to capitalize on a boom in the 'success book' market in China. Monnara's last three volumes about the U.S. were written to take advantage of the currently surging Korean fad of educational comic books. The books basically spring from the same source of misinformation, for example, the article says

Some works incorrectly refer to J.P. Morgan (an influential Episcopalian leader) and John D. Rockefeller (a devout Baptist) as Jewish businessmen.

All that is coming up in my next batch of translation, which I will hopefully get up tomorrow morning. I've translated up to page 43 but it's not easy to find time to sit and type it up. The funny thing is they just take opposite tacts. To the Chinese books, Jewish success is inspiring, and to Mr. Rhie, it's a wicked conspiracy. Interesting, I wonder if it has anything to do with national identity.


Also, I received an email from a friend of mine who has never been to Korea, and he had some questions I thought it would be helpful to answer here, so here goes.

Q: What is a social studies comic book?
A: It's a comic book that both kids and parents think is educational, and that kids read in order to gain knowledge about the world. Education is important to Koreans, so it's considered much better to read a book that is marginally educational than one that is 100% entertainment. Rest assured that this is big business, typical Korean kids have walls covered with these books, they buy entire series at a time. They tend to market themselves as more fun and less educational than Monnara does, it's on the educational end of the education-fun spectrum.

Q: Is anitisemitism common in Korea?
A: Perhaps the best answer I can come up with is that it's not uncommon to hear antisemitic and anti-Israel statements in Korea. Does that mean there is a lot of antisemitism in Korea? I don't know, there aren't a lot of Semites in Korea, nor is there much history between Korea and Jews.
To me, when I hear a Korean espouse an antisemitic view, it reminds me of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan, when some people said "Those intractable Pashtun warriors will never be defeated. Their country has not been successfully invaded in thousands of years." and I wanted to ask them whether they learned about Afghanistan off the back of the Risk board game box or whether Colmes said it to Hannity the night before. In other words, anything resembling antisemitism in Korea is both hearsay and designed to fit a Korean view of the world, rather than being born of experience or arrived at through empirically obtained evidence.

Q: Is this propaganda or satirical?
A: Anyone who has lived in Korea likely laughed at this question as I did. Not satirical.

Q: If it is propaganda, what is it's purpose?
A: To make Korean children dislike/fear/suspect Jews.

Any more questions? Any better answers than mine? I'll bet there's plenty of both.

Chapter 8, pages 235-239 (wherein the Rothschilds establish Israel and creates J.P. Morgan while Hollywood Jews and orientalists brainwash the East)

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p235)
The meeting of all the nations who won the Napoleonic War [The Congress of
Vienna] opened in 1814. This Congress of Vienna was really the Jews' victory
feast, as represented by Rothschild. In International finance and politics, it
had become impossible for anyone to ignore or obstruct the Jew.
(Graphic shows nobleman in a wig and a Jew)
Nobleman (to someone out of frame): "The Jews' power is too stro-"
Jew: "You wanna pay me back for the money you borrowed right now?"
After that the Rothschild family financed the construction of the Suez Canal in 1875. After World War 1 ended they pressured the British government with money.
(Graphic shows a British man and a Jew holding a money sack)
Jew: "Kick out the Arabs so the Jews can make a nation."
This resulted in the Balfour Declaration, promising the construction of a Jewish State.
Balfour: "Following Rothschild's proposal,
we vow to build a Jewish state in Palestine."
After World War 2, Rothschild financed huge amounts of money for the construction of the Israeli nation. Rothschild even spread into Eastern Europe and South America. They [unclear whether he's talking about the Jews or the Rothschilds] came to rule the world's finance and industry. The backlash and hatred against the Jews who use their money as a weapon to shake domestic and international politics burst forth like
a dam.
Antisemitism spread throughout the whole of Europe. The national
terror that was abuse of that anger in domestic politics was Hitler's massacre
of the Jews.
Hitler: "Jews, who ruin their host like parasites, must
disappear from the earth."

Note that there is no scale given to Hitler's massacre of the Jews. It's called terror[ism], which probably makes it sound like it was a) not so large scale and b) meant to scare the Jews he did not massacre.

p236
After the War of Independence, America's industry and economy
amazingly expanded. [Nathan] Rothschild quickly formed a plan to spread into
America.
Rothschild: "It's not difficult to grab the American market, but
the problem is if our clan appears in person America will resist us violently.
We must put up someone as a proxy to be our servant.
Spencer Morgan, a merchant Rothschild had had his eye on, was born in Massachusetts and established and operated Morgan Trading Company in London.
There is a rumor that Morgan was a Jew, and this is not clear, but
one thing that is certain is that he was Rothschild's servant.

He has this offhand way of implying that someone is a Jew, which serves as both an explanation of that person's actions and further proof that Jews are bad.

Rothschild dispatched his son John Pierpont Morgan to America as his full proxy
(총대리인). In New York he established J. P. Morgan Bank. J. P. Morgan Bank, thanks to Rothschild's massive funding power, was quickly able to rise to the strongest position in American finance.
J. P. Morgan and the other Jews that controlled American finance (미국의 금융업계를 장악한 J. P. 모건 등의 유대인들은) . . .

"The heart of world finance is New York." "So New York is where the greatest concentration of Jews in America are." "So 9.11 terror happened in New York."

Finally they succeeded in creating the Federal Reserve System, which regulates the American currency supply. Just as in England, the Jews secured top seats and grabbed the right to print money
(Photo of Alan Greenspan)

p237)
With Rothschild's backing, J.P. Morgan Bank grabbed DuPont, U.S. Steel, electric, telegraphs, telephone, chemical companies, et cetera. For a time, [Morgan] squeezed one fourth of America's total production and built a huge empire.
An Egyptian American philosopher named Edward Said is the authority on Orientalism".
(Photo of Said with speech bubble saying "Orientalism is cultural racism!")
The West, and especially Europe, consider themselves better and the Easter (orient) remainder of the world uncivilized and inferior. The core of Orientalism is the whites of Europe and America's justification for ruling the world. What is the most representative instance of Orientalism?
(Graphic shows a white pointing a camera at a Chinese person)
White: "Asia is mysterious!"
Chinese man: "I guess that means Europe is 'normal'.

I will remember this the next time someone here in Korea calls something about me "mysterious!" (신기해!)

They (Europe) use themselves as the standard to judge the rest of the world
and consider the East mysterious. Using whites as the measuring stick
for every value and judgment was called white supremacy and developed into
racism.
French philosopher Sartre pointed out this fact.
(Graphic shows a Frenchman and a turbaned man bowing to him.
Caption reads "Europeans became human while making monsters and slaves of the
East." (유럽인은 동양을 괴물과 종으로 만들면서 인간 되었다))

The above is my translation of the Korean translation of the original, which was written in Jean-Paul Sartre's Preface to Frantz Fanon's "The Wretched of the Earth", in which he writes "[A]ll of us without exception have profited by colonial exploitation. This fat, pale continent ends by falling into what Fanon rightly calls narcissism. Cocteau became irritated with Paris — ‘that city which talks about itself the whole time’. Is Europe any different? And that super-European monstrosity, North America? Chatter, chatter: liberty, equality, fraternity, love, honour, patriotism and what have you. All this did not prevent us from making anti-racial speeches about dirty niggers, dirty Jews and dirty Arabs. High-minded people, liberal or just soft-hearted, protest that they were shocked by such inconsistency; but they were either mistaken or dishonest, for with us there is nothing more consistent than a racist humanism since the European has only been able to become a man through creating slaves and monsters."

But it's not just Europeans. Americans are also thoroughly enslaved by orientalism.
(Graphic shows a cowboy)
Cowboy: "Whites are the center of the world. America is a country built by whites."
If we speak as Sartre did, we should say "Americans became the owners of their country while making slaves and monsters of the Indians."

p238
The leader of the trend is none other than Hollywood movies. Like when England made its colony India inferior and whites superior . . . (영국이 식민지 인도를 열등화 하여 백인을 우월한 존재로 만든 것처럼). . . even in Nobel Prize winner Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book . . . (captions state "Mowgli is smart because he's a white child. The natives are on the same level as animals."). . . and in African Tarzan's story, too, whites are great and colored people (유색인) are inferior. (Caption states "Tarzan is white so he can teach himself how to read books. He gets together with white Jane.)
Hollywood movies play a decisive role in this propaganda and brainwashing. These movies were so magic that when a scene of early 20th century imperialism in which an American commander played by Charlton Heston penetrated into Beijing, it made even the victim Eastern audience (피해자인 동양의 관객들) cheer.

This is a reference to the movie 55 Days at Peking, in which Heston leads a multinational force going to Beijing to save the foreigners being held captive in the city by the Boxer rebellion.

Hollywood portrayed the Native Americans as savage and warlike and the whites as righteous and the embodiment of bravery. Even subject peoples clapped for the white side (피지배 민족까지 백인 편에 박수를 보내게 한 무서운 힘을 발휘했지).
(Graphic shows the author standing next to a sign that states "Now showing the great film "Men of the Wilderness (황야의 사나이들) The friendship and love of the brave men who faced the violent Indians)

p239)
The first people to fully perceive [the power of] this frightening cultural industry called film were the Jews. More Jews started the film industry with Jewish financing, and Jewish statesmen were implicated in the background.
(Graphic shows two bearded men)
Man 1"They're making a movie that badmouths the Jews (유대인을 깎아 내리는 영화 만든답니다)."
Man 2: "Don't let them make it."
It is still a Jewish industry employing Jewish artists. In early Hollywood the 8 studio heads were all Jewish. Beginning with the early film industry's biggest star, Charlie Chaplin, Fairbanks [sic], Buster Keaton, the 4 Marx Brothers, etc. were all Jews.
In the 1940s the world viewership of films reached 10 billion. In America, 4 billion movie ticket were sold. Of the world's 67,000 movie theaters, 17,000 of them were in America, sohow explosive do you think Hollywood's power was?
(Graphic shows a woman clapping at a movie screen with the caption "Movies really are the best way to brainwash the masses")

Second best. Comic books are still number one in my book.

It's because, unbelievably, until the 30s all the people who monopolized the film industry were Jews.
(Graphic shows a Jew)
Jew: "Make money and suppress antisemitism (반유대주의), Now that's killing two
birds with one stone."

Next time: Rockefeller, the media, communism, and how to tell a Jew by his last name.

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Chapter 8, pages 231-234

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So far, I have been translating all of the narration in the book and leaving out the speech bubbles unless they are necessary for context or particularly interesting. The same is true of the pictures, which I only describe when they are quite shocking. The reason for doing so is that I think the pictures in the book are extremely off-putting. Images of Uncle Sam trapped in a Star of David, or the royalty of Europe prostrating themselves before a haughty enthroned Nathan Rothschild are so over the top that they provoke a strong reaction in the viewer. I really want to focus on the portion of the book that is unquestionably being presented as fact by Rhie Won-bok, and that would be the narration. This seems to me to be the most unambiguous and unquestionable way to bring attention to his glaring racism, antisemitism, and general poor scholarship.
On a related note, I am curious whether I should continue translating so much, or whether I should focus on the worst portions of the book. I think the whole narrative flow is quite interesting, but I also understand that posting everything robs the low points of some of their visceral punch. Any thoughts?

p231)
The first place that the Jews got a solid hold on the finance industry was Amsterdam. After the religious revolution religious groups being oppressed in their homelands were pushed there. Netherlands was open-minded towards Jews and Sefaradim chased from Spain came there. In the time of the English Revolution the Jews lent huge sums of war funding to Oliver Cromwell and so played a decisive role in his victory. At the chance of profit, Jews spread en masse into England. In 1688, Stewart King James the 2nd was forced out and William the 3rd of Orange, from the Netherlands, rose to the British crown. William was afraid that James had his eye on retaking the crown. He needed a massive amount of money and he consulted with Jewish merchants.
(Graphic shows William of Orange with a Jew)
Jew: "But you know nothing is free in this world. Instead of giving you this money at low interest, give me some rights equal in value to the money I've lent you."
William: "Be straight, you're asking for the right to mint money, right?"
Jew: "Oh, your highness, you've got a good head on your shoulders, that's just what I'm talking about."
William: "What's so tough about that." (maybe we could translate this as "No problem.")
Jew (thinks): "Stupid. He doesn't even know that national sovereignty is the power to coin money."

p232)
"The Jews who got permission in 1694 established the Bank of England.

"The Bank of England remained a private establishment until it was nationalized in 1946."

(Graphic shows a Jew in a yarmulke waving from behind an altar or box labeled "Bank of England" with a menorah standing on it)
This was the Jews' chance to grab England's financial power, and thus had the world's finances wrapped around their fingers (이를 계기로 유대인은 영국 내의 금융권을 장악, 세상을 그들의 뜻대로 좌지우지하였어).
Jews even occupied the chair of England's Prime Minister. Disraeli and Glad Stone (글래드 스톤 ) are representative of this.

"But it's not just England. All over Europe Jewish power, based on monetary power, began to get stronger."

Representatives of that power exhibit strong power world-wide to this day as financial dynasties. We can point to the Rothschild clan. The Rothschilds were a family of Jewish international financiers from Frankfurt. They were born in Germany and so this German Jewish name was pronounced "Rothschild' (로트 실트), but we now pronounce it in the British style. They are an ultra-wealthy Jewish clan that had all of Europe clasped in their hand via their money (전유럽을 돈으로 휘어잡은 거부 유대인 가문이지).


p233)
This family's leader, Mayer Amschel Rothschild was born in the Frankfurt ghetto. Rothschild started a bank with money he gathered from usurious loans (고리대금업으로 출발하여 거금을 모아 로트실트, 즉 로스차일드 은행을 설립하고 . . .). In London, Naples, Vienna, and other places he opened branches and sent his sons to them. After he constructed a connected financial network and exercised huge influence, getting close to each country's government and power elite. They even got ennobled in various countries, meddling deeply in their government. They took power on their back as today's world financial capital's basis was solidified by them.
In Europe whenever there was a big war the Rothschilds' money played an important role. European history was reversed depending on the direction their money flowed.
England's Nathan Rothschild decided the outcome of the Napoleonic War. Nathan Rothschild lent 100 million pounds to each country's government. He had them fight Napoleon, who was hostile to Jews.

p234)
After Napoleon escaped from Elba, when the decisive Battle of Waterloo began, Rothschild promised enormous sums of financing so Prussia and the other nations' volunteer armies could receive massive reinforcements. The greatly bolstered allied forces delivered a crushing defeat to Napoleon. Napoleon eventually came to ruin at the hands of the Jews (그는 결국 유대인에 의해 몰락한 셈이지).
(Graphic shows Star of David-clad hand holding a mallet and bopping Napoleon on the head)
Nathan Rothschild as a financier was the first person to perceive that information was important. When the Battle of Waterloo began he bought off the reporters. The British and allied forces won, but of course everyone in London heard the news that they had lost. London instantly went nuts (아수라장으로 돌변). In London's stock market, the stock prices plummeted 90%. Rothschild bought these stocks at the same price as sheets of toilet paper. He was able to snatch up 62% of the stocks being exchanged on the market. England's famous families went bankrupt and fell into poverty. They had no choice but to prostrate themselves before Nathan Rothschild, now England's greatest rich man.

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Chapter 8, pages 227-230 (Wherein we are told that the Jews caused American Slavery and the genocide of the Native Americans)

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Thanks to the one and only Marmot for sending people this way. I've had some great feedback from like-minded people and some well appreciated help with my translation from Colin, and an offer to put Chapter 8 on Flickr and make it publicly available. I had considered it, but I'm not really equipped for it and my own copy is too messy to scan. Also it's good to know that someone out there is double-checking my translation. I certainly try to be as faithful to the original as I can, but I'm not perfect. That said, I am a bit unsure about my translation of a few sentences on page 227. The Sombart quotes that Rhie uses are perhaps beyond my abilities. Anyway, on with the show.

p227)
So what is the relationship between America and the Jews? In the early 20th century, German economist and sociologist Werner Sombart said "What we call the American Spirit is nothing more than the Jewish ethos."

Thanks to Colin for the translation hlp here. The original (Korean translation of German, presumably) had "우리가 '미국의 혼 (양키 혼)' 이라고 부르는 것은 순수한 유대정신에 지나지 않는다"

The American spirit is a stage in the deterioration of Judaism into a form that wears the mask of Christianity, which is known as Puritanism. (아메리카의 정신은 퓨리탄(청교)을 통하여 그리스도교의 가면을 쓴 유대교로 변질되어가는 과정이며 . . .)
(Graphic shows Sombart speaking to an angry crowd)
Sombart: "Puritanism is artificial Judaism."
Crowd: "How could he go so far?"
What's so Antisemitic about this idea?
(Graphic shows two angry men)
Angry man 1: "Sombart is a mouthpiece for the Nazis and hates Jews."
Angry man 2: "No, what he says could be true."
After Cromwell's Puritanical Revolution, England gradually became Judaified (유대화되어 갔다).
(Graphic shows England with three trees labeled, in ascending order of size, "The Anglican Church"(성공회), "Puritanism"(청도교), and "Jewish power" (유대세력))
The Puritan group crossed to America to build the U.S.
(Graphic shows a ship containing trees labeled "Puritanism" and "Jews" (청도교 and 유대인) approaching the New World)
After Cromwell, England gradually started to be influenced more and more.
(Graphic shows a Jew handing a bag with a dollar sign on it to an Englishman.
Jew: "You need this, right?
Finally, the government of the U.K., and going forward, world politics, came under the sway of the Jews (유대인들의 입김이 크게 작용 하게 되었다는 의미이고 . . .)
(Graphic shows the Jew, now hiding behind the Englishman, whispering in his ear)
Jew (to Englishman): "It must be done"
Englishman (to the reader): "Do it!"

This is more of the same nefarious Jewry, with the yarmulkes and the white robes and the hook noses. Note, however, that cartoons of all races have huge bulbous noses in Rhie's books.

The reason can be summarized as Puritanism and Judaism's greatest point in common.
Englishman and Jew: "Money, Wealth!"

p228)
The world's religions oppose wealth and teach control of greed. This is done in order to maintain public order in human society and prevent the confusion of greed and pillage. Of course the Old and New Testaments disavow wealth (부를 부정한다). So Catholicism teaches not to covet wealth and honors. Buddhism teaches to empty the mind of desire. Hinduism from the very beginning taught not to own anything. Islam requires one to throw away earthly desire. In this way religions invariably teach to throw away earthly desires and see money making as an activity that can't be clean. Only two religions emphasize that it is OK to become wealthy: Judaism and Puritanism. Calvin emphasized the "Honest Rich Man" ("깨끗한 부자"), and so does Judaism emphasize becoming wealthy.
(Speech bubble coming out of a picture of the Talmud but not directly attributed to it) "Nothing is worse than poverty. Those stained with poverty take all the world's trouble."

I'm particularly interested in finding out what this clean rich man (깨끗한 부자) of his is. I can't find any direct quotes of Calvin's by doing a cursory internet search. Any clues?

p229)
The Jewish scripture "The Talmud" teaches the importance of wealth. (Marked as quote) "Poverty is much worse than all the pains in the world." "There are three pains people suffer: anxiety, arguments, and an empty wallet. Every part of the body depends on the mind. The mind depends on the wallet. Money is a blessing. Wealth is a fortress and poverty is the ruins of a fort."
Calvinism which forms the roots of Puritanism was repulsed by Catholicism and Lutheranism. It criticized Catholicism as rotten. Both Catholicism and Lutheranism rejected wealth, and Calvinism, which spoke for the newly emerging bourgeois class of manufacturers and traders, justified their occupation as honorable labor and their wealth as "honest wealth" (깨끗한 부, 즉 청부 (淸富)). After the English Revolution this idea formed the psychological basis of the Industrial Revolution. This became the theoretical basis of England's emerging capitalism.
Adam Smith, who was a Jew, wrote 'The Wealth of Nations' (유대인이었던 애덤 스미스의 <국부론>이 발표되었고 . . .) .

Full stop. This sentence essentially serves only to reinforce his contention that wealth and Jews are inextricably related. Adam Smith was not Jewish, and I have failed to even find any English sources that make the claim. Wikipedia specifically states that he was baptized in Kirkcaldy on June 5, 1723.

The book was published in 1776, the same year as the Declaration of Independence.

p230)

Protestantism, with its faith in the stockpiling of honest wealth
and Judaism, with its consideration of wealth as a virtue, formed a perfect match.

"Wherever Puritanism gained power, a feast of greed commenced . . .
The invisible principle character of that feast was definitely the Jew. Why?"

The first time I read this I absolutely refused to believe that I was understanding it correctly. I read the whole page several times thinking he was being ironic or quoting someone else, but his meaning is very clear, that every bad thing done in the name of colonialism and Western expansionism was the fault of the Jews and their wicked wicked money.

Jews were the first people to see money as a commodity, so the Jews are the ones who most penetrate the financial industry that makes money with money, because the Jews have an advantage (돈으로 돈을 버는 금융업을 가장 잘 꿰뚫어보고 이를 장악한 존재가 유대인이었거든 - Feel free to correct me if this is wrong).
To the Jews, who amid fierce pressure could hold not other jobs, money was the only thing they could believe in, as well as their most important weapon for protecting their lives (모진 핍박과 멸시 속에 다른 직업을 가질수 없었던 유대인들에게 오로지 믿을 수 있는 건 돈뿐이었고 돈은 그들의 생명을 지켜주는 소중한 무기였던 거야).
Naturally they persistently saved money and amassed great wealth, and they used their collected money to research new methods of making money. They created stock companies, banks, stock markets, et cetera. They held a grip on the financial market with tenacity and excellent skills that no other people (민족) could stand face to face with.

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Chapter 8 (Part 2)

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Here is more of Chapter 8 of Monnara Iunnara (먼나라 이웃나라) Volume 10, dealing with the Jews. On page 225, author Rhie Won-bok was discussing the depredations that the Jews underwent, including prohibition from owning land and engaging in commerce or industry.

p226)
To top it all, They were forced to wear a badge indicating they were Jews. The Nazi oppression we've seen in movies had been going on since long before. They were forbidden from owning land and building farms.

I had not been aware that this practice had such a long history.

What could the Jews, forbidden from commerce and industry, do for a living? Eventually there was nothing left for them to do except usurious lending and finance. (결국은 돈장사, 즉 금융업이나 고리대금업밖에 없었지.)
(Graphic shows an angry Jew behind a counter, next to a sign that says "High interest service - Mortgages, Shylock Loan Service")
This was because Christians thought loaning money to their coreligionists for interest was a sin. It was the dirtiest profession and they would not touch it. So naturally Jews became the high interest lenders (고리대금업자), and again the hatred against Jews increased. The Jews earning money with money, lent money to kings and monarchs and gained all sorts of concessions. The nobility and the ruling class's hatred and wariness of Jews reached new peaks in the end of the 19th century. Antisemitism (반유대주의) grew stronger, eventually leading to Hitler's massacre of the Jews.
p226)
This is how Jewish history came to be stained with bitter tears (lit. tears of blood). Heated steel gains strength the longer you pound it. So the Jews grew more united and stronger the bigger their trials and pains. Our people (i.e. Koreans) experienced the pain of invasion several thousand times. We developed a strong and indomitable tenacity and mental strength. And yet still our land was stolen from us for more than 35 years [clear from the cartoon that he is referring to the Japanese colonial period].
But for 2000 years the Jews wandered, facing all kinds of want and oppression. They banded together with their religion. They helped each other and tightened their community with their Jewish mentality (유대의식). They were as strong as it was difficult for other peoples to defeat them, The Jewish religion is a mental rope that binds them together as a people. That is the true nature of the Jews.
(Graphic shows a Jew)
Jew: "Your blood line is not important. If someone believes in Judaism, that person is a Jew." ("핏줄이 중요한 게 아니다. 유대교를 믿으면 그가 곧 유대인이다!")

Is this, strictly speaking, true?

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Teaching bad jokes as facts

Here's a gem from the chapter called "Credit is Life: How Americans Live"

p218)
Cars are more than a way to get around smoothly. They broadcast one's social status like the sound of a gong. People judge a person's station in life by looking at their car
(Graphic shows two men looking at a man in sunglasses and a suit)
First man: "That guy drives a Rolls Royce."
Second man: "Wow, he's really successful."
In particular the German BMW is the black American's 'dream car' and is a symbol of success.
(Graphic shows a black man in sunglasses driving a car. Above him the caption says "BMW = Black Men's Wish")

Rhie Won-bok, who taught you this junk?

Chapter 8: One Must Know the Jews to Truly See America

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I was originally planning to translate the book from cover to cover in order. This morning I was flipping through the book on the bus and I got sucked into the eighth chapter, which deals with the history of Judaism. When I set out to translate this book I expected to find some interesting perspectives or factual errors. Instead I've found a full-on anti-Semitic polemic, and various other dubious comments about race which I'll get to later. Without further ado, Chapter 8: One Must Know the Jews to Truly See America: Jews, the powerful force that moves America. My comments are in italics this color, particularly interesting portions are in red.

This picture opens up the chapter on page 219

p220)
Among all the countries of the world, there is only one race in which a majority of the people don't live in their country of origin (본국), and that is the Jews.
Cartoon Korean man: "Korea = The country of Koreans."
Cartoon Chinese man: "China = The country where 95% of the people are of the Han nationality."
Cartoon Chinese man: "The largest population of people living outside their home country is the 40 million Chinese who live abroad. But that's only 0.3% of their home country's 1.3 billion people."
Israel has a population of 6.2 million. There are 6.5 million Jews in the U.S.
The nationless race of Jews (나라 없는 민족 유대인) were chased out of their homeland of Palestine in 70AD. They spread throughout the whole world for almost 2000 years.
(Graphic shows lines radiating out of Palestine to Western Europe and subsequently to America, Central Europe, East Europe, Africa, India, Asia and subsequently China).

Is this accurate? I was led to believe that the majority of American Jews come from Eastern and Central Europe.

The Jewish race, that advanced from Africa to China, share something with the Chinese, in that there is not a corner of the world in which either has not set down roots.
In all the world, Korea is the only place where the Jews failed to set down roots.
(Graphic shows a Joseon soldier in a guard tower)
Soldier: Only in Korea, where there aren't even any Chinatowns, were Jews unable to settle.
It's impossible to know which of the two races is the most "severe" (or harsh or sharp, "어쩌 보면 두 민족은 전세계에서 가장 '지독한' 민족일지도 몰라")
We Koreans, who are hard-working and diligent and are sad to come in second, can amass great victories in America with our competitive spirit. But in the end each and every time we hit a barrier, and that barrier is the Jews.
p221)
We Koreans, who don't know how to lose to any other race . . .

". . . [We] can never surpass the wall of Jews in American society."

This is not only true of Koreans: Every other race and ethnicity has this in common.
Cartoon Jew: "So many people hate us, but no one can mess with us."
Jews make up slightly more than 2% of the American population. They control American finance and naturally the American economy controls the world economy. They twist the media to their own ends and control the world of politics. They pilot the U.S. government from behind the scenes and they even have world politics wrapped around their finger (좌지우지). They have a monopoly on Hollywood and paint a picture of the Jewish people as virtuous victims. They play the part of herald for the message that the Arabs and Muslims that they oppose are a barbarous and violent mass.
In a word, the whites at the heart of America are called WASPs (White Anglo-Saxon Protestants). . .

". . .but the real group that controls America through money and media pressure is the Jews."

So if you don't understand the Jews, you'll never understand America.
p222)
So what kind of people are the Jews? The Jews and their current implacable enemies the Arabs are sister races, both find their roots in the Semitic language family. They both draw their ancestry from their earliest forebear Abram or Abraham. According to the old testament, Abraham's great-grandson Judah lent his name to the Jews. Jews differed from other Arab peoples in their belief in the single god Yahweh.

So he's saying that the Jews are a kind of Arab, just to be clear here.

They believe that the Jews were chosen by God and that some day God would send a messiah, i.e. a savior, to save the Jewish people from hardship. The Jews clashed strongly with neighboring peoples over their belief that they were the chosen people, their monotheism and their belief in a Messiah. Even worse, their refusal to accept the gods of the invading Romans proved to be a huge stumbling block. Eventually in 70AD, they were expelled from their homeland.

p223)
This is called the Diaspora, in which the Jews were chased out of their homeland, Palestine, by the Romans.

The book does use the word Isreal in cartoons depicting the modern state of Isreal. but whenever referring to the origin of Jews it uses the term Palestine, insinuating that Isreal is a modern invention, I imagine.

From then on it was all sorrow for the Jews. They were the target of hatred and oppression as a parasite race living in other people's lands. The Jews spread out to all the compass points, but there were two main groups. One group followed the Arabian conquest of the old Roman Empire into Spain and
Portugal. The other is the group that scattered into Germany and Central Europe.
The Jews of Spain and Portugal and the Arab world are called
Sefaradim. The Jews of Germany are called Ashkenazim. Even
today there are two religious leaders, one for each group. The Sefaradim and Ashkenazim existed in equal numbers during the
Middle Ages, but in 1492, Spain issued a complete order of deportation and the Sefaradim numbers fell.

(Graphic shows a voice coming from under a flag and sword)

Voice: "Since we're expelling the Muslims, expel the Jews, who are of a different religion too."
Up until World War 2, their population didn't pass 1.5 million
out of a total 16.5 million Jews.
p224)
During World War 2, Nazi Germany achieved the slaughter
of 6 million Jews. They killed 1/3 of the world's Jews in
this act of barbarity. But why would Christians hate Jews so much?

This is nearly the only reference to the holocaust in the book.

The first reason is that in their religion, central figures say that the Jews killed Jesus, but that's ridiculous. Jesus was a Jew, and his first believers were Jews. That's just an excuse for hating Jews. The second and biggest reason for hating Jews is that they will never give up their religion and reject Christianity, because they believe they are the chosen people and that a Messiah is coming.
To make them a groveling race, they were not allowed to own land. They couldn't join clubs or engage in commerce and industry. They were gathered together and made to live in ghettos.

There's plenty more on it's way. The general gist is that the Jews are a particularly unpleasant kind of Arab from Palestine twisted by years of oppression into a malevolent and unbeatable force.

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