I can't figure out if this is indicative of something really disturbing about North Korea, or not. I don't have kids so tell me, what would you have to do to them to achieve this and wouldn't their little fingers bleed? Or, did I just completely waste my time during Kindergarten?
It's a different culture, more submissive to authority, parents.
However, the little girl in the middle (the one missing her front teeth) seemed to be having a great time performing...a literal 'hambone'.
Lynne, to answer your question, I think that these children probably already have calluses on their fingers, and based upon their expertise with their guitars, I would say they'd been playing a lot for the last 2-3 years.
Kids are really amazing! Wish I could have had a dozen! But, I'm like you. Even when I see women in pictures that live in Korea, Viet Nam, Pakistan, Romania, Iran, Iraq, my heart quivers and I ache thinking about what they must live through. I really believe they will be given special privaledges in Heaven with our Lord. My Christian heroes are the people in those countries who are being exiled, tortured , beaten etc because of their faith. One lady is constatnly on my heart. Her name is Asia Bibi. In Pakistan. She has been in prison for a long while, can't see her kids and just keeps on witnessing! They actually have given her the death sentence but I believe she is still alive.
Amen to everything Leenda said. As to your original question, Lynne, I don't think you should be creeped out by the North Korean kids. At some point, I suppose their little fingertips did bleed; that's the price you pay for playing stringed instruments. But maybe the Koreans have ways of teaching tiny kids that makes it easier.
Our time in kindergarten probably was wasted, by comparison, although kindergarten in our day was like the school of Athens compared to today's "Head Start" programs and such. But remember, we're Japhethites, and the schools are run by and for Hamites. Those precious kids in North Korea are Shemites. Lor was right: they're different.
Look at their performance in the public schools. I will continue to say it until the day I drop off the twig: Shem is the master race. That doesn't do much for me, being from Japheth, but it's true.
(03-22-2011 09:32 AM)William Wrote: [ -> ]Amen to everything Leenda said. As to your original question, Lynne, I don't think you should be creeped out by the North Korean kids. At some point, I suppose their little fingertips did bleed; that's the price you pay for playing stringed instruments. But maybe the Koreans have ways of teaching tiny kids that makes it easier.
Our time in kindergarten probably was wasted, by comparison, although kindergarten in our day was like the school of Athens compared to today's "Head Start" programs and such. But remember, we're Japhethites, and the schools are run by and for Hamites. Those precious kids in North Korea are Shemites. Lor was right: they're different.
Look at their performance in the public schools. I will continue to say it until the day I drop off the twig: Shem is the master race. That doesn't do much for me, being from Japheth, but it's true.
Wow, ya'll had kindergarten? We just stayed home till it was time to go to 1st grade.
I remember kindergarten! I loved most of it. I do remember having to sit in the courner a time or two and I didn't like that part. I also remember wearing a brown polka-dot dress to our kindergarten graduation. Weird the things our minds hang onto.
I remember in kindergarten trying to make round wheels for a construction paper bus out of little square pieces of black paper, by cutting off the corners. They made me use left-handed scissors (being as I'm left-handed) and I could never cut with those things. It made me cry. I cried a lot in the early grades.....usually over math, and left-handed scissors.
We ran around like hyped up little maniacs in my kindergarten. Later in college, I dated a guy and it turned out we both went to the same private kindergarten at the same time so we told everybody we met in kindergarten.
