Introduction to Sociology / Q&A (11/27) / Taerim Kim

1. Why some countries are not peaceful? Choose one country and then compare it to Korea? What indicator makes them not peaceful?

 I choose China. South Korea ranked on 47 out of 163 countries, and China ranked 116 out of 163 countries. South Korea and China got the simillar score on militarization and domestic & Int. Conflict section, but China got much higher score on Society & Security section.  I think that's because in China, there's lots of conflits between China government and minority. Not like China, there aren't lots of minority who has their own distinct characteristic. Recently, there are lots of multicultural families, but I think they are in different  situation compares to China's minority. However, China emphasize unity of the country, so they oppresses the minority. The minority in China, for example Tibet, constantly require China government to their secession, but the central oppressed them with violence. So I think that's the reason China got high score.