Center for Asian Democracy

This past week the Center for Asian Democracy held a lecture on India. The topic seemed a little off topic being that our class has been discussing Taiwan, China and now Japan, however, I attended anyway. The speaker discussed an individual who was very dedicated to his sister. His sister died at an early age and he spent the rest of his life trying to dedicate and keep remembered the name and life of his sister. Again, I was still confused on why my senior seminar class would be invited to such a lecture and was wondering how I was supposed to write a critical analysis relating this lecture to class. However, after deep thought I figured out the connection. It may seem off the wall to some, but the individual discussed in this lecture (I cannot spell his name so I keep calling him individual) is related to its Asian counterparts of Japan, China and Taiwan in respect to loyalty. All of these countries believe in Divine loyalty for their country or their cause. The person discussed in the lecture on Thursday for the Center of Asian Democracy showed the utmost loyalty to his sister after his death, so much so as to abandon his own wife and children and live where the people adorned and respected him, the life of his sister and his beliefs. Upon further reflection, it reminded me of how the Asian culture does seem to have a lot more loyalty for causes they believe in or their family versus America who believes in worrying mostly about a person individually. Some may not agree, but that is what I got from the lecture.