my thoughts

In the class discussion of Donald duk some things came up that I wanted to talk about.
The word SIFU came up, no one seemed to know what it was. Answer. In Chinaness tradition Sifu is what an elder of an an art or skilled work is called. Its most common use would be when a student refers to a teacher as their Sifu. but any one how is an apprentice under a Master of art or a skilled craft will sometimes refer to their mentor as Sifu.

Another thing that struck me as important were the dream secqueces. Dreams are very symbolic. Many in psychology believe they are expressions of our concuss worries or our unconsus thoughts. In Donald duk's case i think his dreams express the side of himself that actually wants to know more about his family's past and heritage. Because he spends every waking moment rejecting his Chinese heritage, his mind spends his sleeping hours reaching out to it to try to reach a fuller self understanding that his own consciousness has yet to grasp.
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The last thing that came up was the idea of the Mandate of Heaven philosophy. That was the Chinese philosophy that stated that Heaven blessed the ruler so long as he was a good ruler but if he failed in his duty's the Mandate would then pass to another more suitable ruler because in his failure he would loss the blessings of the heavens. but the ruler had to usually be of Nobel birth, that was also a condition. I found it curious that the author put this next to a line about European kings given the god given right to rule by way of blood because in base they are exactly the same but they were made out to be different.