Description
When a country is at war or under attack, the people usually rally behind the head of state and unite, the sense of belonging and defending what is the motherland becomes stronger, and divisions are muted; but it is quite different when the country is at war with itself. Then the divisions between groups and communities are exacerbated and the sense of belonging to one's group or community is strengthened. This is not unusual, but what is striking about DMZ is that this sense of community is much more complex than what is usually portrayed, all the more so because it takes as its example a multicultural city in which ancestry and cultural heritage are linked less to territory than to migrations or shared values. Therefore, what is emphasized and what we will study is how both ethnicity and socio-economic background mix to show how complex and paradoxical the consequences of this sense of belonging can be, and how the behavior of individuals and groups can move away from their traditional spheres.
