James C.L.R & M.K Gandhi
In James article “Beyond Boundary”
there speaks of the struggle between cultures of resistance and cultures of
oppression within the educational system and sports. There is a sense of power
that keeps people oppressed similar to how James felt being oppressed from
keeping up with his grades and being a “well rounded” student while doing
sports. This idea reflects a lot about the concept of power and truth, where as
those who have power and are able to create this set of public “truths” for
those to go forth by it seems that everyone else in the public has to follow
those set of ideals. This is not the most ideal because it would lead to more
oppression by those who are seen to be not following the “truth”. A similar
idea presented in the article by Gandhi in regards to the context of India
during the British imperialism, he suggested that those who were oppressed were
physically and mentally enslaved by cultural conformity to believe that they
are suppose to do what is being told of them to do just to conform around the
society they are in. I really liked how Gandhi puts into perspective the fact
that we are who we think we are not but what people force or tell us to do. Our
minds are so powerful that even if we are not who we think we are, we will
still see it as what our mind wants us to see in perspective of. It shows that
in society if we are to allow those who oppresses us to do so, they can
eventually take over our thoughts, our morals and become our sole reliant for
our future. I think that both articles served a very meaningful purpose as to
how we are ultimately the ones in control and in order to keep in control we
must know what not to believe.
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