April 26, 2017
Blog Response: "From Beyond a Boundary" and "Hind Swaraj"
James was born at
the time when Trinidad was colonized by the British. His whole life was a
product of English rule. His education, love for English literature and cricket
came from an imperialist culture. Ghandi would most likely criticize James and
Trinidadians for being slaves to the British, either for not being aware of
their enslavement or giving the British hegemonic power. Ghandi preaches for
absolute freedom, by living completely free from machinery, but a drawback is
reverting back to undeveloped ways of living. I would see why people would
disagree with Ghandi - his way of thinking would prevent society from advancing
and deepen conflicts between countries. I think we can all agree now that
colonization and imperialism is bad, but India also benefitted from British
rule through the education, infrastructure, and economics. Ghandi's version of
freedom is nearly impossible to achieve nowadays because of the level of global
integration. We have no idea what the world would look like if history was
absent of slavery, and for all we know, the present could be good or bad.
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