Chapter 14

Chapter 14

            Hegemony: aggression or expansion by large nation in an effort to achieve world domination. Personally I found this word strong and interesting. Based on the definition I got to comprehend that the actual meaning of hegemony I got the feeling that it can be used in a situation where one must achieve a certain goal. The fact that you can dominate and overcome what you may put yourself into. I enjoyed the fact that they talked about power and the dominance the society holds upon citizens. It was also discussed how we differanitiate our self among others such are black or white, poor or rich etc.  It was also important how it was mentioned the roles of intellectual. Barker in his book he mentions traditional intellectuals who are also referred as scientific, literary and may other positions that take place in today’s society. to my understanding I found these people important because they are the ones that make our place a better place. If we do know have these people fulfilling this areas we would not know the  basic things in life.  Within this particular description it seem to me as if it was not as appreciated  when it was said that it was common sense. However if we do not have this basic skills we would not be able to over come any job put out there. In the new language of cultural and politics it talked about the way people still refer themselves as. Even though we attempt to say we are equal to each other still use negative connotations. However within the book it has several examples where certain groups attempt to prove positive movements.  For instance, gay and lesbians create celebrations to receive support and gather enough people that share the same wants and therefore their voice is heard.  Many other groups have face struggles where their voices needed to be heard. In which I believe power is the phrase that gets involved. Why power many may ask? I personally thought power was a word to highlight. I was often used in the text. Not only it was mentioned throughout the chapter but referring to the real world what we now consider heroes needed power to move obstacles. Articulation was described in an interesting way how two different concepts can be brought together as one. Why was this interesting to me? The reason why is because us human do this all the time we get two different situations and somehow time tie the together. Even though they can mean to different things we manage to bring together but not only that bring them together in a way that they make sense. Society itself has took care of making this term important. It was defined as part of ones culture and also represents you as a person. Now a days people feel it is necessary to adapt this to their life to bring some kind of sense to their culture and life.  Multiculturalism is like a melting pot in other words where all kinds of people from different culture come together as one.