Questions of the week!!
1. What impact did Western education have on colonial societies?
Western education made a huge impact on colonial societies because it was a gateway to get out of any oppression that was present. Education was obtained through missionaries or by government schools that created new indenties for these colonial societies. To learn how to read and write was seen as having a super power back then. Funny as it is, education still symbolize as a gift from the gods in most counties that don’t have free education like the United States. However during the colonial times, education was seen as a ticket out of forced labor. On a positive note it can be seen as access to “high paying positions at government bureau cries, mission organizations, or at business firms.” Besides receiving a better job it can lead to social mobility, elite status in their community, goal to achieve, and being an equal to the white race. This is pretty much the best it can get for anyone who receives education is trying to get a better life during the colonial times. Those who seek and received education would embrace the European culture by following their fashion, culture, and also speaking English or French. For instance, my mom was born and raised in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. Her was out was influence of the west. Her parents forced her to go to school and to learn English and French. Although, they were not rich my grandparents worked hard enough to place my mom in school. It paid off because when the north was moving into the south, my mom fled the country to America. My mom assimilated to the entire American life here with her English and continued her education. My mom firmly believed that with education she would be seen as an equal and with respect. The west continues to impact the world. I know that in Vietnam my own family is paying for private education to have their kids be able to attend school here in America and hopefully find a job that will provide high income. Just looking back into the colonial societies, it still shows that education played a high role then as it does now.
2. How did Britian's middle classes change during the nineteenth century?
During the nineteenth century, the middle class have evolved into wealthy factory, mine owners, bankers, and merchants. The life of the middle class was benefiting the most during the industrialization. Most middle class would slowly assimilate into the aristocratic life that would buy into “country homes, obtaining seats in parliament, sending their sons to Oxford or some great university, and would accept nobility titles from Queen Victoria.” The kicker from this is how women were being treated as homemakers who would stand behind their men in all actions. By standing by their men, women would have to create an emotional haven for men from the capitalist world. Women played a huge role in playing the center of the family and carrying the respectful job of being the shopper of the family. It’s funny because women still carry the same job and responsibility from the industrialization time. Unfortunately, women are trying to break this mold of this fragile piece of furniture into the bread maker. Women are showing their education and level of skills in the work force. How is it that during the entire time of history women never grew into a dominant figure? Answer because we are not given the chance and opportunity to grow within society. On the other hand, those who were in the labor class did not get any further then working til the death. Manuel laborers suffered the most from working tremendous jobs that were overcrowded, smoky not sanitary, poor water supplies, low wages, child labor, and long hours. The labor class worked long and hard to get very little. There was a complete separation line between the rich and the poor or the middle and labor class. Once again history does not change much . The middle class will make more money and the labor class will continue to work hard and make very little. Sometimes there is always the small percent of those who are able to leave the labor class and make something out of themselves. Soon enough there will be protest that will erupt in the labor class and cause major social changes. Protest will come from change of religion, inequality and rights. Every good thing will come to a end and something new will arrive.
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