Reading Response week 7 Anderson CH2 Admittedly I have bias on this issue. I found the idea of a parallel reality easy to relate to having many similarities from reservation life to the town of Los Flores such as distrust of outsiders, fight for recognition, and knowledge of a different history. I have found this concept to be difficult for some people to grasp or their take on it is very different from mine. Chalk it up to abysmal history lessons in high school and framing of the situation over the years. There is a deal of culture clash and resistance from assimilation from the peasants of El Salvador as they resist the military imposing their values on their way of life. The communities that support the Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional(FMLN) live in a communal socialistic society sustaining themselves by peasant farming and church help. The aid the community gives is fueled by the past inhumane and unjust treatment at the hands of the El Salvador government giving the people of Los Flores a shared history as a rallying point. The government’s overreactions such as killing the people near Sumpul River as a response to the guerrilla movement was counterproductive to their goal of having unified control of the people. It is acts like these that lend legitimacy to causes of the FMLN and the Burmese movement Karen National Union (KNU). Josh Logan
In the parallel reality chapter of Guerrillas the two revolutionary movements had very close similarities to the ones discussed in class the last week. The fact that both the resistance armies ended up causing the government to over react to their resistance with mass killings and oppression. In the case of the Karen in Burma it resulted in the growth of the resistance movement coming from the oppressed students. I can't help but feel incredibly lucky to be born in a place where these struggles for basic human rights don't happen. It is something that is taken for granted by too many around the world. -Mark Peterman
The government of El Salvador used military force to try and regulate the inner workings within the state itself; which of course, included the citizens of El Salvador would come together as a community and resist the military power compelled upon them by the government's command to do so. As discussed in detail within chapter two, is the breakdown for the causes of civil war. The general argument made to support the concept of a state having a proneness to war which causes things like rebel movements to take place and expand with time. Guerrilla movements are the most surreal concept to try and imagine when someone is unfamiliar with what that actually entails and looks like. Yet, the tragic that is constantly reminding the rest of the world how incredibly lucky everyone who doesn't face civil warfare in their home state within their lifetime, are some lucky individuals.
“Civil war is development in reverse.” Sometimes there is just a pattern of hostility and violence within a particular region where the only way the people know how to deal with conflict, is to fight. Political scientists have come up with a consensus theory regarding civil war and how prone one state is in comparison to another. There is approximately a 14% risk that low income states must take caution to the possibility. This typically concerns the young men of the region, who may be kidnapped or forced to join the rebel group or army because the rebel groups can then manipulate the young, untarnished boys the beliefs of the guerrilla lifestyle. An illusion many of the outside world has imagined civil war to be based upon is the false concept found in ethnicstrife. The concerns of the rebel groups are what generate the counter-action of the rebels trying to make their beliefs be recognized by the opposing side of people or government.
The example from the reading I wanted to make note of is the historical account for the Normans who were French-speaking vikings who decided to kill 98% of the English elite population. Along with the massacre, the Normans the their land, servitude (AKA slavery) for two centuries and during all this time was many civil wars.
I find it hard to believe that you can live a normal life as a guerrilla, but some can. The people that are marrying and having children seem to do very well. Although there is always a different side to the situation. Some of the freedom fighters live in frustration and find that marriage and love life is inappropriate for the time. These people like many others may die in combat never having been married or even been with a woman. These people give the greatest sacrifice for there cause, leaving everything behind to fight. Cory Payne
Reading Response week 7 Anderson CH2
ReplyDeleteAdmittedly I have bias on this issue. I found the idea of a parallel reality easy to relate to having many similarities from reservation life to the town of Los Flores such as distrust of outsiders, fight for recognition, and knowledge of a different history. I have found this concept to be difficult for some people to grasp or their take on it is very different from mine. Chalk it up to abysmal history lessons in high school and framing of the situation over the years.
There is a deal of culture clash and resistance from assimilation from the peasants of El Salvador as they resist the military imposing their values on their way of life. The communities that support the Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional(FMLN) live in a communal socialistic society sustaining themselves by peasant farming and church help. The aid the community gives is fueled by the past inhumane and unjust treatment at the hands of the El Salvador government giving the people of Los Flores a shared history as a rallying point. The government’s overreactions such as killing the people near Sumpul River as a response to the guerrilla movement was counterproductive to their goal of having unified control of the people. It is acts like these that lend legitimacy to causes of the FMLN and the Burmese movement Karen National Union (KNU).
Josh Logan
In the parallel reality chapter of Guerrillas the two revolutionary movements had very close similarities to the ones discussed in class the last week. The fact that both the resistance armies ended up causing the government to over react to their resistance with mass killings and oppression. In the case of the Karen in Burma it resulted in the growth of the resistance movement coming from the oppressed students. I can't help but feel incredibly lucky to be born in a place where these struggles for basic human rights don't happen. It is something that is taken for granted by too many around the world.
ReplyDelete-Mark Peterman
The government of El Salvador used military force to try and regulate the inner workings within the state itself; which of course, included the citizens of El Salvador would come together as a community and resist the military power compelled upon them by the government's command to do so. As discussed in detail within chapter two, is the breakdown for the causes of civil war. The general argument made to support the concept of a state having a proneness to war which causes things like rebel movements to take place and expand with time. Guerrilla movements are the most surreal concept to try and imagine when someone is unfamiliar with what that actually entails and looks like. Yet, the tragic that is constantly reminding the rest of the world how incredibly lucky everyone who doesn't face civil warfare in their home state within their lifetime, are some lucky individuals.
ReplyDelete“Civil war is development in reverse.” Sometimes there is just a pattern of hostility and violence within a particular region where the only way the people know how to deal with conflict, is to fight. Political scientists have come up with a consensus theory regarding civil war and how prone one state is in comparison to another. There is approximately a 14% risk that low income states must take caution to the possibility. This typically concerns the young men of the region, who may be kidnapped or forced to join the rebel group or army because the rebel groups can then manipulate the young, untarnished boys the beliefs of the guerrilla lifestyle. An illusion many of the outside world has imagined civil war to be based upon is the false concept found in ethnicstrife. The concerns of the rebel groups are what generate the counter-action of the rebels trying to make their beliefs be recognized by the opposing side of people or government.
The example from the reading I wanted to make note of is the historical account for the Normans who were French-speaking vikings who decided to kill 98% of the English elite population. Along with the massacre, the Normans the their land, servitude (AKA slavery) for two centuries and during all this time was many civil wars.
Emily Crane
I find it hard to believe that you can live a normal life as a guerrilla, but some can. The people that are marrying and having children seem to do very well. Although there is always a different side to the situation. Some of the freedom fighters live in frustration and find that marriage and love life is inappropriate for the time. These people like many others may die in combat never having been married or even been with a woman. These people give the greatest sacrifice for there cause, leaving everything behind to fight.
ReplyDeleteCory Payne