India+Present+Day

>> Mohandas Gandhi || >> || Lifespan >> October 2, 1869- January 30, 1948 || Title: Local Leader of Protest against British || >> || Country/region: >> India || Years in Power || >> |||| Political, Social, & Economic Conditions Prior to Leaders Gaining Power || >> |||| Ideology, Motivation, Goals: >>  >> |||| Significant Actions & events During Term of Power || >> || Short-Term effects:
 * 1) The Ntionalist Assualt on the European colonial Order
 * 2) Because the Europeans were fighting wars against each other, there was little time to protect themselves in the colonial claims.
 * 3) And colonies provided the largest availible resources to supply a warring nation nation with food and essentials.
 * 4) And this was the first time India was allowed o fight other Europeans, who have long dominated their nation, and in the end have gained self confidence to push back attempts at colonizing efforts by previous dominators.
 * 5) First uprisings in India were more common because of the time they had being colonized.
 * 6) annd just to stress, other nations to were rebelling such as egypt and etc. giving major difficulty to control uprisings all over the globe.
 * 7) The national congress party was an elite-centered base of eliteindian and british officials who made known the greivances by the Government, but it was small and supported majorly british-loving officials rather then the oprressed mass.
 * 1) Social Foundations of a Mass Movement
 * 2) Because India was so large and the population also large, there had been many disruptions in the past, and there were substantial amount of members who participated in nationalistic acts
 * 3) Many of the elite Indians were angry at the British for their indecent favoritism to British corporations.
 * 4) <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Also the payments of being colonized for good government costed the Indians a lot in tributes, too much.
 * 5) <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Also larger corporations gave power to Indian natives to hold onto the last colonial possession it had.
 * 6) <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">And the shortages of food and the British being indifferent to the shortcomings led to major national revolt.
 * 1) <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Rise of militant Nationalism
 * 2) <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Because nationalistic leaders wanted more recruits, they appealed to the religion, Hinduism for help. Especially BG Tilak who promoted restoration.
 * 3) <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">British communalists, or terrorists also presented powerful response, though not many people supported a violent way to approach, terrorists did lead to young revolutionaires.
 * 4) <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">And the Morley Minto reforms provided a shift to educated fighting rather than warfare.
 * 1) <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The emergance of Gandhi and the Spread of Nationalist Struggle
 * 2) <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Montagu-Chelmsford refrosm of 1919 increased powers of lesgilators,and placed administration of India under Indian control.
 * 3) <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Rowlatt Act placed restrictions on Indian civil rights such as freedom of press and disturbed Indian Rights
 * 4) <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Mohandas Gandhi became a leader of protests against the British overlords.
 * 1) <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The Winning of Independence in South and Southeast Asia
 * 2) <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The British wanted help during World War II, but Indian leaders in Congress said they would help only if they get power over their own people back, the British said no.
 * 3) <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">the only people however who helped were the Muslim league lead by Muhammad Ali Jinnah as desire for a seperate Muslim state in India was increasing, and helpedd become a decolonizing force in India.
 * 4) <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Thus in the summer of 1947, British seperated India into Pakistan, making Jinnah leader of it.
 * 5) <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">And as a result, following countries lost their dependence on Britain and gained freedom, Burma, Ceylon.
 * 1) <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">|||| Name of Leader:
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The use of violence was spreading, injuring many
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">India has still not gained its independence, no matter how many times it tries to negotiate terms with British overlords
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Morley-Minto reforms and Montagu-Chlmsford reforms were placed in India but people continue to protest
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The British had promised to give significant power to the Indians but in the end, they had been duped.
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Nationalism was growing to extremes
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Gandhi based his ideas on satyagrapha or truth force, to weaken British Control without military intervention.
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">He was persistent, and had confidence in his actions, he believed in moral purpose
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Using his knowledge of law and hindu, in addition to his knowledge of British weaknesses and strengths.
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Gandhi wanted to speak the truth and advocated to do the same
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">||
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">negotiated with the British where middle class people of India could be educated
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Quit India Movement where Gandhi advocated a peaceful movement for the British to let go of India
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">During the Partition of India Gandhi struggled for the emancipation of the “untouchables”
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">In the Quit India Movement Gandhi called off the struggle and help set free 100k political prisoners
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">At the time of the Salt March he used peaceful ways to get rid of salt taxes
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">People from all over India went to listen to Ganhdi
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Gave people national confidence
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Weakened British Control

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 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-left: 3em; padding-left: 3em; padding-left: 3em; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Garnered Indian nationalism to support future claims
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-left: 3em; padding-left: 3em; padding-left: 3em; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Ultimately freed India
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-left: 3em; padding-left: 3em; padding-left: 3em; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Peaceful protests eventually influenced the Muslim League to avoid violent repercusions.
 * 1) <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-left: 3em; padding-left: 3em; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"> What is an Identity?
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"> An identity is how one is associaited with being, what one considers themselves.
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"> How are our identities formed?
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"> Indentities are formed in many ways, from birth, from development, and from actions.
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"> How does our identity influence the way we see ourselves and others?
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"> Identities are labels to a prejudice society. We use identity as a preemptive attempt to figure another out, and usually end up with racist comments or prejudice models
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"> What is conformity?
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"> Conformity is changing into something/someone because of popular appeal.
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"> How does a society decide who belongs and who does not?
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"> They don't; but some do so because of one's actions of decisions, and if they don't follow a set of guidelines they cannot be part of this society
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"> How do our attitudes and influence our thinking?
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"> Our attitudes and beliefs affect us through changing who we are and what we will become. It gives us the mindset to do what is possible and what isn't.
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"> What does it mean to belong to a group?
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"> It means to have a label on yourself. It means to associate oneself with another group based on their merits, and not ones own, it means being a predefined label
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"> How is membership defined and by whom is membership defined?
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">membership is defined by the group leader, and is often defined through actions, apparel, or any other consistant effort.
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