Power

In the video milgram experiment,it shows you how human beings are devoted to authority and obedience.the experiment was also testing their limit of responsiveness to authority. In other words the experiment was to check how human beings will react over the effect on punishment on learning. It was an experiment made by stanley milgram in 1963 perform again to examine how  normal people can perpatuate a very bad act simply by following orders. The person who chose to be the teacher were put to the test by being asked a series of question for them to answer. They were being trick by making them believe that each answer they answered wrong will effect the victim that chose to to be a learner in that experiment will be electricuted by the lethal eltric shock. The test was to see if they would call a stop to it,since they were told to continue they kept going. The experiment was to see how they would respond to orders.The person that was asking them questions  had some basic power over them because the people that were being examined wanted to stop,but they couldn't because they were told to keep going. Refering this experiment to my life, a lot of times because of obedience i did things that i didn't really want to do or feel like doing it at that particular moment.
         I can relate the Milgram experiment to the  reading on chapter five because it talks about power and oppression.In some ways we are being controled and yet some people dont notice it because of lack of knowledge.Oppression talks about how some people doesn't have the same power as someone elses and when peole decrease the faith of other people to be fully human. The experiment of Milgram gave us a good example,in the video it shows you that the people that were being tested wanted to stop with the expiriment,they had a choice if they really wanted to they could've just left,but because the man that was testing them kept saying to continue they felt as if they had no choice but to keep going.In some other cultures people act differently toward oppression and the power that they have. For example a lot of people that has more power then the other usualy abuse their power. In some jobs in my country the workers in that job usualy get exploited,and their's nothing they can do about it.In America most people has a limit to their power,for example,parents has a lot of power over their kids,because if the parent tell the kid to do something they have no choice but to do it. In some cases people feels like they are powerless,and it's mostly the poor that always feel like that and the mentally ill people.Another type of oppression is violence,its the most known and obvious oppression because it happens all around the world and it has been increasing.There are a lot of different type of violences,sexual violence,physical abuse,verbal abuse and economic abuse.Another form of oppression is cultural imperialism,witch a group of people in a society or culture establishing a norm. Some human beins think they got control over their life,and think cause of their belief in their society that the government doesn't have control over them. But they dont realize they are expected to be  at a certain place and certain time,if they dont get to that place at that specific time they will be in trouble,that place can be a school or job. It relates to the Milgram video because the person that was examining the people had the power to tell the people that were being tested to keep going even though they wanted to stop. through out the year peple have been opening up their eye and education has been a lot of help,education had increase a lot of student knowledge and gave them consciousness of them selves and the society they live in.