When a child is born he knows little about the world his born into. It’s possible for one childhood environment to shape many aspect of a person life and the choices this particular person makes. This ideology fit the life of Nelson Mandela and he could be used as perfect example. In regards to Mandela the parallel between his life, family and political choices can be linked back to his childhood. Considering the details of Nelson Mandela’s life I want to argue that his childhood environment prepared him to choose the pursuit of politics over his family at the young age than we expected. Mandela’s childhood fashioned his political views.
In order for us to understand this ideology, his choice, we need to really need to go back in the book to examine the childhood of Nelson Mandela. We also need to look at his identity. Nelson Mandela was a local political leader in South Africa. During his time there was a heavy presence of British colonizer whom rules and institutions dominated the society of South Africa. He said “The education I received was a British education, in which British ideas, British culture, British institution, were automatically assume to be superior. There was no such thing as African culture." (Long Walk to Freedom chapter 2). This show how much powerful and influential the British were in South Africa. …show more content…
(Long Walk to freedom chapter 11). This is acts are clearly act of discrimination against the black in South Africa which Nelson sough to fight
In order for us to understand this ideology, his choice, we need to really need to go back in the book to examine the childhood of Nelson Mandela. We also need to look at his identity. Nelson Mandela was a local political leader in South Africa. During his time there was a heavy presence of British colonizer whom rules and institutions dominated the society of South Africa. He said “The education I received was a British education, in which British ideas, British culture, British institution, were automatically assume to be superior. There was no such thing as African culture." (Long Walk to Freedom chapter 2). This show how much powerful and influential the British were in South Africa. …show more content…
(Long Walk to freedom chapter 11). This is acts are clearly act of discrimination against the black in South Africa which Nelson sough to fight