To Live And A Dry White Season Analysis

The two films, To Live and A Dry White Season, only depicted two of the repressive regimes that that took place in the last century. However, there were many other governments and government systems that were very oppressive during their reign. One such system worth noting is Prime Minister Fidel Castro’s Cuban Communist Party in Cuba. The History Channel describes Castro’s rule as, “Marxist-Leninist… he limited the amount of land a person could own, abolished private business and presided over housing and consumer goods shortages. With political and economic options so limited, hundreds of thousands of Cubans… left Cuba.” Being a socialist highly restrictive dictatorship. Castro’s Communist Party is as infamous as the Apartheid and Chinese …show more content…
In China, the Qing dynasty had created a large class disparity in terms of wealth, leading to high poverty and starvation rates of the Chinese people. In an attempt to take advantage of the large number of possible forces and extreme nationalism, Mao Zedong lead a revolution under the promise of an equal class system and economic prosperity. In combination with many other tactics, such as wearing peasant clothing to be relatable to peasants, Mao created an army from the ground up. Much like Mao, Castro’s army was a peasant and working class people. As President Batista came into power, Castro formed a rebellion group of those opposed to his rule. Encyclopedia Britannica furthers, “Castro began to organize a rebel force for the task in 1953… With the help of growing numbers of revolutionary volunteers throughout the island… Castro had come to power with the support of most Cuban city dwellers on the basis of his promises to restore the 1940 constitution, create an honest administration, reinstate full civil and political liberties, and undertake moderate reforms.” Both created their powerful military and political basis on the promise of a better life for those stricken with inequality and poverty. Furthermore, once they obtained power little of what they promised came true. Mao Zedong created a communist state …show more content…
It is because of this that acknowledging them as a part of human history is all the more necessary. History is profoundly important for society to understand, it is so important they the modern education devotes as much time to it as it does to the honing of the skills of reading and mathematics. It is put on the same level of importance as what is believed to be necessary to be function within society at a most basic level. Any adult would be expect to read and solve equations, the same must be for these atrocities. History is not given its own course without reason either, as history is key to understanding the future of humans. Where it’s going and why it’s going there are questions that can only be answered by knowing, what happened before. Forgetting a part of history, no matter how recent or gory, is as foolish as not teaching a class of students how to subtract. Coexistence is not brought about by silence, nor is progression. This is because the only thing silence does is allow us to observe the future, not alter it. For if you ignore discrimination, or an oppressive system all that happens is that you allow for hatred to continue silently, like a ticking time bomb eventually it will go off. When Germany suffered its post-WWI depression and used the jewish people as a scapegoat, there was silence. Silence broke out into propaganda, propaganda into riots