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Adversarialism and Mutuality

This recognition and recall practice is based on Chapter Four, pp. 23 - 36, of Gordon Fellman's Rambo and the Dalai Lama. Answer the following questions on the basis of Fellman's text.

Click on any of the answer letters to check against Fellman's statements in the book.

  1. Fellman suggests that we have accepted a basic underlying assumption today that winning is the point of whatever we do.

    1. True.
    2. False.

    2. Fellman states unequivocally that:

    1. Adversarialism is a stylized way of hating.

    b. A "paradigm shift" from adversarialism to mutuality would be difficult to accomplish because that isn't really the way the world works. People do not easily give up their old ideas, even when science produces evidence that tends to disprove them.

    c. Patriarchy and capitalism define two of the major dimensions of domination as it has appeared in history.