Hegemony and Racial Groups

According to Gramsci HEGEMONY is "leadership" or dominance of groups or a class in society.
A real world example of how the dominant culture is 'spontaneous consent' would be different racial groups who believe that their culture is the dominant culture. They stick together and they 'coerce' others within their culture, to believe what they believe. (To believe their beliefs). Certain members who belong to a dominant racial cultural group, such as whites, Hispanics, blacks, etc. They may discover themselves, or be discovered as "powerful and privileged". The way members, from these different racial groups, interact is considered, by others "to be directly related to issues of power or class".

An example of this example would be the Ku Klux Klan, their beliefs are that every "redneck", as they call themselves, should be part of their clan, because they feel all rednecks should be apart of what they believe. When in reality all rednecks are not the same as those that practice that type of culture. Another example of how the dominant culture is 'spontaneous consent' would be "911". This can be a world example, because this event affected the world dramatically. After this happened this country worked together to try and dominant the bad guys. People from all classes and cultures worked as one. Lower classes as well as upper classes learned how to work together.

The first example I used basically reflects with Raymond Williams excerpt. One of the three common versions, which is "a system of beliefs characteristics of a particular class or group". Also the second version which is "a system of illusory beliefs". This real world example is a choice which people have to make, which is an everyday thing, people make choices every day. whether it's choice of religion, culture, etc.