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Okay... My history final is tomorrow and I have been cramming all night. I need help with this essay question because it is worth a lot of points. Please help... here it is...
The age of imperialism played a huge role in shaping the current global political situation. What are the long term effects of this event in: South America, Latin America, Southeast Asia, Africa, and Indonesia. Focus on how colonialism left a wake of instability in each region.
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Well, you must not be paying attention in class, because the teacher must have gone over this, but this is your lucky day. I haven't visited this site in a long time, though I have been a registered advisor for over a year. I am very interested in this subject. So here go's:
During the age of imprerialism, stronger nations like the US and Great Britain, colonized underdeveloped countries like Inida, the Phillipines, and many countries in Latin America. The governments, or multi-national corporations from the developed countries set up bases where they plundered the developing country of it's resources, like oil, copper, diamonds, and natural gas. Plantations were set up for growing sugar cane, tobacco, rubber and native inhabitants of these poor nations were forced into working these plantations, or paid very low wages. Native people who lived on or near natural resources were thrown off their land, and were not compensated for their loss. If they rebelled, many of them were killed.
THe leaders of these small developing nations were bribed and corrupted so they would turn a blind eye when their own people were thrown off their lands or killed, in the name of profits and capitalism.
How does this relate to what is going on today?
These people have LONG memories. The stories are passed down from generation to generation. They resent that they have been thrown off their land, made to work as slaves or for very low wages, or perhaps family members who fought the plunder of their lands were killed. They blame the United States, Great Britain, and the many large companies that came a took over their lands. Like ALL of the large oil companies. Conoco, British Petroleum, Exxon, Shell, Etc. Etc.
In many cases, the corrupt leaders of these countries signed laws "privatising" their natural resources: like oil, and natural gas, and gold and copper and diamonds" and by doing this gave control of them over to Large corporations from the US and Great Britian. So the companies make huge profits, while the people who owned and lived on the land, DIE!
While is some cases, we have left these countries, like when Great Britain gave India it's independence, still in some cases we are still there. Like in Saudi Arabia, we still have 40,000 troops on the ground there to protect the international oil companies. And in Nigeria where companies like Exxon and Shell and Conoco have their own mercenary soldiers to protect their oil platforms and workers. They shoot to kill. And the native people just suffer.
The United States and Great Britain is hated in most of the developing nations in the world. We stong arm nations out of their natural resources just so the corporations can make a profit.
THis is the MAIN reason for the Iraq war. Don't believe what anyone else tells you. The US is trying to force the Iraqi Oil Law down the throats of the Iraqi people and their parliment. This law will give 70% of control and profits from the production of oil, in Iraq to THE OIL COMPANIES. Not to the Iraqi people.
I hope this helps. You can check this by reading a book called " Confessions of an Economic Hit Man" or gooogle the workds IRAQI OIL LAW.
I think what your teacher is trying to tell you guys is that things have not changed. We, being the US and Great Britain, and multi-national corporations are still trying to control everying thing and everyone in this world all in the name of profits. Millions of people have died because of it. And now we are all tired of it. We want everyone to play fair.
Michele
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