Allan Grank García Ramos
World Studies essay
Imperialism
In this essay, I will give the pros and cons of imperialism. This is an ideology based in be superior on many nations, some people thought this would be a good idea because of the economic growth, under imperialism, stronger nations attempt to create empires by dominating weaker nations economically, politically, culturally, or military. The reason why this imperialism grew was because of economic factors, nationalist factors, military factors, and humanist factors. Well, the people who disagreed with imperialism were called anti-imperialist
Imperialism is the total domination of the political, economic, or cultural aspects or a nation. Imperial colonization has been occurring sense the beginning of time. In the political aspect the motives were based on a nation's desire to gain power, to compete with other European countries, to expand territory, to exercise military force, to gain prestige by winning colonies, and to boost national pride and …show more content…
In some cases the identification of a national culture is combined with a negative view of other races or cultures. If Nationalism emphasizes collective identity a people must be autonomous, united, and express a single national culture, the most powerful nation began to think that it should exist an specific social hierarchy and then the imperialism started as a more structured ideology.
Religious reasons also propelled imperialism; religious motives included the desire to spread Christianity, to protect their missionaries in other lands, to spread their values and moral beliefs, to educate peoples of other cultures, and to end slave trade in any country.
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