and Oceania have a reasonable or even very good education‚ but what about Africa? Most of the African countries did not even developed or progress after World War 2. I think this is mainly due to the colonization of many African countries by the European countries such as the Democratic Republic of Congo (which was colonised by Belgium and is now one of the poorest countries in the world) which has a GPD per PPP of 400 compared to Belgium who has a 100 times bigger GDP per PPP of 38‚500. As Belgium
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Before the Industrial Revolution began‚ European imperialism’s second phase hadn’t begun yet‚ the first phase that being the Age of Exploration (1500-1700). At the time China was sovereign‚ and pretty much most of India‚ as well as Japan. By the mid XIX century European economies were thoroughly industrialized and needed more coal and steel to keep up production‚ as well as other raw materials to sustain an industrial society. Hence‚ when they naturally expanded‚ this technological superiority was
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central Africa of what they needed from that land. For example‚ Berlin wanted copper‚ rubber‚ and ivory so Berlin went for land around the Congo River. The conference was held in Berlin. No Africans were invited. The rules were the European countries couldn’t claim it unless they had had set up a government including a european ruler. Another rule was that the Congo River was shared as a purpose free trading route. In the 20 years after the Berlin Conference ‚ the European powers were almost all in control
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better future in their mind. The main focus of the Sven Lindqvist’s argument in "Exterminate All the Brutes"‚ explaining historical events in the past such as genocides in Africa during Europe’s dark reign of attempted colonization. The argument presented is that all humans have done is exterminate the lower races or “the brutes”‚ then try to justify this by backing their actions up with scientific theories and reasoning. Lindqvists even uses the ideas of several scientists
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Racism consists of both prejudice and discrimination based in social perceptions of biological differences between peoples. It often takes the form of social actions‚ practices or beliefs‚ or political systems that consider different races to be ranked as inherently superior or inferior to each other‚ based on presumed shared inheritable traits‚ abilities‚ or qualities. It may also hold that members of different races should be treated differently.[1][2][3] Among the questions about how to define
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“EXTERMINATE ALL THE BRUTES” Sven Lindqvist’s “Exterminate all the Brutes” explores the idea that genocides have been deeply rooted in European thinking over the last century. It is written in the form of a travel dairy and a historical examination of European racism over the past two centuries. Lindqvist argues that the harrowing racism that led to the Holocaust in the twentieth century had its roots in European colonial policy of the preceding century. The act of genocide itself is not a new
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Many things had changed during and after colonial administrations around the world. Colonization had a huge impact on the economic system in a large number of different countries. Some countries have developed a strong international trading partnership after the colonial period; however‚ many still are living under the poverty‚ violence‚
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Recently a well known singer‚ Taylor Swift‚ unintentionally glorified colonization in her music video “Wildest Dreams”. Through portraying a Hollywood movie couple filming in a rural African setting‚ one can not only spot bare land without any hint of nearby human existence‚ but also large variety exotic animals. In spite of
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Sape. La Sape is a social movement occurs in Congo who devote their income to purchasing fine clothing and accessories‚ assuring they innovate the morale of their neighborhoods by being an example of couture and courtesy to others. Congo is well known as poverty country and interminable with civil conflicts. This is not the way cease La Sape “dream” to express their lavish apparel. The story of La Sape began when French colonization entered to Congo. A lot of Congolese immigrants traveled to French
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parts in the novel that hint at the opposite and that prove that the context of the novel can be seen from more than one angle. This can mainly be perceived in the life of Mr. Kurtz‚ as his descent into madness can be seen as an allegory for the colonization and destruction of the African continent and its people by the Europeans. Because just as Kurtz was a perfectly sane and normal man before he went into the African wilderness so were also the European nations very civilized before they came to
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