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The Global Implications Of Colonialism

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“Undeniable Truth: The Global Implications of Colonialism” European colonialism had a “wider coverage than other colonialisms” and as such, it takes into consideration the amount of influence that it dealt to the rest of the world. With the beginnings of capitalism in Europe due to the industrial revolution and with the help of colonialism as the medium of spreading the ideologies which greatly influenced the world “we” live in today. Furthermore, the rise of racial hierarchy and systems came forth from the division of labour within Europe that later spread and applied unto Africa which reflects the reason why discrimination and classifications are apparent when people view other people from across …show more content…

(Heywood, 2011) With capitalism’s socio-economic ideals and tendencies that supports private property; the importance, independence, and significance of the market; and the growing reliance of waged labour in shaping the economy of a state was ingrained in the processes through which colonialism was done (State model). (Comaroff, 1989) On a much related note, Post-colonialists interprets the effects of colonialism as the way Europeans “subverted indigenous cultures which led to the spread of soulless consumerism.” Consumerism on which the capitalist ideas are founded on have been one of the greatest implications of colonialism on many parts of the world in such a way that most states of today are promoting and advocating the use of democracy and with it, the use of capitalism in which an economy is built on. The decolonization of states after WWII in which Western ideals were still ingrained to the states that was colonized despite the fact that they are already independent states—instilled Eurocentric ideals—is due to the effects of colonialism in such a …show more content…

Yet after so many years of reading and learning about the “un-sugarcoated” version of what happened in the process of which colonialism was done, and the “real” state of the colonized, it occurred to me that colonialism wasn’t at all good in every sense of the word. It occurred to me that “we” would have been better off without it, and that it begs the question if “we” could have made cultural and technological advances by “ourselves.” “We” could condemn the colonizers about the atrocities that they had committed but what will happen then? “Our” respective and pre-colonized cultures wouldn’t come back overnight as the cultural bonds of European and “our” own are so intertwined with each other. I suppose what “we” could get out of this is capitalism and the religion that they had instilled in “our” societies, let “us” use this for “our” own economic and moral advantages in such a way that we benefit from what they had brought to us for it would mean that culture as colonized as it is and was can still adapt with the given settings through which it would

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