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The Impact Of Globalization And Globalization

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The expansion and globalization of modern, international corporations and the actions of some powerful individuals are affecting the indigenous people of the lands they invade and deface for the “greater good” of mankind. Whole tribes and ways of life are being eradicated to make way for hydroelectric dams, mines, million-acre mega farms, canals, and bridges. These people are left with two options: to fight for their sacred land, or to leave and let these massive foreign projects destroy everything they once knew. The culture of these people is also being transformed in the process. Natives of these lands are moved into small reservation-like areas and are left to adapt or perish by themselves. As modern society requires more and more raw …show more content…

Its dripping concrete was totally out of place, completely unnatural and incompatible with the landscape”(Perkins xxii). Canals are also built for the growing of crops like rice, corn, and soybeans. Natives of these areas can do little but watch as their land is dug up and plowed over to make room for thousands of miles of farmland, whose yield isn’t even being grown for their benefit. The food grown in these occupied areas is shipped off to Saudi Arabia, America, and Europe to feed an ever-growing population. The spokespeople for these mass farms claim that they are doing the human race a favor, saying that this is for the “greater good;” saving the world from a potential food shortage. But at what cost does this “favor” come? People are witnessing their entire livelihood, their land being torn apart before their eyes, and their government is doing nothing to help. These indigenous people are swept to the side and left to fend for themselves without a clue how to move forward with their daily lives. Meanwhile, their land is used to create huge farms for exporting food across the world: “[The Saudi’s are] digging a 20 mile canal from the dam to irrigate rice paddies. Once [the farm] is watered…[they] want to expand to at least 620,000 acres, to grow sunflowers and corn”(Pearce Introduction). As these farms extend out and occupy more land, more people are

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