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The Pros And Cons Of Imperialism

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Imperialism is a policy in which a powerful country increase more of its power by gaining control over other country, especially the powerless nations. Throughout the historical globalization, the world was a battle of power and contentment. It was a battle that leads to torture and bloodshed. This battle does not affect only the ones with power but also the powerless such as the slave trade that happened between the Africans and the British Empire. The Africans does not have any power to fight against the British Empire of slave trading and the betrayal of African people to their own people. The world has a lot to offer: land, animals, and resources to used for social and economic purposes. The world has a finite of resources, as the source …show more content…

Imperialism is the justifiable, natural process where the powerful take from the powerless.” Is Imperialism really justifiable? Is Imperialism really a natural process where the powerful takes over a powerless? Imperialism, for the long term killed millions of people who has no power to protect themselves from the arms of a powerful nation. It is true that it happens naturally because everyone is not equal. One is always higher than the other. Nations either become stronger or they get weaker. The powerful country has all the materials they needed to become much stronger and more wealthy, however the powerless nations with their exploited resources became much weaker. “This process has even been known to benefit both groups.” Do the powerful country, such as the British Empire, benefit? Absolutely. Do the powerless nations such as the people from Congo, benefit? No. The ideology of this source is that whether hegemony benefits both groups, hegemony is best for everyone, which is wrong. The European racist ideologies may agree to this source that Hegemony is best for everyone for they have all the materials they needed to be more powerful. However, people either lost their lives, forcibly removed from their homes or they get to be traded as slaves because of this

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