The first step of globalisation is colonisation. When looked at the beginnings of colonisation, however, the vice versa of the sentence is the case. The first step of colonisation is globalisation. As the European countries started discovering new lands and grew accustomed to thinning their borderlines for trade, they gradually found out about a more profitable way, that is, colonising wherever they found weaker than themselves. Only when the colonised nations woke up and fought for their own borders the colonisation came to an end. Notwithstanding, they had already been overly-exposed to Europe’s so called “civilised” cultures, and this gave birth to a hybrid-culture phenomenon. Thus begun globalisation. Whether it is neo-colonisation, or something beyond that, it is still questionable. After all, the most ongoing modern wars are psychological ones, and destroying cultures under the name of globalisation is what invading a country looks like nowadays.
To understand the role of international trading in the expanding of colonisation, Joseph Addison’s essay from The Spectator, “The Royal Exchange” (No. 69, 1711) is a very helpful text. The text simply describes a financial institution’s international composition. The first of the signs of a desire to dominate the trading world is seen here, starting with the words “my vanity as I am an Englishman” (Addison 2650). However, the rest of the sentence “to see so rich an Assembly of Countrymen and Foreigners consulting together upon the private Business of Mankind” softens the expression, and gives a sense of modern globalisation. The Spectator doesn’t seem to be leaning on the binaries found on the group of people in the Royal Exchange. Therefore while giving hints of the feeling of su...
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...balisation can turn into colonisation with the spark of a desire for power. It promotes the idea of globalisation and sheds light to the situation found three centuries later in the present day, for globalisation is a post-colonial phenomena as well as the spark that started colonialism. It is true the age of colonies are over, but its ghost still continues to haunt the former colonies under the name of globalisation, especially those which were mostly exploited at the time.
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Lisa Lowe’s introduction on the word “globalization” was interesting as it reminded me of the readings and lectures regarding colonization of the United States. Globalization is described conditions that increased economic, social, and political interdependence among people. The article allows for comparisons to be made with eighteenth century America. For example, the arrival of English colonists led to a change in the North American landscape. This could also be described as an invasion of native land as colonists felt the land belonged to them. Similarly, Globalization also mentions American invasion in the context of the conflicts against Afghanistan and Iraq. In addition, both seventeenth and twentieth century America appear to some effect
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Today colonialism is still active, known as Neocolonialism, which has devastating effects on global cultural groups. To begin, the term colonialism is defined in the dictionary as “control by one country over another and its people”. Throughout history colonialism has confounded and damaged numerous cultures and people. Indigenous people have undergone a series of massive modifications to their culture as well as spiritual beliefs and morals and obligations they’ve held since before the first coming of Western cultures. In regards to this, there are many concerns of loss of culture among several different groups.
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In his online lecture about the appearance and further development of the age of imperialism, Paul Sargent focuses mainly on the motivations and justifications for imperialism and the difference between the notions of colonialism and imperialism throughout the course of the world history. Moreover, as the historian is convinced, only the correct and deep understanding of the difference between these two crucial historical periods in the world history may enable the society to put the historical things and events in the right context. First of all, it should be clarified that the era of colonialism came the first and then was preceded by the imperialism. Sargent describes the age of colonialism as “the age of discovery” which actually started with Christopher Columbus’s
Colonialism was a concept of superiority of one territory over another; it was a concept that originated centuries ago. Colonialism had been put into action throughout a long line of history and did not end after World War II in 1945. Even with resistance and efforts from independent states after the war, colonialism did not disappear and continued as a dominant system. It remained and changed its form, resulted in the process of globalization, which continued to control over newly independent states following World War II. Globalization, a form of colonialism, maintained power for the system over states or regions through economic terms with the development of the World Bank, and its derivation of structural adjustments. This financial institution was formed and contributed to colonialism; it assisted in the economic affairs of colonized nation(s). Along with class, professor Manfred B. Steger's book, Globalization: A Very Short Introduction, and I.B. Logan and Kidane Mengisteab's article, "IMF – World Bank Adjustment and Structural Transformation in Sub-Saharan Africa," discussed the indirect rule of colonial powers through globalization.