Legacies of Historical Globalization

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Contemporary society has done enough to respond to the legacies of historical globalization
Criteria: What acts have actually been made to respond to the legacies of historical globalization? How have these effects been made in trying to respond to historical globalization? What has changed since then? What has not changed?
Position: I disagree that contemporary society has done enough to respond to the legacies of historical globalization for many reasons.
Reasons: Some of the reasons I think this statement is not true are, even thought society has improved since historical times, society still has many problems and is nowhere near being a perfect world and fixing every flaw. We see and hear about people around us getting hurt everyday from various issues that have not been solved, yet we have not made a serious effort in order to stop issues that are happening around us every day, if human beings tried harder to make change there is the possibility that society as a whole would become better place to live for everyone. If everyone honestly wanted to end all problems in the world, there should be a greater effort put in to stop them.
Examples: Slavery; slavery is still playing an active role in today’s society, in fact, Kevin Bales, the lead researcher of global slavery index, recently discovered that despite the fact that slavery today is illegal in all places, there are still 29.8 million people involved in hidden slavery right now. Most likely the majority of hidden slavery is happening underground and in places where we cannot see. A few days ago there were three women discovered in a home who were forced into the act of slavery for 30 years. Although many people may think that slavery has been an inactive part of society f...

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