Third World Countries Analysis

Third world countries have the name underdeveloped countries, but it is better to call them over-exploited countries. Developed countries are implementing several foreign policies and trading blocks that have nothing to develop the less developed countries; on the contrary, they exploit the development and block growth in many ways such as imperialism, globalization, and capitalism. These practices of developed nations prevent third world countries from development. The countries that have advanced technologies and standard economical status are considered as the developed countries. Besides their growth, these countries have started taking advantage of third world countries that are also less fortunate in terms of economy and technology.

Natural resources of the developing countries are being stolen and misused by other powerful nations for the welfare of their own. The natives only get misery and suffering. Thus, Rubert Gajadhar, managing director of the St. Lucia Banana Growers Association, rightly said to United States for its unfair trade delegation: “You are conducting the worst kind of economic warfare against a defenseless people. You take away our bananas and leave us with no alternative but misery, strife, and suffering” (Larmer, 1). In the novel “Heart of Darkness,” Joseph Conrad depicts the picture of Africa, which is one of the less developed countries, as a place where “the earth seemed unearthly” (Conrad, 32). The novel deals with the suppression of nonwhites in the name of globalization. Even though the term “imperialism” does not exist, however, the concept has been followed cleverly by the powerful nations in the name of globalization. Joseph Conrad discusses the imperialistic attitude of whites toward nonwhite...

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...dea has changed as Karl Marx considers this as an exploitation and accretion of wealth through corporate citizenship. This idea is not neo-liberalism that has the actual meaning behind the idea of globalization, but imperialism.

Capitalists consider Africans as mere objects in a situation when Marlow names his helmsman as machinery and when Kurtz refers to his African mistress as statuary. The novel “Heart of Darkness” takes part in an oppression and suppression of native Africans who are nonwhites that is much more menacing and difficult to rectify than the ill-treatment of Kurtz or the Ivory trading company’s men. Marlow thinks Africans as a mere human backdrop where he can play existential and philosophical struggles. Their exoticism and existence change his self-examination. This act of degrading people is harder to discover than racism and colonial violence.