What Were The Benefits Of American Imperialism

Imperialism was beneficial for the Europeans. Imperialism benefited them because sanitation and education improved. The population had started to grow and transportation had started to develop. However, imperialism was damaging for Africans because they had been forced into labor. Men and women had different jobs. The British had disrupted the lands of the African and were put under their control which had resulted in people losing their lives.
Europeans benefited from imperialism in various ways. Hospitals, schools, and factories were built and that had helped people that lived in China because that created more jobs. Industrialization marked a change in the way Europeans saw themselves against others. Europeans saw their religion as superior

and if you weren’t a Christian then you were a heathen. Nonetheless, Europeans had adopted many ideas and techniques of more advanced societies. They had unlocked the secrets of nature, created a society of unpredictable wealth, and had used both of those things to produce unsurpassed military power. The British had brought political stability and order to man African colonies. When they were in control they put in efforts to improve the colonies and in result education and sanitation had been improved. This had increased the average life expectancy.
Although the Europeans benefited from imperialism, Africans did not.

When African land and independence was overtaken by the British they were immediately put under their indirect control. Most of the time the natives fought the British in battle as a way to defend their way of life, but many of the people that had attacked did not succeed and ended in them losing their lives. With the control of the British, Africans had been forced to work and were starved. But private companies in the Congo had operated under the authority of the state. Villagers had been forced to collect rubber, which would then be put to use as bicycle and automobile tires. A refugee had described the horrors as, and I quote, “We were always in the forest to find the rubber vines, to go without food, and our women had to give up cultivating the fields and gardens. Then we starved...We begged the white man to leave us alone, saying we could get no more rubber, but the white men and their soldiers said “‘Go. You are only beasts yourselves….’” When we failed and our rubber was short, the soldiers came to our towns and killed us. Many were shot, some had their ears cut off; others were tied up with ropes around their necks and taken away” (Strayer and Nelson

803).
However. In my opinion, imperialism was more damaging to the societies that had experienced it. For example, in East Africa, the education was limited and even if people had been well-educated Europeans were reluctant to allow Africans and Asians to enter higher ranks.
Imperialism was damaging to many of the societies. Many lives had been lost as well as, their self-determination. Racism and forced labor had been set heavily when lands were disrupted. The conditions in which people had been living in weren’t good because children, women, and men had been starving.