It is this force that essentially created this gap. Western nations taking valuable resources, including humans, from “third-world countries” allowed for those countries to be set back. Through economic means, the western countries underdeveloped their colonies by changing the industries to provide only raw materials. Yet, it is claimed that those countries created their own conditions and are the only ones to blame for their lack of advanced culture. Overpopulation is another idea used to blame the “third-world countries” while countries in Western Europe have a higher density.
Using material from the Item and elsewhere, assess the view that media imperialism threatens ‘the cultural identities of many countries’. Media imperialism is the view that news is dominated by the West; as the media is linked to politics because of the benefits of capitalism, the effects of the media is threatening cultural identities with this same lifestyle which theorists such as Marxists disagree with. How media imperialism is threatening, what it is doing to threaten cultural identities and the effects of it need to be looked at to assess this matter properly. First of all it is how the Media imperialism is threatening cultural identities in other countries that is important to assess. The dominance and power of the west is affecting cultures.
John Hobson, an English economist, saw imperialism as inevitable, for powers of production outpace consumption resulting in more profit for the mother country (doc 2). The United States was involved in imperialism due to the Monroe Doctrine of 1823, which made the western hemisphere an American protectorate and their victory in the Spanish-American War making them a Pacific power. Both Europe and America believed imperialism could bring them economic power and capacity. Imperialism was not strictly confined to economics; it also included the political aims of unique states. John Hobson deemed demand for foreign markets for manufacturers and investments was responsible for the adoption of Imperialism as a political policy (doc 2).
This revolution has a great impact and long-lasting implications on the countries in Latin America. In the War of Independence, Ecuador and Colombia too gained independence after battling the Spanish
Using the mercantilist system, the governments of Spain and England intervened in the trade of their respective colonies constantly in order to gain wealth. The British government regulated their colonies’ economy through government-endorsed joint-stock companies. By regulating the companies that founded the colonies, they were able to regulate much of the imports and exports of the colonies. The Spanish government, however, intervened directly into the economy by imposing laws and taxes that encouraged economic standards that were beneficial to Spain’s economy. The political systems of the Spanish viceroyalties and the British colonies varied greatly.
Pros of Western Imperialism are Most of the profits went back to industrialized nations. It allowed them to spread Christianity, and allowed new products like coffee from South America. The artistic view as well comes into play as many of the arts influenced western sculptors and painters. Modern banking systems were a stem from imperialism. Stabilized traditional countries by uniting rival people.
The new Manifest Destiny differed from the old in that it consisted of expansion to foreign areas to improve trade and contribute to the growth of the American economy; however it remained the same in that American citizens believed their reasons for expansionism were justified by God’s given right and that they were even saving the people of the territories by the spread of Anglo-Saxon values. Differing from past imperialism eras, the expansion of the 20th century dealt with foreign countries and the intervention of many foreign affairs (Doc G). The beginning of American expansion into Latin America began with a boundary dispute between Venezuela and Britain in the late 1890’s. A nervous President Cleveland threatened war with the British, who were a potential threat to America’s security with their presence in Venezuela. After this affair, America defended all of the Latin American countries and protected them under the Monroe Doctrine and the Roosevelt Corollary.
Many intellectuals during the Enlightenment explored new ideas in political economy; Adam Smith in his 1776 An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations was one of the most influential figures for the Americans. Smith admitted the mercantile system worked, yet criticized its principles. Expounding a doctrine of individualism, Smith was one of many voices stating that the economy, like the individual, should be free from detailed regulation from the state. Economic, as well as individual, self-interest and its outcome in the market should be allowed to function without state regulation. Although it was indeed approved by the First Continental Congress, the practice of mercantilism was replaced with a Smith-oriented form of liberalism in post-Revolutionary
In other words, it was the geopolitical situation that “justified” the western powers to win the “hearts and minds” of the world and to gain potential allies and keeping strategic ones. Through setting up governments and policies to suit their tastes, the western powers (largely the US) will gain client states throughout strategic regions in order to create more buffers against the communist bloc. And for the countries of the south, modernization theory was then the ideological basis of promising a better future4a- but, of course- only to the newly ruling classes that were accumulating westernization for their own benefits, and that of their own
This institutional economic view of the west presents readers the facts of a west that is not that disorderly, but disciplined; by capitalism and investors. The morale of this article is that the Hollywood images of the old west are not accurate, well-defined property rights links to wealth and prosperity, and that institutional entrepreneurs are heroes who civilize the world and even provide proper management to natural resources so that they are not