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Negative Effects Of Imperialism

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Many nations wanted to expand their territory and gain control of natural resources that are nonnative. As a result, Imperialism began in the late nineteenth century due to economic, political, and social forces including the Industrial Revolution, trade, and military conditions. Imperialism is the domination over an undeveloped, less industrialized country by a stronger, more industrialized nation. Although Imperialism has shaped the culture and customs all over the world, it had both negative and positive impacts throughout imperialized nations. The Perspectives on imperialism varied widely between those who imposed it and those who were affected by it. The imperialists view their power to be …show more content…

The native people weren't taken at their free will. The foreign imperialist nations destroyed all the foundations of their ancient culture and nothing positive was established in its place. All affected regions were heavily taken advantage of and were given no rights to do anything. They were put to work as cheap labor. The stronger nations were destroying ethnic groups and causing civil wars between smaller nations. According to the colonized people, the imperialists came with the Bible and no land, and instead took their land and forced the religion Christianity upon them. “Colonial Imperialism not only created structurally weak nations in Africa and beyond but also exploited indigenous populations, thus breaking up the material make-up of these societies and culturally destabilizing them (Oguejiofor, 2015).” The quotation depicts how the imperialists treated the colonized people unfairly. The imperialistic ways impacted the colonized people negatively because they had no freedom, had to do what the imperialist country said since they had so much power over them. Although imperialism had several negative impacts on certain regions, it lead to the introduction of a better government system and improvement in technology. The efforts put in by Europe to colonize weak countries resulted in improvement of education and sanitation in the colonized countries. Africa specially gained a lot from Imperialism. Schools and hospitals were built,

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