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The Role Of Globalization In Canada

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Globalization is defined as the process by which businesses or other organizations develop international influence or start operating on an international scale. This idea of globalization has been around for hundreds of years. This source says that European consumption of tribal societies can be said to be the biggest act of human destructiveness ever recorded. Consumption means “eating” something up, so therefore it is saying that the Europeans are “eating” the tribal society and its goods. The goal of European nations is to gain the most land and more resources to make goods with, which will make them more money. While colonizing, there were many deaths and painful punishments for things that seemed irrelevant in our day and age. People who …show more content…

The First Nation community has been in Canada for at least 12,000 years. Long before the Europeans made contact with them, the First Nations were active traders and had established trading patterns and alliances all around North America. The Europeans first started making contact between the 17th and 18th century. They had the goal to accumulate lots of land and saw Canada as being completely empty, ignoring the presents of the First Nations. All that the Europeans wanted to do was get as many resources as possible to make goods to send back home to Europe and convert everyone to their religion of Catholicism. The First Nations had never had contact with other humans like this and they were very oblivious to the assimilation that was happening to them. An example of how the Europeans destroyed societies is residential schools. The first residential school opened in 1876 and the last one closed in 1996. These schools had so many negative impacts on First Nations children such as; taking them away from their families at a young age, loss of language, sexual and physical abuse and forcibly enfranchising the children. Because of all these awful acts, there are still people living with the effects. Some of which include PTSD, alcoholism and substance abuse and suicide. The long term problems that the Europeans started is an example how they destroyed tribal …show more content…

Congo free state was first established in 1884. The colonial nations of Europe gave Leopold II of Belgium the authority to go and claim the Congo. They said that it would improve the lives of the natives that inhabited the land but that was evidently not the case. As soon as Leopold got over to the Congo, he had forgotten all about these promises. At first the drive for ivory was very prominent but eventually the want for rubber became a lot bigger. The machinery wasn't developed enough to do this so Leopold used what forces he had, manpower. The natives were forced into harvesting and processing rubber. This was a very physically demanding job because they had to climb up the trees to make big slashes into them and then go home and stir the liquid until it was in the right consistency to make the rubber. Each month, if someone didn’t meet the quota that was set out, they would get their hands or feet cut off. There was so many unthinkable things that occurred during this such as forced labour, beating, widespread killing and frequent mutilation. The estimated death toll was between 1 million to 15 million. Just looking at these few examples, the destructiveness of the Congolese people is quite clear. Today, the Congo is still a struggling country. It is very poor, unstable and corrupted because of the various wars and conflicts that happened in the history of the Congo. Because of the

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