DISORGANIZING THE COLONIAL WORLD

I'm a Colonialism created a system that still lingers today. In the article “Instituting the development project” Phillip McMicheal states that colonialism exposed non-European cultures and ecologies to profound disorganization and I couldn’t agree with him more. The definition he gave us was that colonialism is the subjugation by physical and psychological force of one culture by another. The system the colonialists created has no unity to the natural world and has resulted in a disorganized system. Lets take land ownership for instance land was taken from the indigenous people under the pretense of the Europeans laws, some laws stated that if there wasn’t a government in place within that land it now belonged to the queen of England. This allowed a horrible outcome for the indigenous people and their land. It created cultural genocide allowed for the extraction of labor, cultural treasures, and resources to enrich the colonial power. This caused globalization to occur which was completely different ideology than what the people where doing at the time. Industrialization allowed for a change in labor and economy, humans depended on their local ecosystem to supply what they needed; they harvested just what was necessary. Now we live in a society that relies on a monoculture agricultural system and overharvesting which depletes natural resources. A perfect example of this is what occurred when the East Indian company destroyed Indians native crafts by raising the tariffs of Indians finished goods by 70 to 80 percent which made it virtually impossible for Indian to trade. Colonialism is still felt in certain parts of the southern hemisphere the majority of the poor marginalized countries are in the southern hemisphere and all of these countries are economically dependent on the developed countries and agencies such as the IMF and WTO. Many believe that there is a huge inequality between the North and South. The reason why this is considered disorganization is because the colonial powers through combination of economic and political measures were able to control labor and production in those territories but when they left they didn’t leave them much, and in the end destroyed their natural system.. Click here to add your own text and edit me. It's easy.