Negative Effects of Colonialis
The Negative Effects of ColonizationWhen Christopher Columbus crossed the Atlantic, looking for a new route to the East, he found a New World. In this New World he found a new and strange people. The landscape was different, the climate was different and the natural resources were different. After returning back to Spain and reporting this New World, the European colonialism was started. People from many of the European nations came to what would be called the Americas and laid their claim to the land. Each country bringing their views and cultures and establishing it in the area that they claimed. This colonialism continued throughout history into the 20th century. Africa and Southeast Asia were colonized, by the U.S. and various other European nations, and used as battlegrounds for the U.S. and the Soviet Union to fight their cold war. These wars resulted in the deaths of many soldiers but even more African and Asian people, whose homes were displaced and country torn apart. The affects of this colonialism can still be seen thought these countries in today's times. Robert A. Heinlein, C.S. Lewis and Ray Bradbury deal with the issue of colonialism in the books, The Puppet Masters, Out of the Silent Planet and The
The Titans seem to believe that they have a right to go to any planet and call it there own. " (101) This is like the early expeditions to America when small groups of people arrived. Weston ended up killing Ransom new friend all for reasons of greed and arrogance that didn't exist on Malachandra. The negative affects of colonialism give shape to the three novels. " This attitude is the same as the early settlers who believed that the land they claimed belonged to them despite the fact there were already people living there. That is another affect of colonization, no resistance to diseases. You give us plenty sun bloods, we go back into sky, you never see us no more. (64)This attitude toward is common with colonialist who look down on people for now having the same technologies or way of life. Bradbury's The Martians Chronicles shows the history from beginning to end of colonization. The end result is that the relationship between the two peoples will always be unequal, making it impossible for the two groups to co-exist together. Our right to supersede you is the right of the higher over the lower. The belief in superiority of one group of people over another and the one group has the right to use whatever it wants because of that belief. "(134) Even when his life was about to be taken away from him, all he could think about was the gold. Vietnam was torn apart by a decade of war because of two colonial powers using them to fight a cold war.
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