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The commonest challenge that they would be facing would be racism. I would hope that by now racism would be gone but I know better.  They get forced off their land. They also have those people who are trying to adopt their cultures and don't understand or appreciate it. 

I think everyone knows that racism affects people. there is rascim towards several diffrennt groups. But perhaps the biggest all group racism is towards the blacks and the first nations. those who are not in it don't always realized how much it does to the individuals who face it. They have lost so many opportunities because of racism. 

Perhaps I could use racism as the centre of all of my points the second being. the loss of land. For one reason or another first nations have lost their lands. ( THey are not the only ones.) Either taken in the early days and put in a reserve. Or the government has a plan and and takes the land. For themselves.  All over the world those who used to have all the land generations ago no longer have the land that according to them is rightfully theirs. 

People always have different people trying to learn your culture. Sometimes you don't have much say in the matter in keeping people out of your culture. THose people don't always appreciate what is happening with your culture. You also have to watch and make sure they do not desecrate ceremonies and abuse sacred things to your culture. How can anyone try and stop those busybodies?

Everyone faces these things, sometimes in different degrees I can't honestly say that they are always taken to the extreme but I think we can try to lessen the affect that Racism, governmental land and the problems of busybodies. That is not to say I don't think the government shouldn't be able to take some land IF they need it. But only IF. But we could try to help. 

Imperialism

What is the impact of imperialism? How has if affected my country? Imperialism has affected every country including those who have never been attached to an empire. I don’t know if we always realize that it does affect us. How we act, what we say, what we learn. America, despite breaking away earlier than us they still have Britten aspects in their history and ways of life.

Most world powers have in the past had some part in imperialism if in bible times, Romans, and the struggling power of Britain. It is hard to imagine that it has affected us so much. The influence wanes as more and more time passes. People that start imperialism are greedy, a novel concept I know.  They want power and gain, over others, not really caring what happens as long as they get their profit. It reminds me of the Britain storeowners we read about in the early stages of the industrial revolution.  They didn’t care as long as they got their money.

Of course when this happens we see that with greed comes the concept of Eurocentrism people start to think that they are better than everyone else and deserves more. This term is more centered on the Europeans, rather than us. But the concept is still their and saying that it doesn’t happen to us is saying that you have wings.

            They want the profit that other countries make and so they sell goods, concur other countries and carefully try to figure a way to manipulate them. Don’t get me wrong I love England and everything that goes with it. Well almost everything.  I am not saying they are bad. We don’t always realize we have that instinct in us until it until fate actually puts them in that position and they are trying to take over.

That is not to say that Imperialism is always bad. For many of the countries Britain colonized I would say it a good thing. For Canada I would say we are lucky to have been able to grow as we have, able to find and learn new things with the benefit of the mother country.  Things that England learned from experience we learned without all the hassle that they had in learning it. In some thing we are old fashioned from the rest of the world sticking with England and their ways but who is to say that is a bad thing? England eventually gave their countries their “freedom” or the ability not to ask them everything. And I would say that all has learned from that experience.  Britain has helped to give us that extra push for many of the countries to turn from their third world state to a first or second.

Adolf Hitler was one of the people in this world who tried to take it to the extreme, extremes. We all know that he tried to take over the world. And it‘s scary to realize that he got as far as he did.  Taking things to extremes will always be a downfall that we have. If we can stop it is the main thing.  Taking chocolate, music, studying to far it will hurt us in the long run. Taking imperialism to far could be deadly destructive to a culture. Luckily for us the Britain’s were nice enough to let us go. 

The Silk Road

The silk road is not a road made out of silk, despite what some people think, even if they are just the uneducated. The silk road is trade. The silk road was the trade route that started around 100 B.C.. The trade route was humongous especially for the time period and the time it would take to get anywhere. they did however get good things out of the trade. There is down sides to every bonuses however and plagues are one of them. problem is how do you store it? 

imagine that when you only had chariots, boats, and horses you also have trade. not just any trade though trade stretching from your house in Bombay, India, too Kyoto, Japan and Venice Italy. Now think of the things that the Japanese have that you wouldn't normally, and do the same with Italy. Silks, noodles, religions, perfume and glass figures that you had  no idea how they did it. Food that is only grown in a specific area.  the things that people got, and were able to receive... the amount you would learn from a culture with just a finely decorated clay pot. You would have so many things to see. 

The problem with it? How do you store fruit from Japan for a voyage back to Italy when you have no planes, trains or trucks to drive. Instead you have caravans full of goods that are more durable. as fruit won't be able to be preserved for the months of journeying. What can you do, you don't have the supplies knowledge or power to make preservatives that are on anything we buy. So you can't bring this nice fruit to the Italian instead you stop at Beijing China hoping the demand is high enough for you. 

Not all trade is good however if you took someone from southern china and dumped them in Istanbuf for the winter with no supplies other than what he would have in southern china what would happen to said chinese? It wouldn't work. The poor person would die with know chance. the same thing happens when you dump some culture with a disease that you unknowingly have the amune system for? what happens to the culture? You have problems that can't be fixed because you don't know the cure for it anyways. It has never effected your culture yet unknowingly another. 

On the whole though this route started us in the new age where we trade from most of the countries and opened up North and South America for colonization and the eventual power of the west. we now have the technology to research plagues that come unknowingly from different  ethnic groups and can combat them more easily. We have the knowledge of preserving food for one another and we can enjoy things that different cultures love and can share in their joy as well. the Silk road has only expanded and will continue to expand as cultures expand as well. The Silk road has led us on to new knowledge and experiences.