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.