Sunday, February 7, 2010

Negative Effects of the New Imperialism

When I think of some of the negative effects new imperialism might have had on Europeans, I have to think that with them conquering all this new land that their must have been an insane amount of pressure added to their government. It is a big enough job trying to manage your own country let alone adding a few more on the pile. And when I think of the negative impacts it played on the countries and people being conquered, it just seems sad, lonely and depressing. If you think about it, one day your living your life and your happy. Then the next day you wake up and there are these foreign people at you door, telling you that the way you live your life is no longer acceptable and that you must change. That would be horrible. It must have been so frustrating for people who were conquered by the Europeans. All of sudden there are people, who must have looked like aliens; telling you that you can't dress the way you dress, you can't run your goverment the way you have for decades, and you can't practice traditions because we think they are weird. How sad and hurt the people must have been.

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