Ch. 23

After reading Chapter 23 I really begin to ask myself what would have these ‘developing countries’ would be like today if Europeans would have never colonized, or attempted to colonize them.  For the first time after reading this book I begin to see the European expansion as bad.  Some of it changed for good because it developed industrialized countries.  But on the vast majority side, it really messed with the natives, their culture, and their economy as well as their natural resources.  For example in most of Africa and India, if not all, these ‘developing countries’ had major problems within themselves even decades after colonization because it brought up ideas that some people favored while their tradition societies rejected them.  On top of that there were land division issues between tribes or religious groups as well.