Related Issue #2
To what extent should contemporary society respond to the legacies of historical globalization?
What are some legacies of historical globalization? The legacies of Globalization can be put into three examples as follows: the British East India Company, Rwandan genocide, and our Canadian residential schools. Now i will go more into depth about these huge events in Historical Globalization.
-First, we can look at India where there was enslavement of people. In the 1600’s the British East India Company (BEIC) was created; it did not gain power in India until the 1800’s. When BEIC was given control of India, the Indian people became an oppressed people essentially enslaved by the BEIC as workers and consumers. It is important to note that the British East India Company was not only the first transnational company, but the BEIC shaped India for a hundred plus years after they left, mostly for the worse.
-First, we can look at India where there was enslavement of people. In the 1600’s the British East India Company (BEIC) was created; it did not gain power in India until the 1800’s. When BEIC was given control of India, the Indian people became an oppressed people essentially enslaved by the BEIC as workers and consumers. It is important to note that the British East India Company was not only the first transnational company, but the BEIC shaped India for a hundred plus years after they left, mostly for the worse.
Second, Rwanda stands out because of the tragic genocide. In 1994, over a period of 100 days upwards of 1,000,000 Tutsis were killed in a mass killing of innocents. Although, this ruthless genocide created a new standard of accountability for the UN and allowed people to know that even in modern society tragedy can still happen, we know the reality that it still happened in recent history. You might still ask how did globalization cause or even effected this genocide. After the scramble for Africa in the early 1900's, just before WWI, Germany gained control of Rwanda. They inherited from Germany, the favoring of one race over another which in this case was the Tutsis (they were like more because they had more "European features"). Fast forward 100 years of oppression, the angered Hutus gain control of the country. Fast forward another 50 years of Tutsi fear and rebellion, and you get a genocide.
Finally, we can take a look at ourselves here in Canada because of our assimilation of Indigenous people. In 1876, there came into action an act of evil through the residential schools. The Indian Act of 1876, created an idea to assimilate all Indigenous people into the Canadian culture. Schools were made up of children from aged 5-18; however, these schools were not like most middle-class schools. In the rez schools, as they were called by their students, was found a place of abuse and destruction. There were over 100,000 Canadian Aboriginal children processed by the schools from the time they were created to the time the last school was decommissioned in 1994.
Within historical globalization there has been a trend. That trend has been that in order for one people group to thrive there must be zero competition. For the human race to succeed we must learn to live with one another and accept our fellow man as not just a color, culture, or cause, but as individuals.