The north and south countries are considered a socioeconomic and political divide. Some countries belonging to the north are: USA, Western Europe, and developed parts of East Asia. Countries belonging to the south are: Africa, Latin America, developing Asia and the Middle East. The global north is composed of most first and second world countries while the global south is composed of third world and developing countries. The global north is defined as the rich and developed region while the global south is poorer and less developed. South countries have suffered many economic crises while north countries don’t have many serious economic problems. This has created a significant difference between global north and global south countries therefore;
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South countries have a difficult time importing and accessing world markets because the majority lacks navigable rivers or efficient roads and rail networks this is a major dis advantage because this affects the cost of importing things that are necessary and the countries cant afford the cost to import them.
Also because global north countries are better developed and more advanced they are more advances technologically speaking. According to Kegley, Charles (2009) Differences in technological aspects has separated significantly the global north countries from the south. South countries have not advanced or progressed from their indigenous culture. This means south countries have not advanced and/or progressed technologically speaking and global north countries have advanced rapidly in this aspect. Because south countries have not advanced technologically they have to depend in corporations from the north. Maybe south countries can’t advance because of lack of resources so they have to turn up to corporations from the north. This also means south countries cant advance because the north corporations focuses on their problems and don’t care about the south countries problems. How ever south countries don’t have an option because they lack economical resources since their main focus is agriculture. According …show more content…
According to Marie, Kristina (2014) the dependency south countries have with north countries is bad because south counties are vulnerable to cultural penetration. Cultural penetration is when the foreigners (corporations from the north) introduce their culture and try to replace it instead of the culture of the country. The dependency of the south countries also causes dualism. Dualism according to Marie, Kristina (2014) is the existence of two separate economic and social sectors operating side by side. This means that the country is divided in two because of the corporations of the north. One side of the country is rural, full of poverty and is ignored by the other sector; meanwhile the other sector is urban and developing. Although they are supposed to work together there is little interaction between the two sectors. As a result of this dependency colonialism is caused. Colonialism means according to the dictionary.com (2015) “the control or governing influence of a nation over a dependent country, territory, or people”. This means that the corporations from the north have almost full control and can influence the government of a country. Colonialism causes a division a labor where the dependent country is periphery where they are forced into cheap labor, export of raw materials and the import of finished goods.
South countries have a difficult time importing and accessing world markets because the majority lacks navigable rivers or efficient roads and rail networks this is a major dis advantage because this affects the cost of importing things that are necessary and the countries cant afford the cost to import them.
Also because global north countries are better developed and more advanced they are more advances technologically speaking. According to Kegley, Charles (2009) Differences in technological aspects has separated significantly the global north countries from the south. South countries have not advanced or progressed from their indigenous culture. This means south countries have not advanced and/or progressed technologically speaking and global north countries have advanced rapidly in this aspect. Because south countries have not advanced technologically they have to depend in corporations from the north. Maybe south countries can’t advance because of lack of resources so they have to turn up to corporations from the north. This also means south countries cant advance because the north corporations focuses on their problems and don’t care about the south countries problems. How ever south countries don’t have an option because they lack economical resources since their main focus is agriculture. According …show more content…
According to Marie, Kristina (2014) the dependency south countries have with north countries is bad because south counties are vulnerable to cultural penetration. Cultural penetration is when the foreigners (corporations from the north) introduce their culture and try to replace it instead of the culture of the country. The dependency of the south countries also causes dualism. Dualism according to Marie, Kristina (2014) is the existence of two separate economic and social sectors operating side by side. This means that the country is divided in two because of the corporations of the north. One side of the country is rural, full of poverty and is ignored by the other sector; meanwhile the other sector is urban and developing. Although they are supposed to work together there is little interaction between the two sectors. As a result of this dependency colonialism is caused. Colonialism means according to the dictionary.com (2015) “the control or governing influence of a nation over a dependent country, territory, or people”. This means that the corporations from the north have almost full control and can influence the government of a country. Colonialism causes a division a labor where the dependent country is periphery where they are forced into cheap labor, export of raw materials and the import of finished goods.