I will be interpreting three sources, discussing the connections between these sources, historical globalization, imperialism, and eurocentrism. Additionally, I will distinguish and clarify these relationships that exist among these sources. The first source is an excerpt explaining what happened when Aboriginals left residential school. The second source is an advertisement with a youthful child in residential school and an excerpt talking about the Europeans assimilating the First Nations culture to civilize them. The third source is a political cartoon depicting the British imperialism taking possession over lands and controlling the colonies.
The first source explains the impact residential schools had on Aboriginal identity. It portrays …show more content…
The political cartoon demonstrates a human-headed, thirteenth legged, octopus, representing England grabbing all countries except Egypt. This symbolizes the power and control England had. From my concluded research, the human-headed octopus is John bull. John Bull is an imaginary person used to satirize political events. When John bull became a well-known cartoon who was used as a symbol for England. England had a desire for economic growth to gain supremacy and the colonial rule, would be a jump start.The craving to acquire a greater amount of these assets drove Europeans government to build the span of their empires. Imperialism plays a major role in this cartoon because England had a hunger for raw resources where they can turn into manufactured goods and sell them. This endeavored a hope to control overseas countries which would create an economic expansion.As I have mentioned, Britain has taken control over all land aside from Egypt. In 1882, Egypt was favored because it was the natural connecting point for the trade routes for exchanging manufactured goods that would help the Britain acquire more power and …show more content…
All three sources came from the idea that the Europeans had to be more superior than all else. This is also connected to colonization and imperialism. Eurocentrism leads to residential schools which lead to the long-term effect on Aboriginal people. With all three sources, Europeans were taking over land that was already claimed to belong to the Aboriginals but the Europeans wanted to colonize land and spread their beliefs. Residential schools were used to assimilate the Aboriginal people into Christianity which is what the Europeans wanted, they didn't care about the Aboriginal individuals as long as they were spreading their beliefs around the world. Colonization took place before residential schools were created. Europeans claimed an area changing the old way of governing to a eurocentrism type of government where all things were created to benefit them.The Europeans thrust itself onto eurocentrism world views. While taking over lands, this leads to imperialism. Being able to have power and control economically, socially and politically over lands. When European countries colonized lands, they had motives for gaining wealth, spreading Christianity and obtaining power as a
The first source explains the impact residential schools had on Aboriginal identity. It portrays …show more content…
The political cartoon demonstrates a human-headed, thirteenth legged, octopus, representing England grabbing all countries except Egypt. This symbolizes the power and control England had. From my concluded research, the human-headed octopus is John bull. John Bull is an imaginary person used to satirize political events. When John bull became a well-known cartoon who was used as a symbol for England. England had a desire for economic growth to gain supremacy and the colonial rule, would be a jump start.The craving to acquire a greater amount of these assets drove Europeans government to build the span of their empires. Imperialism plays a major role in this cartoon because England had a hunger for raw resources where they can turn into manufactured goods and sell them. This endeavored a hope to control overseas countries which would create an economic expansion.As I have mentioned, Britain has taken control over all land aside from Egypt. In 1882, Egypt was favored because it was the natural connecting point for the trade routes for exchanging manufactured goods that would help the Britain acquire more power and …show more content…
All three sources came from the idea that the Europeans had to be more superior than all else. This is also connected to colonization and imperialism. Eurocentrism leads to residential schools which lead to the long-term effect on Aboriginal people. With all three sources, Europeans were taking over land that was already claimed to belong to the Aboriginals but the Europeans wanted to colonize land and spread their beliefs. Residential schools were used to assimilate the Aboriginal people into Christianity which is what the Europeans wanted, they didn't care about the Aboriginal individuals as long as they were spreading their beliefs around the world. Colonization took place before residential schools were created. Europeans claimed an area changing the old way of governing to a eurocentrism type of government where all things were created to benefit them.The Europeans thrust itself onto eurocentrism world views. While taking over lands, this leads to imperialism. Being able to have power and control economically, socially and politically over lands. When European countries colonized lands, they had motives for gaining wealth, spreading Christianity and obtaining power as a