North South Divide

The divide between the Northern and Southern Hemispheres has developed into a problem where the Southern Hemisphere is becoming further behind on the economic and social scale because they are less developed. As the Northern Hemisphere exploits and profits off the raw goods that the South produces. This creates a gap where they North is always expanding its economy and the Southern Hemisphere is currently staying in the same place. This system favors the countries that have the ability to produce those raw products, thus selling them back to the Southern hemisphere. The majority of the Southern Hemisphere’s countries are formerly European colonies that left them to rebuild.

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The Northern Hemisphere is able to afford the goods that surround them such as high technology machines to increase the ability to manufacture along with being able to produce a military force that can be supported. This places the Southern Hemisphere at a significant disadvantage when it comes to trying to catch up and being as developed to the Northern Hemisphere. At this rate, the Southern Hemisphere is always going to be at a disadvantage because the goods that they are producing aren’t as equal to the North’s. This places them in a cycle where they are always going to be inferior and it’ll take them a lot longer to be developed. The Northern Hemisphere is able to take the cheap goods such as soy, sugar cane, and raw metals, and turn them into things that can actually be used and turned technology/machines. The North is taking advantage of the very inexpensive labor and raw materials to form a profit for them to further their economies which the South is still stuck trying to develop while the North is making leaps and bounds because of where they are buying their products. “For more than a generation, the North-South divide was central to the explanation of