Colonialism is where a country sends some of its citizens as a way to expand their power, resources, land, and for strategic purposes. Meaning, that when a country send its citizens in, these people take the ideas, beliefs, and customs of their country, an inflict it upon those who may already be living where the country may want to put its citizens. Imperialism also makes it difficult for a global sisterhood to exist because it is related to colonialism. It has the same definition expect for the fact that it also includes economic, military and/or cultural dominance which in a way, is worse, than colonialism.
Globalization is also related to both of these in the fact that it, “refers to the transformation of local or regional phenomena into global ones and describes the unification of people around the world into a global community”. It’s basically what imperialism and colonialism do, but on a much bigger level.
In the chapter, it says that, “women are directly impacted from colonial and imperial processes as a result of these practices that transform and regulate their lives”. Meaning that by bringing their own practices, cultures, and beliefs over, it pushes the original people’s ideas out of the way because they are forced to change their beliefs and practices to the invading country or else suffer the consequences. It is because of this, that …show more content…
I had always believed that the US was a front runner in the human rights movement. I didn’t think it was very hard to find examples from the UN report that demonstrate the lack of sisterhood. The one that stood out to me the most was the unfairness to women who were sent to prison. The experts were, “appalled by the over-incarnation of women, mostly for non-violent crimes, and the failure to find non-custodial solutions for mothers of dependent children….expressing deep concern at the women prisoners’ conditions, which include mass accommodation spaces, over-crowding in cells, solitary confinement, shackling during childbirth and lack of support for re-entry”. It’s really saddening to see bad things happen to good people who make a small mistake and the fact that nothing is done to accommodate them better, or to even have them be shackle free during childbirth is absolutely