While reading this chapter, it reminded me of the transition from a little kid to a pre-teen. As a child, you are dependent on your parents, like the developing countries depending on first world countries. As you get older however, you become independent of each other. My parents expected me to get good grades, clean my room, do my own laundry, etc. I expected my parents to drive me to soccer practice, pay for school, bills, etc. The developing and developed countries began to depend on each other for trade and exporting goods. The newly independent states became more industrialized by buying first world technology which is, in a way, something that I have recently done. Only a couple months of being 18 and considered an ‘adult’ and independent,
