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    II. The Impact of French Colonialism on Moroccan Culture. It may be wrong thinking that the colonized countries in general have been entirely independent. Many years passed since morocco gets its independence, but the impact of colonization is still nowadays with its effects on Morocco in several sides including culture. However, the image of superiority, modernity, and civilization of France has deeply saved in Moroccan memories. We cannot deny our dependence to the colonizer whether culturally…

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    winning a realm. A few takeovers were constrained by political competitions. One country may grab a region to keep a contender from venturing into that district. A few countries would extend to help their financial worth, or individual riches. Colonialism propels a nation's legislative issues, society, and financial quality into a capable cash making nation. The political part of government advances a nation from being week into an in number battling country. For instance, when the French were…

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    With the development of the economy and society, lots of colonies had independent movements, which made the colonialism withdrew from the trend of the times. This behavior made colonialism gradually evolve to the modern globalization. And today, we will talk about the similarities and differences about the 19th century colonialism and contemporary globalization. Colonialism means that European countries use military, political, and economic means, occupation, slavery and exploitation small weak…

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    demonstrate a sarcastic look at British colonialism in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s. The story consists of British soldiers Peachy Carnehan and Daniel Dravot whose services in the military were no longer needed due to the British government’s successfully gained control of India and the enforcement of their system of indirect rule. They then decided to make a future in becoming kings of a foreign land. This can be seen as a parallel…

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    This form of government was only concerned with the “affairs of a colony at the central and local levels.”(Colonialism in Africa) The Europeans worked behind the scenes, making laws and overseeing the judicial system, while they appointed traditional African leaders to act as figureheads to oversee the local government. What I don 't understand is why the people…

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    economic opportunities such as investment and trade, various explorers and merchants went to discover new lands in the far east to make trading connections which resulted in the discovery of the New Land. The major focus of the imperialism and colonialism was to expand physically and in order to fulfill this goal European nations established colonies in the New World, Africa and India. At one point in history, some dominant nations of Europe such as England, Spain, France, Netherlands and…

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    savage, uncivilized and barbarians. But it only reveals one fact that how dehumanizing colonialism was in terms of creating hierarchy by categorizing human being. European imperialist mission to dominate the colonized land was based on three main factors i.e. political, economical and social. The relationship between the colonizer and the colonized became an unequal power game of conquest and domination. Colonialism motivated and involved a wide range of plunder, loot, enslavement…

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    Africa as an opportunity to expand their growing industrial economies. However each European power dealt with their own collection of African territories with different intent, direction, and levels of control, creating a dynamic collection of colonialism that varied as different as the regions of Africa itself. By analyzing France and Germanys strategies and agendas in Africa,…

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    Before the legitimate colonization of Kenya took place, many different peoples settled in the area. Cushitic-speaking people from northern Africa settled in a region of East Africa, which is the region that is now considered Kenya, around 2000 BC. Due to Kenya’s proximity to the Arabian Peninsula, by the first century AD, Arabian traders frequented the Kenyan coast, eventually establishing Arab and Persian colonies. In addition to the Arabs and Persians, during the first century AD, the Bantu…

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    The New Versus The Old During the early stages of religious exchange and colonial expansion, African communities split between those who accepted the European’s new religious and education practices versus those who stayed true to their traditions. Ngugi uses the river as symbol of the divide between the village. While the divide between those who followed the Europeans new order and the villagers who followed the traditional way started off small, there soon became a larger and larger gap…

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