Periphery countries

majority of the countries. Eight of the ten countries my clothes were made in were manufactured in the eastern hemisphere. While these countries import clothes into North America, a core region, none of the countries exporting my clothes are well developed. Countries such as China, Mexico, India, Indonesia, and Vietnam are considered Semi peripheral regions. Semi peripheral regions are countries who are ahead of peripheral countries but still not fit enough to be considered a core country.…

approach the cause of why the third still world exists, one in particular stands out. The Dependency Theory is the notion that colonization in the mid 1800-1900s has resulted in the LDCs to rely for political and economic support on the core or elite countries. The theory is heavily influenced by the results of the Industrial Revolution and what unrestrained capitalism and imperialism has led to. It was the idea that imperialism is power and that colonization is a necessary solution to…

Phi Lam, my father, is a fifty year old Vietnamese refugee from Vietnam who fled his war-torn country in search for a place of safety and opportunity. In order to learn more about my own culture and how exactly I came to be an Asian-American, I have chosen my father to be my interviewee. It all started in 1975, when the Viet Cong won the Vietnam War. With my father’s family supporting the South, despite the North’s victory, he was forced into a rough life. His family was split; the men in the…

organizations. They are using any tools to collect any information possible to attack their target. Terrorist attacks are another big problem that the United States is facing and will probably keep on facing due to the influential power that the country has. Weapons of mass destruction are part of the big bubble of global threats that the world is facing. For example, country’s like North Korea will always face a treat to national security. According to an article from BBC, “North Korea’s…

How do our choices make a difference? What course of action would result in the most favourable outcome? Where to focus efforts in order to generate maximum attention, interest, or income? We face such elementary yet essential challenges regularly, and a myriad of assessments as well as practical challenges over the course of our management degree has furthered my understanding about the practical application of managerial practices. In order to better understand the practices that determine our…

source also focuses on and criticizes nationalism in a way that the selfish countries that are being cross-examined here only promote the interest of one’s state or people above all others. The aspect of nationalism that is being opposed here is the feeling that people have of their country that comes with the belief that the country is better and more important than others, while it is important for those selfish countries to abolish that childish idiosyncrasy in order to take action and…

Terms like “development”, the division between “developed” and “developing” countries and the desirability of industrial growth, are for the most part, taken for granted in mainstream and even some critical theories of development. However, these terms are not neutral descriptors, rather they are part of a larger regime of development discourse and are implicated in the maintenance of unequal global power relations. Building on the Foucauldian concept of discourse, anthropologists like Escobar…

and I felt his style to be an practical one when communicating with his audiences. In his book, Something New Under the Sun, I felt I was better able to connect with what he was saying because of his use of "personal examples" from the various countries. I feel that both of these readings are a sort of "call-to-arms" for people to start doing more to end the atrocities that are…

the UK. Many countries around the world don’t have the infrastructure capable of supporting products and services from developed nations like the UK. This barrier maybe hard to overcome as some product may need specific requirements which aren’t available worldwide. So the idea of internationalising through the entry modes of exporting maybe counterproductive as the infrastructure isn’t sustainable. Many SME’s in the tech sector are looking to internationalise especially in countries where…

whole world. Although it affects all of us, the bigger and worse impact is on the poor people of developing countries. This is due to their lack of ability to help themselves. They do not have the resources that they need to at least adapt if not make it better. We live in a selfish-minded world which means the people who have the greatest ability to help, do not. People of more developed countries, whether they are rich or poor, are the biggest contributors to the problem yet we do nothing…