Throughout history countries turned to imperialism for the benefit of their countries and according to what raw materials they need. Imperialism often occurs in countries that are not well developed and that have resources for more develop countries to use. Great Britain is and was one of the great powers in the world. They were military powerful and economically more developed than Africa. Great Britain took control of Africa because they had natural resources such as diamonds, gold and ivory; resources that helped them strive even more.
According to Jarred Diamond theory of “Geographic Luck” countries with more favorable geographic factors are able to strive more as a country, economically and socially. This is one of the roots of the existing inequality among nations. Nations like New Guinea are not able to strive because they don’t have favorable geography. Their climate is too moist and crops are not able to grow. Their only source of food takes too much to prepare taking most of the energy, not allowing them to spend more
time on other things. People are born with the same human rights, however their surrounding affects their own intellectual, and social and economic developed. A person that is born in the United States has more opportunity than born in Third World countries such as New Guinea and parts of Africa. We should never strive for pure power and wealth in the world because then there wouldn't be progress in the world. If everyone is the same, then people are not going to have the interest to try to do better of themselves and achieve their highest potential. This would make the world undeveloped. According to An Rand objectivism theory one has its own set value and it should be counted as it is.
By:Florangel De Leon
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