How Does Imperalism Affect Us Today

What are the main effects of imperialism today?

While the effects, good and bad, are many and in some cases disputable, it can generally be said that the political map of the world as we know it today is a direct result of imperialism and the scramble for territory, colonies and the natural resources these places had to offer. States, such as in Africa and Latin America were created as sub units of European powers. Some have remained in the form they were created. Others have vanished or broken up, like Pakistan and Bangladesh. Even others have become bigger units, like the 13 original British colonies in the Americas becoming the United States.Imperialism also saw the spread of languages and a better change of creating lingua francas out of the major European languages.Legal systems became more unified as did education and the manner of dress. Not all of this may be good for a region, but it has made the world more consistent in many ways.The adverse side of the coin are the many wars and loss of many cultures and languages by forced acceptance of a foreign system.

Does imperialism still exist?

Yes, imperialism, though not in its definitive sense, still does exist. However, I would say it is imposed by the First and Second World countries like China and not the Third World countries like India.“The rules of globalization were written by the West and the Empire. We have only played by it.”Here, ‘We’ refers to the developing third world countries like India.Whether nations like India get to enter Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) or not is decided by a second world country like China.Whether a country like India or Japan gets to enter the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) is decided only by these first and second world countries.When there is no consultation happening with emerging powers, how is it possible for the latter to exercise political control or economic exploitation across the world?Thus, it is not the third world nations like India that are commanding political control over superpowers. Instead, it is the other way around.On one hand, the developed nations, having a greater say at World Trade Organization (WTO), are expecting the developing nations to abolish the Anti Dumping Duties on cheap goods exported by different countries.On the other hand, the developed nations do not want cheap labours in their countries and are resorting to protectionism.You now know who is trying to exploit the economy.

What is the impact of imperialism in today's india?

Although some issues such as ethnic tensions (caused by the division of India and Pakistan by the British) are due to imperialism, there are many more that aren't, and thus to blame everything on imperialism is:Sounding a lot like our Indian politiciansIncorrectStraining our relationship with the British, who are a useful strategic partner, and both sides have everything to lose if we started playing the blame game with them.However, I can provide a reasonable list of things that the British did wrong that negatively affected us until now:Taking of natural resources - the British took, according to estimates, the equivalent of £1 billion ( in 1900 money, now worth approx. £10.8 trillion), if we still had those we would be the richest economy in the world by far.This point is aptly summarised by the following quotation:"A significant fact which stands out is that those parts of India which have been longest under British rule are the poorest today." – Jawaharlal Nehru, First Prime Minister of IndiaEthnic tensions, as the races were divided into Pakistan and India, creating hatred between Hindu's and Muslims.Illegitimate educational system - teachings of the caste system to create division between Indians, which have been refuted by modern genetic modelling techniques in several Indian research papers.You can blame the British for problems like this, but for nothing else, because if you did, it would be like the British blaming us for the downfall of the British Empire, which is false.For more, follow here.

To what extent does Western Imperialism affect the world we live in today?

Let's start with "The international languages of business are primarily European ones" and "the global South had so much wealth sucked out of it that it is STILL mostly poor, full of corruption, and has trouble providing infrastructure to all residents," just for two really obvious, widespread ones.Neither of these is accidental or inevitable. They are both the consequence of Western colonizers coming violently into other cultures, imposing their own standards and desires, and taking whatever they felt was their right to take.I did not cause any of this (much of it predates even my grandparents), but I benefit from it every day.

How did American imperialism affect Panama?

I watched a special on Netflix about the Roosevelt's. Theodore and Franklin D. Booth of these men believed that it was our job and destiny to be a world power although Teddy was more of the Imperialist mindset. It showed how the panama canal came to be. We (the USA) wanted it at the time the area known as Panama was part of Columbia. We offered to lease the land but the Columbians weren't having it. There happened to be a group of people in the isthmus of Panama that wanted to be a separate country so we did what we do best get in the middle of a sovereign nations internal struggle by way of supplying arms to the rebels. We did this in exchange for rights to the canal for I believe 100 year lease which just this century expired. So in this respect Panama would not exist without American Imperialism. There is an answer that says the American imperialism didn't affect Panama because the USA doesn't have colonies. This is correct we don't that does not mean that we don't flex our muscles all over the earth for our interests which is a type of Imperialism just not the traditional definition.