The effects of colonization have additional influences on the structure of the South African’s personal lifestyle. Scholars note that colonization has had an effects on the gradual breakdown of traditional family values (8). The reason being that the Western idea of social organization has been brought into the African countries, resulting in the gradual loss of the traditional ancestral honor. Arowolo’s account on the situation stated: “there is no more respect for age; no more respect for values that we held sacrosanct in Africa; younger ones now find it very difficult to greet elderly ones (8). The Western values have also promoted the ideas of individualism rather than communism in the family’s structure. There is a larger incidence rate of children belonging to single parents before colonization—a phenomenon that is identifiable with America, has clearly influenced the South African families (8). In addition, Emma Guest, a researcher that has visited Africa, believes that westernization, along with disease, and other extraneous factors that negatively impact family structure, ultimately threatens to “destroy entire cultures [in South Africa, and other parts of …show more content…
The European colonization has forcibly attempted to Westernize the country in which they settled in. As mentioned, one of the major negative impacts are the violations of human rights that came upon with colonialism. The many violations that were emplaced by apartheid determined to undermine the self-identity of the South African people. Additionally, the language that was enforced by the European-ruled South Africa. The children are forced to leave behind the native languages that were taught by their families, in exchange for the colonists’ languages. The language barrier results in the deterioration of the academic grades that were received by the South African
There were many cultural beliefs and practices that changed the outcome of Abina’s life including liberalism, industrialism, imperialism, colonialism, nationalism, slavery, and gender discriminations. Through the Western influences that the British brought to Africa, not only did Abina’s life change but the positive and negative effects influenced everyone in her village.
Europe, in the late 1800’s, was starting for a land grab in the African continent. Around 1878, most of Africa was unexplored, but by 1914, most of Africa, with the lucky exception of Liberia and Ethiopia, was carved up between European powers. There were countless motivations that spurred the European powers to carve Africa, like economical, political, and socio–cultural, and there were countless attitudes towards this expansion into Africa, some of approval and some of condemnation.
When the Age of Imperialism began in 1875, it effected Africa in many ways. Nowhere was the competition for colonies more intense than in Africa. Europeans went after North and South Africa splitting up the continent. Egypt and Sudan were taken over by Britain to obtain the Suez Canal. Imperialism helped to develop Africa’s economy and turned it into a continent of colonies.
In this section, I will provide a brief history of U.S. military involvement on the African continent, starting with the Barbary Wars and working up through the current date. This historical documentation will highlight the change in the role the United States has played in Africa [post 9-11???]. Prior to 9-11, the United States’ interactions were mainly [capture summary here]. Since [?], however, the continent has faced a marked increase in violent extremism and terrorism leading the United States to partner with many African nations in counterterrorism initiatives. These, and other initiatives, mean an increasing number U.S. service members are deploying to Africa to take part in training, humanitarian issues and military operations. These military activities are run by United States African Command, a recently created combatant command.
Prior to the 19th century, the Europeans traded mainly for African slaves. It turns out they were not immune towards certain diseases and therefore had an increasing risk of becoming sick. For years to come this continued, but not much land was conquered. Eventually, conference between only the Europeans was held to divide up the land appropriately, and the scramble for Africa began. The driving forces behind European imperialism in Africa were expanding empires, helping natives, and natural resources.
When Africans were brought to America during slavery they were forced to give up most of their heritage and were usually separated from their families. This common occurrence usually brought about tremendous pain and grief to the slaves. “West Africa family systems were severely repressed throughout the New World (Guttmann, 1976)”. Some slaves tried to continue practices, such as polygamy, that were a part of traditional African cultures but were unsuccessful. However, they were successful in continuing the traditional African emphasis on the extended family. In the extended family, aunts, uncles, cousins, and grandparents played important roles. Slaves weren’t allowed to marry, but they didn’t let that stop them, they created their own marriages. And through all the hardships they had placed on them, they developed strong emotional bonds and family ties. The slaves discouraged casual sexual relationships and placed a lot emphasis on marriage and stability. To maintain some family identity, parents named their children after themselves or other relatives or sometimes gave them African names.
A true saying is “Colonization often does more damage than contribution.” Colonialism encouraged Africa’s development in some areas, but in many others it severely damaged the natural progress of the continent. If colonialism was never imposed on Africa, Africa’s developments would be significantly different and many of the problems that the continent faces now would not exist today. In conclusion, at first it seems that colonialism has both positive and negative effects, but the truth is it only damages the colonized nation.
During Imperialistic times South Africa was a region of great resources that was greatly disputed over (Ellis). Europe’s main goal during these times was to compete against each other and played a “game” of which country can imperialize more African countries than the other. Imperialism was a curse to South Africa, because many wars, laws, and deaths were not necessary and would not have happened if South Africa were not imperialized.
Images have the power to shape the mind of an individual’s knowledge of a place. The world is full of beautiful cities, states, and countries. The large continent of Africa is brought together by fifty-four beautiful countries, but in the media the images misrepresent Africa as a continent. Africa is constantly portrayed as victims of poverty, violence, hunger and diseases. Also, Africans are stereotyped to be uncivilized and uneducated. These images in the media neglect the upside to these countries. The only positive images of Africa that are consistently shown are ones the safaris filled will majestic animals that graze the land. The media chooses to cover the negative side of Africa; they do not focus the achievements
Colonialism has plagued indigenous people worldwide and has spelled disaster for countless cultures, languages, and traditions. Over the past 500 years there have been different phases of colonization in Africa as well as other various parts of earth. There were many reasons behind exploration and colonization including economic and tactical reasons, religion, and prestige. Colonialism has shaped the contemporary understanding of individuals from Niger as well as other parts of Africa and other places too, like the Chambri and Tlingit people; mainly in economics. Because of the colonial past of so many cultures, numerous indigenous people today face many issues. Today colonialism is still active, known as Neocolonialism, which has devastating effects on global cultural groups.
During the 19th century, Europe found a way to use Africa for its own growth and power. Using Africa for their resources, the Europeans colonized Africa without a second thought. European imperialism in Africa had a negative impact because of social disarray, cultural loss, and death it caused. As the Europeans started to invade Africa and split up the land, they paid no attention to the already existing natural boundaries. Over time, villages with different cultures had set these boundaries.
The term Imperialism is used a means to describe a policy of formal or informal domination over a foreign land or territory, without significant settlers from the imperial centre or metropol. Within this definition there are two very different ‘branches’ for imperialism. One being ‘old’ imperialism, which refers that of the early – mid Victorian political and social climate of Britain, contrasting against ‘new’ imperialism which is said to have arisen in the later Victorian era during the 1870’s and beyond. The two terminologies have much debate and speculation as to their exact time frame and implications on not only Britain, but also the rest of the world during that time. By examining the expansion of the British Empire during the Nineteenth century and analysing the two variations of imperialism, this argumentative piece will provide a collective examination into the differences of ‘new’ imperialism versus ‘old’ imperialism, focusing on the main points of economic, social, political and ‘formal’ against ‘informal’ intention.
In this unit of our class, we went more in depth of the life of the people of Africa. The book we ready was "Things Fall Apart" by Chinua Achebe. Then in lecture about one of the last nomad tribes in Africa, the Woodabe tribe. This section was more after the colonialism, and more about how their society and people acts. What I thing was important in this section was how they view a family. Coming from a broken family, I hope that my family will not end up like my parents. Reading the book, watching the clips in class, and the lecture, we see how they view family and family matters. How the men takes multiple wives, how they raise their children, and how the men view themselves in the family. These views are not the main views of Africans today,
Overall in South Africa’s manufacturing industry there are still fundamental cultural differences between management level employees and general floor staff level employees. This verity leads to a number of predominate problems such as a difference in mind- set and general attitude towards the business. Corporate culture is often defined as “the way things are done around here” (Deal and Kennedy, 1982). It is quite clear that at the moment there is still a large gap between the ways things are done at each level of employment.
An overwhelming majority of African nations has reclaimed their independence from their European mother countries. This did not stop the Europeans from leaving a permanent mark on the continent however. European colonialism has shaped modern-day Africa, a considerable amount for the worse, but also some for the better. Including these positive and negative effects, colonialism has also touched much of Africa’s history and culture especially in recent years.