Contemporary Society Has Done Enough to Respond to the Legacies of Historical Globalization

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Criteria: What acts have actually been made to respond to the legacies of historical globalization? How have these effects been made in trying to respond to historical globalization? What has changed since then? What has not changed?
Position: I disagree that contemporary society has done enough to respond to the legacies of historical globalization for many reasons.
Reasons: Some of the reasons I think this statement is not true are, even thought society has improved since historical times, society still has many problems and is nowhere near being a perfect world and fixing every flaw. We see and hear about people around us getting hurt everyday from various issues that have not been solved, yet we have not made a serious effort in order to stop issues that are happening around us every day, if human beings tried harder to make change there is the possibility that society as a whole would become better place to live for everyone. If everyone honestly wanted to end all problems in the world, there should be a greater effort put in to stop them.
Examples: Slavery; slavery is still playing an active role in today’s society, in fact, Kevin Bales, the lead researcher of global slavery index, recently discovered that despite the fact that slavery today is illegal in all places, there are still 29.8 million people involved in hidden slavery right now. Most likely the majority of hidden slavery is happening underground and in places where we cannot see. A few days ago there were three women discovered in a home who were forced into the act of slavery for 30 years. Although many people may think that slavery has been an inactive part of society for many years, in reality, today we still have the ability to buy a slave for just $90.

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...major human rights violations and show no signs of stopping anytime soon. On a positive note, genocide is not something that is able to happen overnight which means we would be notified and given the chance to prevent it before it starts
Questions: Not all problems have been solved, but some still have been changed so why are you so convinced that nothing has been changed? In what ways do you believe that society has not done enough to make change? There have been many changes made and effort put in to try to decrease the amount of slavery and poverty in the world, yet it is still existing today so why do you believe that modern society has done enough in an effort to respond when it is clearly not ever today? Why have no changes been made by on lookers and why do we just watch tragedy happen? In what ways do you believe that society has done enough to make change?

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