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THE CONSEQUENCES OF IMPERIALISM
Social and cultural
The colonising countries imposed Western culture on the
indigenous culture
were relegated to a second-class status
indigenous people
Social and racial segregation developed
This racial segregation continued
until recently in many colonies
because the colonists considered themselves
superior to the indigenous people
Political
The colonies
because of their strategic and economic value
became the scene of political rivalry
between the colonising powers for dominion of territories
sometimes leading to war
The climate of tension and competition
that developed in colonial areas
between 1870 and 1914
was one of the causes of the First World War
Economic
Indigenous artisan crafts could not compete
with the colonists' manufactured products
and gradually disappeared
The colonising country dominated the colonial market
The world economy was organised unequally
because the exploitation of valuable resources
and the organisation of trade were controlled
by the colonising countries
This led to the economic dependence of the
colonies on their colonising country
This was the origin of the huge differences
we can see today between
developed and developing countries
The colonists displaced the indigenous tribes from their land
to establish their single crop plantations, such as:
tea
used the indigenous people as labourers
often with very poor conditions
cocoa
coffee
They also acquired rights to extract mineral resources
The result was
the imposition of a single crop
which left the indigenous people without their traditional
resources and means of survival
extraction economy
Infrastructure, such as:
ports
railways
focused on importing and exporting products
Demographic
The pressure of population growth in colonising countries
especially in European countries
was lessened by the emigration of inhabitants to the colonies
The population in the colonies increased
because of the decrease in mortality rates
due to improvements in
hygiene
(vaccinations) introduced by the colonising countries
health
The birth rate remained constant though
which led to rapid population growth
Resources were insufficient to maintain the population
causing starvation and poverty
