Effects Of Imperialism

Mankind has come a long way since the beginning of time. People have evolved and made life easier for themselves. Different cultures have formed and different mindsets and ideas have been put forward. Often cultures cross and mix and new cultures are formed and if they don’t mix, conflicts break out. Different peoples come together for different reasons; whether it is a religion, similar ideas, or cultural activities. These occurrences are referred to, as crossroads, now crossroads can either be physical place, like a border or a port or a trading market or intersections reflected in practices of everyday life.
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“Missionaries brought another kind of disorder, as the Boxer Rebellion demonstrated. European missionaries rushed newly secured areas of Africa and Asia.”, the missionaries main function was to spread religion, and they made a crossroad to new found lands to spread their beliefs and ideas. “In the Qing Empire as well, with foreign powers in control of revenue collections as a result of the Opium War, taxes were no longer used for upkeep of the reservoirs, irrigation systems, or even water ways that might have transported aid to stricken regions.”, in this instance, the crossroad failed the nations that were involved, the foreign powers took the wrong steps and inevitably led to the sickness of native population. Often times this occurred and imperialism was looked at in a negative way and cultural diffusion was taboo and frowned upon in most nations, because the “outsiders” could not be trusted. At the same time imperialism greatly improved most nations “the imperial powers aimed to transform local life with new public health programs, in large part to protect their own soldiers and officials”, imperialism greatly changed life in less developed countries, and countries that were more developed often clashed with the imperializing power and conflict