The Impacts Of National States After 1945 In The Third World War

National states were formed after 1945 in the global south, also known as Third World countries or Developing countries. These Global South’s are known as Africa, Asia and Latin America and in this essay it will be explained how census, mapping and museums became essential to these Third World countries when creating nation states after 1945. This essay will also explain the effects of postcolonial states on today’s society.
Charles Hirschmas, a sociologist, found that there was a rapid series of changes within the categories that were constantly being reordered and he drew on two conclusions from these changes. The first change being that the colonial period allowed for census to be more exclusively racial and the second change having large
This stage can be found within museums. Sites became protected by empire because of the emergence of colonial archaeology. Only in the 19th century did colonial rulers in Southeast Asia take interest in antique artefacts of the people they ruled. After Thomas Stamford Raffles, the first prominent colonial official to collect artefacts ancient sites were photographed, measured and analysed making archaeological services influential. Museums became essential to preserving tradition against modernization and using tradition to ultimately control the population. Archaeological restoration, restoring artefacts, became part of traditional literary texts sponsored by the state which lead to a conservative educational program. The restoration also lead to placing building of monuments in a hierarchy and lessened the talk about the right to conquer because more and more Europeans were being born in Southeast Asia making it their homes. Post-independence states have inherited this form of collecting and analyzing artefacts as seen in November 1986 when Cambodia’s celebrated their 15th anniversary of independence. Their celebrations were centred around a wood replica of Great Bayon Temple which was exhibited in the national stadium. Many critics say the replica is quite crude; however the replica can be understood through a history of colonial conquest.
The effect of a totalizing classification grid which could be applied to anything from people to regions and religion was the ability to create a sense of certainty by classifying things in one type of group only. Pramoedya Ananta Toer, an Indonesian novelist, describes an idea of ‘total surveyablitly’ which he claims the colonial state did not wish to create some sort of human landscape with everyone just seen as a serial number. He claims this was caused by technologies of navigation, surveying and