Gandhi voiced his apprehension towards the modern civilization in Hind Swaraj's fifth edition published in 1922. He said, "This booklet is a severe condemnation of 'modern civilization"2. ... Gandhi disagreed with various aspects of 'modern civilization', the political and judicial system, the creation and use of railways, professions such as lawyers and doctors and even modern day religious practices. ... Although he was predominantly against modern civilization, there were parts of it, he believed, that would help India. ... " Again this is clearly Gandhi...

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In both nations wars and violence had arose but new technologies that were imported by the west helped the civilizations prosper. ... The Boer War was fought in 1899 but in the end the British came out triumphant, as they had advanced weapons and machinery with modern tactics. ... A major similarity is that Westernization brought along with it new technologies that allowed these regions to thrive and prosper. ... Both suffered prejudices but appreciated the new technologies and administrative systems that the western civilizations had brought with them. ...

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Beginning around the 1700s, under the development of technology in many aspects, the Europeans started their expedition to explore the world. ... Imperialists apparently brought a catastrophe into Africa while they even caused a lot of leftover problems to the modern Africa. ... With better-developed technology, Europeans started to believe that they enjoyed superiority in all aspects, including economics, culture and race. ... In 1800s, the advantage of technology entitled Europeans to be arrogant and to claim themselves as a superior race over Africans. ...

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In the late nineteenth century, European nations sought to dominate countries in Asia and Africa, this period of time known as the "New Imperialism."" The drive to expand power pass European borders led to war and rivalry between European powers and their colonies. The drive for more land led Europe...

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New levels of technology that had never been seen in Africa were introduced, such as electricity and telecommunications. Some Africans benefited from these developments intended for all, but new forms of inequality and tensions arose when the colonial powers left: between traditional and modern, upper class and lower, and urban and rural, where there had not been such tensions before. Without opportunities created by the linking of Africa to the western world, it is unlikely that indigenous ruling classes would have catapulted themselves from pre-capitalist levels of wealth to modern bourgeois...

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Yes, it is indeed that the colony of Spain and Americans had a great help to prosper our country; the Spain by its legacy of Christianity and Americans by introducing the modern educational system in the Philippines. ... Well all I can say is that, nowadays it is indeed very hard for us to deal with it simply because most of us Filipinos don't even care about it, due to its modern technology and attitudes that we already attain especially in the urban areas lots of our citizens are already captive then. ...

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New levels of technology that had never been seen in Africa were introduced, such as electricity and telecommunications. Some Africans benefited from these developments intended for all, but new forms of inequality and tensions arose when the colonial powers left: between traditional and modern, upper class and lower, and urban and rural, where there had not been such tensions before. Without opportunities created by the linking of Africa to the western world, it is unlikely that indigenous ruling classes would have catapulted themselves from pre-capitalist levels of wealth to modern bourgeois...

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Thus, the Ghanaians living in the colonial region had no access to acquire the "modern" skills from the westerners. ... The peasant farming means small-scale farmers, using family labor, cultivate a limited land area at a relatively low level of technology (Vercruijsse, 1988). ...

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The challenges presented by poor technology, labor and higher capital required in the production of silver and cost of shipping was no longer profitable to the European Markets. ... Production of silver experienced declined due to various factors like lack of mercury used to process ores, labor shortages and insufficient capital and technology to excavate below the surface of ground. ... Some modern refiners used advanced technique of amalgamation, a method used by crushing the ore, combining it with mercury and salt and then heating the mixture for long period of time to extract silver after ...

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Africa's people and culture have been subject to many external changes that left a trace in the way they think and act nowadays. Conquests, colonization, the slave trade, Arabic and European cultural elements, Islam and Christianity and recently the spread of consumerist society have all transformed...

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When the cities and territories become wider and expanded, there was a close collaboration with the development of science & technology around the world, the USA's National Academy of Sciences happens to be developing a large effort to promote scientific swap and to help build and support the capacity of local governments in smaller cities in the developing world to address their own serious metropolitan challenges. ... From Cape Coast in modern Ghana to Luanda in Angola, founded in 1579 by the Portuguese, Atlantic port towns nominally under European control helped to foster a cosmopolita...

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The European imperialists had used the lack of literacy and advanced technology among the colonies to make local rulers sign treaties to become protectorates whereby they accepted protection from the Europeans. ... Cecil Rhodes, a British quintessential capitalist and the outstanding imperialist of his day, once said " I contend that we [British] are the finest race in the world, and the more of the world we inhabit, the better it is for the human race" The Europeans considered it a 'Whiteman's burden'1 to civilize the rest of the world 2and legitimizes new imperialism as a ...

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One of Africa's leading critics and theorists of the mass media, Cehn Chimutengwende (1992) notes: 'The mass media have long been recognized in developing countries as essential auxiliary means of modern economic construction, social and cultural development. ... In the early communication research tradition led by Everett Rogers, Wilbur Schramm and Daniel Lerner during the 1960s, modern communication media were idealized as powerful instruments for achieving the announced goals of socio-economic modernization, national integration and cultural expression. ...

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