As migrants flowed within the British empire, Asians who arrived in Kenya were given greater access to social, educational and capitalist opportunities by the colonials, as a result of higher 'racial' status (also Bennell 1982, p131). This expanding community naturally reinforced itself, in part due to the issues of trust and networking, in the absence of openly available commercial institutions (Vandenberg 2003, p450).  ... Even in some instances when the British expressed a desire to provide better social programs for education, as in Tanganyika, there were various obstacles to t...

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Historian Ira Berlin has called members of these communities Atlantic Creoles because of their connections to different African and European social and political networks. ... Strikes in Mombasa, Lagos, Dar es Salaam, and other cities between 1945 and 1950 led colonial municipal governments to push for more social benefits for African city residents. ... Various precolonial African social orders had towns and little urban areas. However even in these social orders, the vast majority were occupied with horticulture in provincial towns or residences. ... These progressions frequently tested ex...

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Globalization is essentially a process by which an ever tightening network of ties that cut across national political boundaries connects communities in a single, interdependent whole, a shrinking world where local differences are steadily eroded and subsumed within a massive global social order (Mowforth and Munt, 1998: 12). ... The essay submits that tourism and globalization may be argued to be a deadly mix for indigenous peoples or host communities due to the negative impacts it has brought about such as commodification and erosion of culture, loss of cultural identity, social problems suc...

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During that time, the concept of great powers' born by social Darwinism which suggested "survival of the fittest nation" was prevalent and influential. ... Imperialism promoted racism and social Darwinism whereby the imperialist countries believe themselves to be of superior race to their colonized countries. ...

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Female slaves could be significant links in kinship networks, with their importance in the social system enhanced. ... "An African-American female slave would be effectively head of household even where there was a known and partially responsible father any master or mistress-supplied child welfare assistance went through the mother, and therefore strengthened the role, power, and economic position of the mother (internet)" The bonds developed by many slaves on the voyage across the Middle Passage continued and developed becoming a primary source of social organization that continued for...

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