During our stay in Oxford we ventured into to London many times. One of the times I went to visit the Tower of London. The Tower contains the Beauchamp Tower which held many high-ranking prisoners such as Ann Boleyn, the chapel of St. John, the Bloody Tower, and my favorite part the Crown Jewels. This is the world’s best-known collection of precious objects, now displayed in an exhibit. This exhibit contains gorgeous regalia of crowns, scepters, orbs, and swords used at coronations and other state occasions. Most of them date back to 1661, when Charles II commissioned replacements for regalia destroyed by parliament after the execution of Charles I. The Jewel house also contains the world’s two largest diamonds the first star of Africa and the second star of Africa. These diamonds were excavated from Africa by Europeans, not sold to the Europeans.
This is an example of patterns of colonization. Colonization is the act or process of establishing control over a country of area by a more powerful and often distant country. The Europeans went into Africa and took what they wanted, jewels. The core nations, which are nations of high growth that engulf other nations to ensure ongoing political and economic success, such as Great Britain came in and took the jewels from the peripheral nation of Africa. A peripheral nation is a nation that is dependent on core nations for trade and income. This resulted f patterns of colonization in Africa, eventually causing parts of Africa to become a metropolis. England sipened the diamond resources from the poorer nation of Africa.
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Some would argue that the U.S. is the result of colonization as well. After all, a more powerful nation (Britain) took the land by force from the Native Americans and settled it for themselves. The question is, what do you do about it now? It's a little late to back out and give the land back to its rightful owners (which has a certain sense of irony, since the Native Americans would disagree with the premise that ANYONE can "own" the land). Assuming that colonization is a bad thing, what does the next generation do about the sins of its predecessors? Just a thought.
//Will//
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