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A 10 page paper on how the world in light of shared technology and new democracies has caused alarm for peoples in third world countries, whose natural and human resources have been utilized in the past by first world countries to maintain economic superiority. This has special significance to countries with widely dispersed forms of government and large uneducated populaces. Many sociological theories behind poverty and its relationship to capitalism/nationalism are being debated in light of efforts by third world countries, including older theories, such as dependency, and newer theories based in theological, historiographical and entrepreneurial relationships to the sociological question. FREE outline included, Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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recent changes Peter Berger is referring to in the above quote is the change from nationalist forms of government, most particularly capitalism and global democracy. This move has inherent
problems to the economies and peoples of third world countries. It has been theorized that in order for the 1st World to become and remain wealthy, it must
draw on the resources of the 3rd World. Writing in support of the African Pan-American movement, Ranu Samatrai states that "it is significant that the agenda of successive meetings
of nonaligned nations moved from an initial emphasis on the Cold War and colonialism to questions of imperialism, unequal trading relationships, and the new information order. It was realized
that economic dependence, indebtedness, and cultural imperialism were as great, if not greater, dangers to sovereignty as was military invasion" (Samantrai, 1995, p. 140(18)). The realization she speaks of
is recent, and it is a realization that the new world democracy is endangering the sovereignty of third world states. Poverty in third world countries has been traditionally viewed in
a relationship that correlates to the economic success of capitalist/nationalist (first world) states to the natural and human resources of less powerful (third world) states. The major force behind
the current problem is the current rate of consumerism, which relies on reduced costs to the businesses of first world states by exploiting the cheaper resources available in third world
states. The United States, Great Britain, France and Germany have a long history of overutilizing the natural and human resources of third world nations for this purpose.
By consuming these resources, first world governments keep their economics sound, while severely undermining the prospects of any change in economic status of the third world states. The resources
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