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2 Strategies of Colonization I. The Iberian Model: (Portuguese, Spanish) “Take and Enslave” Extract valuable resources to take home (often using native slave labor) while converting the indigenous population to Christianity, which values servitude and the humble servant mentality. II. The British Model (Anglo) “Make us pay for stuff” Create Markets, as for Oil today (make us buy even though we created it; even workers will pay for the final product) GANDHI’s response: spin our own cotton; make our own salt Arguments Against Iberian Model: (Mexican Colonizations) People are not machines or mere tools (Kant); people are autonomous: choose! Slavery is immoral (Locke, Kant, etc.) People of color DO have souls (Papal Bull decreed); thus they can be converted. Spiritual service is not slavery. Arguments Against British Model Creating markets is inefficient and unecological, dislocating goods and incurring transportation costs and waste Local cultures and products are eaten up by the “economy of scale” of the Big Guys, e.g. Wal-Mart, McDonald’s. People producing the coffee and food cannot afford to buy it in the market…. …because it’s shipped and packaged elsewhere… or they must reimport it! After Petroleum (Oil, Gas) Once transporting the goods to and from processing industries is too expensive,….(when oil runs out)… Local control, production, consumption will again be cost-effective Those profiting from the market colonization will not control the markets Society will change drastically! Bikes! Ethical Challenges in GLOBALIZATION Globalization is (def, Merrill?): Takeover, by a transnational corporation, nation, or culture; “erasure of national boundaries for economic purposes.” Globalization “undercuts the ability of nations to internalize environmental and social costs into prices.” so that as John Ruskin said, “that which SEEMS to be wealth is in verity but a gilded index of FAR-REACHING ruin.” What is “Globalization” and WTO? “Globalization” Video showed ser