Western Expansionism

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This paper examines the advantages and disadvantages of the prosperity of Western expansionism in order to demonstrate that expansionism's value for European nations, in all probability, did not fairly equate to the inflated price that the innocent were forced to pay. It analyzes the effect of Western influence from colonization to the cultural influences on Eastern countries, such as China and Tibet.

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"With expansionism to North America, European countries largely brought death and destruction to the native populations. Smallpox epidemics and the advent of western diseases like chicken pox and measles decimated the native populations of North America who had little or no natural immunity to these diseases, and settlers and governments forced native populations off their traditional lands. In addition, the traditional cultures of many native populations were lost, as elder members passed away, and did not pass on this knowledge to younger members of the splintered tribes. While it is true that today Canada and the United States are prosperous nations, this prosperity has largely come to the descendants of the colonialist powers, rather than to the Native American groups that were the targets of this expansionism."

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