Essays on Backwardness

Issues in East Asian Studies

Deng Xiaoping is the Chinese revolutionary and politician, unofficially – he is the head of the country. This man became known throughout the world due to his political and economic ideas. He played a very important role in the development of the country. Since the late 1970s and the early 1990s, he proclaimed the policy of economic reform and the building of socialism with the "Chinese characteristics." During his campaign, the Celestial Empire became a strong and developed state. He put forward the idea of ​​China and Taiwan's unification on the principle of "one country – two systems". In the world, ...

The role of education is very crucial for the development of the society and welfare. Education plays an important role in enlightening and creating awareness and removing dogmatism and backwardness among members of the society (Apple 27). From early childhood education through primary education to advanced learning, humans undergo a process of learning to hone their critical thinking, spur creativity and build a society of knowledgeable men and women (Golub 10). As a major in education, I am concerned about the roles of education in the society, and in particular, how the socio-economic development of a community can be ...

Undoubtedly, Ethiopia has passed a long way of the state formation, and today, it continues to fight for its development and better living conditions. For a long time, this country has been a territory of the various military operations, which greatly slowed down its development. In addition to the external political problems, Ethiopia also has a number of the internal problems, which primarily relate to its political system and climate-related disasters. After the Second World War, has begun to restructure the pre-existing political and economic systems, which caused its general instability and socio-economic backwardness. In addition, a crucial factor ...

What happens when we base ethical certainties on contingent social norms?

The ethical issues associated with affirmative action and race are highly intractable. The reason for this is that they affect the individual and the collective in a way that may alter their course of life. A university may deny admission to a student because of its affirmative action policy and the student may feel wronged. The feeling may be shared by the race or a social group the student belongs to. Additionally, these issues have become complicated as legal and constitutional questions are entangled with them. If ethical certainties are based on contingent social norms, it may not be ...

Southeast Asia is located in the territory of the Indochinese Peninsula and the numerous islands of the Malay Archipelago. The region includes ten countries: Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, Laos, Cambodia, Indonesia, Philippines, Brunei, Singapore, and East Timor. A major air and sea routes lie through the countries of Southeast Asia: the Strait of Malacca is as important for global shipping, as the Strait of Gibraltar, the Suez and Panama canals. Brunei is one absolute monarchy among the countries in the region. There are also three constitutional monarchies - Thailand, Cambodia, and Malaysia; all other are republics (Reid 7). The region ...

Abstract

Over the years, the countries of the Arab world have struggled with economic backwardness and various socio-political issues. Activation and intensive development of the Arab world began about 50 years ago. After the Second World War, Middle Eastern countries began economic and political integration, which allowed them to achieve a higher level of progress and strengthen their position in the world. Many researchers argue that the development of the Arab countries and their integration with the West caused the development of terrorism. Only a few decades ago, such reality as terrorism did not exist, but in the last decade, ...

Traditional narrative often paints Latin America as a defenseless victim of international lust for power. Latin America has habitually been thought of as a poor region full of merry people being always exploited by countless empires or armies of greedy people willing to sack their seemingly endless resources. The fact that this region full of hard working people and vast resources, is still one of the least developed areas in the world, might lead anyone to believe they are under a permanent spell cast by the great world powers, especially the United States, that condemn them to eternal poverty. Many would claim ...

Introduction

Poverty is a phenomenon of socio-oriented order. It is projected on the economy, social relations, politics, and culture, directly affects such basic characteristics of a person’s life as health and education. Therefore, it is important to understand what constitutes poverty in recent decades and what will happen to it in the near future. Between “gold” and “hungry” billions there is an old abyss, they have contrasting levels of quality and lifestyle. In the era of globalization, social and economic polarization of humanity at the extremes increases. At the beginning of 21st century the share of the most developed countries ...

Introduction:

Muslim women and their stereotype have always been the topics of discussion, particularly in Western Media. The Western media has created a dark and negative image about entire Muslim community and Muslim women. They are treated either with sympathy or suspicion. In United States and other Western countries, a certain image has been created about Muslim women. This image is certainly not positive. The Muslim women are underestimated and people do not believe in their ability to change the world. I want to put before the readers some facts about Muslim women through which I want to refute such misconceptions. That ...

How Stalin succeeded in transforming the U.S.S.R. Stalin’s plans to achieve the modernization of the Soviet Union through rapid industrialization and the collectivization of the land transformed the Soviet Union, but came with an immense cost in human suffering. How was Stalin able to pursue such inhumane policies without risking insurrection or revolt? This paper examines five sources in order to answer that question. It will be seen that through a mixture of tyranny and terror, through propaganda designed to bolster the cult of personality, and through associating himself the legacy of Lenin, Stalin was able to achieve ...

Arguably, globalization has influenced the world in various ways. As a matter of fact, the multinational corporations are one of the bodies whose existence in a nation influences negatively and positively. In Nigeria, there are multinational corporations whose activities affect various aspects namely political, economic, and social. Political economists in Nigeria assert that Multinational Corporations in Nigeria (MNCs) are the cause of Nigeria’s economic backwardness. In this case, Multinational Corporations in Nigeria are remarkably exploitative in nature. In general perspective, Multinational Corporations in Nigeria have negative effects to the nation.

It is evident that MNCs activities in Nigeria have negative ...