Surendra Bhandari, the professor of Ritsumeikan University, College of International Relations, argues that when analyzing the relationship between 19th century colonialism and contemporary globalization, “the end of colonial system of political dominance in no way implies the end of world economic dominance and exploitation” (Bhandari, 2010). Other researchers also now believe that colonialism is a form of globalization; or, that globalization is a new version of colonialism. Colonialism is a comparatively more powerful country’s political dominance over an independent, less developed country, territory, or people (Colonialism, 2012). Globalization indicates a syndrome of interaction between countries, which leads to the worldwide integration in terms of economics, culture, politics, and education (Definition of Globalization, 2010). Though showing a few distinctions, colonialism in the 19th century and the nowadays globalizing tendency have many aspects in common, regarding their causes and their influences in culture and economy on the underprivileged countries.
To begin with, colonizing is, in all likelihood, more violent and inhumane than globalization, and therefore produces more detrimental impacts on colonies. Firstly, colonizers usually started wars to open the door of underprivileged countries (Colonialism, 2012). For instance, in the first Sino-Japanese War, Chinese Qing Dynasty lost 35,000 soldiers and ended with signing Treaty of Shimonoseki, which required China to compensate 2.315 billion silver dollars as well as Taiwan, Penghu, and Liaodong Peninsula to Japan. Moreover, European colonizers also conducted other profitable activities for the sake of their expansion, the most popular being the infamous Triangular Trade (Evans, 2014). Statistics shows that around 3.3 million Africans were traded to America to work as slaves in plantations or mines, thanks to the cooperation of African kings and European merchants. Muthu Sankar, a Princeton...