POL 540 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Humanitarian Intervention, Eurocentrism, Developing Country
12 Apr 2018
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Words used in relation to third world": famine, war torn, poverty, shit hole : trumps words in regards to haiti and africa. What are their implications: very eurocentric, denies the history behind the nation i. e. haiti has had a long history in developing itself in the world. The us in itself has played a role in making haiti the way it is (still a developing nation) First country to have a war of independence against its colonization. It was the most richest (in resources) of all the french colonies based on french slave labor. Because haiti was militarily isolated after it"s independence, to gain protection they paid the. French 150m francs (early 19c) as a fee for protection or as a compensation for the loss of a colony. The american banks helped lend money to haiti to pay off the compensation.
