GGR345H5 Chapter 1: Chapter 1
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4 arguments: the way the south is represented in western media, academia , policy and elsewhere is a a exercise of power that has real life consequences for the everyday lives of those living in these developing countries. These misleading representations fix an idea of these places in our minds and shape the way we respond to them: the medias representation of the south is limited and misleading. Chirstian child fund shows infomercials asking for donations from westerners to the south. Using 2 minute clips that depict the south as impoverished, needy and helpless without giving background of the prior events. Being characterized this way gives power to the northern nations when they can use these portrayals as justification for iintervention in that countrys affairs: the south is a vital and active process of globalization. Africa brought these continents together in political and economic relationships. Colonialism as well did the same thing: does not mean the world is becoming uniform.
