Examples of Scramble for Africa in the following topics:
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- In the late 19th century, many European powers were involved in the so-called Scramble for Africa, in which many African colonies were established.
- These territories were divided into three classes based on how quickly they would be ready for independence.
- The search for raw materials and new investment opportunities is the result of inter-capitalist rivalry for capital accumulation.
- Dependency theory builds upon Marxist thought, blaming colonialism and neocolonialism for poverty within the world system.
- Semiperipheral countries (e.g., South Korea, Taiwan, Mexico, Brazil, India, Nigeria, South Africa) are less developed than core nations but are more developed than peripheral nations.
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- For example, various ethnic, "national," or linguistic groups from Africa, Asia and the Pacific Islands, Latin America, and Indigenous America have long been combined together as racial minority groups (currently designated as African American, Asian, Latino and Native American or American Indian, respectively).
- The word "nationality" is more commonly used for this purpose (e.g.
- The many previously designated "Oriental" ethnic groups are now classified as the "Asian" racial group for the census.
- The term Caucasian generally describes some or all people whose ancestry can be traced to Europe, the Middle East, the Horn of Africa, North Africa, Central Asia, and South Asia.
- This includes European-colonized countries in the Americas, Australasia, and South Africa, among others.
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- In today's world, some degree of education is necessary for people in most countries.
- The majority of these children are in regions of sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.
- Enrollment is low for both boys and girls in sub-Saharan Africa, with rates of just 27% and 22%.
- In Africa, the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) has launched an e-school program.
- School children at Imperial Primary School in Eastridge, Mitchell's Plain (Cape Town, South Africa)
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- While often useful, it should be noted that GDP only includes economic activity for which money is exchanged.
- A Gini coefficient of zero expresses perfect equality, where all values are the same (for example, where everyone has the same income).
- A Gini coefficient of one (or 100%) expresses maximal inequality among values (for example where only one person has all the income).
- For larger groups, values close to or above 1 are very unlikely in practice.
- The countries in Africa had the highest pre-tax Gini coefficients in 2008–2009, with South Africa the world's highest, variously estimated to be between 0.63 to 0.7.
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- The majority of these children are in regions of sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.
- The majority of these children are in regions of sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.
- Enrollment is low for both boys and girls in sub-Saharan Africa, with rates of just 27% and 22%.
- For example, in high-altitude areas of India, severe weather conditions for more than seven months of the year make school attendance erratic and force children to remain at home.
- Enrollment is low for both boys and girls in sub-Saharan Africa, with rates of just 27% and 22%.
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- There is wide cross-cultural variation in the social rules governing the selection of a partner for marriage.
- Today, arranged marriage is largely practiced in South Asia (India, Nepal, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka), Africa, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia.
- Today, arranged marriage is largely practiced in South Asia (India, Nepal, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka), Africa, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia.
- They have also become less common because of the increasing availability of birth control, abortions, and welfare support for unwed mothers.
- In some societies, ranging from Central Asia to Africa, the custom of bride kidnapping still exists, in which a woman is captured by a man and his friends.
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- When speaking of colonialism, most people imagine the European colonization of Africa.
- In the sixteenth century, European colonization of Africa contributed significantly to European economic development.
- European colonization intensified because Europeans had just developed galleons or ships that could navigate more easily all the way to Africa.
- For decades, this debt has been politically impossible for many countries to pay off and still exists.
- External forces exert power in Africa in two ways.
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- There is no known cure for or vaccine against HIV, but antiretroviral treatment can slow the course of the disease and may lead to a near-normal life expectancy for people with HIV.
- AIDS was first recognized by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in 1981 and its cause, HIV, was identified in the early 1980s.
- Sub-Saharan Africa is the region most affected by the global HIV/AIDS pandemic.
- South Africa has the largest population of people with HIV of any country in the world, at 5.9 million.
- AIDS prevalence is distributed unequally across the world, with sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia experiencing the worst of the pandemic.
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- This may manifest as unreported employment, hidden from the state for tax, social security or labor law purposes, but legal in all other aspects.
- For example, with the adoption of more technologically intensive forms of production, many workers have been forced out of formal sector work and into informal employment.
- Whereas de Soto's work is popular with policymakers and champions of free market policies, many scholars of the informal economy have criticized it both for methodological flaws and normative bias.
- The informal economy accounts for about 15 percent of employment in developed countries such as the United States.
- By contrast, it makes up 48 percent of non-agricultural employment in North Africa, 51 percent in Latin America, 65 percent in Asia, and 72 percent in sub-Saharan Africa.
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- Consider China's current investments in Africa, which many observers have characterized as neocolonial.
- Chinese companies have invested in Africa, building infrastructure, hiring workers, and obtaining rights to extract oil and minerals.
- On the one hand, these investments could be considered free market trade: after all, China has paid for labor and mining rights.
- But the profit from this enterprise flows to China, not Africa.
- In this example, China is the core country, which gathers resources from and sells goods back to Africa, the periphery.