ANTA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: World Bank, Structural Adjustment
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Lecture 4: sugar is a colonial good, sugar plantation in madagascar. Lot of similarities in the caribbean countries and. All these places were colonized: look at the role of sugar and the people involved in sugar from the colonial past to the post colonized world, chinese role in sugar plantation. The first generation of chinese immigrants was brought by the french to work on these plantations. Chinese companies: sugar as one produce was able to move all these labours and slaves from china and africa to being them to the caribbean, slavery and exploited relationship being the colonizers and the people that are colonized. The relationship between the chinese managers and the people working are not equal. Also economy wise the french companies are still in control like oil, tele communication companies etc. A lot of former colonized countries still depend on their colonizers: cold ward --> united states and soviet union were fighting.
