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What are the effects of global expansion or modernization to Indigenous Societies?

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How does modernization deprive these Indigenous societies from their human rights?

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  1. These cultures and societies will face enormous challenges, and will likely face cultural change.  Without making value judgments, one would expect the same kind of trend that has faced traditional indigenous societies: culture change and gradual cultural extinction.  

    Globalization and modernization rarely cares for traditional societies and cultures.  These cultures will have to modify themselves and adapt to the global changes that are being imposed from outside in order to survive.  The two are not incompatible, and don't have to result in cultural extinction or absorption or assimilation.  

    Some famous examples are the rallying together of the Native Americans, particularly the Kayapo Culture, along the Xingu River in Brazil.  These people actively opposed the construction of a hydroelectric dam across the Xingu River, part of the Amazon River Basin.  This traditional culture integrated such modern technological devices such as video cameras to record treaty negotiations with the Brazilian government, and used them against the government when they tried to go back on their word.  They also integrated their use in recording their own tribal ceremonies and dances.  So, it is not all one sided.  

    The other example is the Kung! Bushmen of southern Africa.

    It has been discovered that in their traditional culture and society that there is a root of a plant that can naturally curb appetite.  The chemical substance of this plant has been discerned through ethnobotannical studies, and a pharmacutical company got wind of this, and decided to make a big profit from this knowledge.  Anthropological activists who were advocates of the !Kung, intervened and forced a share of the profits to go to these peoples, who had been hitherto relegated to reservations, sedentary existence in this once nomadic hunter-gatherer traditional society.

    Most of the time, however, the rights of these traditional societies are trodden upon, from benign occurence to out and out deliberate genocide, such as the example of the indigenous peoples of Tasmania.


  2. You should get a book for this.  It mostly has to do with globalization and the necessity for industrializing societies to specialize their work skills to compete.  Indigenous societies lose culture in the process.

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