Monday, September 29, 2008

Roles performed by the Global South to the Global North

  1. supplier of raw materials/primary products
  2. source of cheap and docile labor force (manufacturing, services)
  3. dumping ground of its surplus commodities
  4. repository of its toxic and electronic wastes
  5. extension of its financial capital expansion
  6. extension of its mcdonaldized culture (coca-colonization)
  7. launching pad and venue of its war of aggression

    Anything else?

DS 100

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