modern day slavery
January 20, 2010
Majority thinks that time has past when humans fight with each other for power of land and authority, but if a close eye is given to the modern world it can be easily detected that still there is tendency of lust for power and influence in economically strong countries towards economically weak countries. Developed countries preach democracy, human rights and equality to third world countries and forgot themselves to do so. People say that in past humans due to ignorance suppressed other human beings and in modern times education has lessen such attitude.
modern day slavery
This all needs a close consideration before any conclusions. Humanistic approach everywhere in the world has drawn attention form the present form of past inequalities and injustices, humans are in habit of doing to others when one is influential and other not, to the humanitarian idea of love and peace. This covers the dark side of those having influence due to the resources and technology. Developed counties in the form of help not only influence the policies of the countries they help but practically everything in that country. This is; that is happening through out the world. In the name of helping third world countries, in the beautiful veil of international law all the influential developed countries imposes there own will on the grant accepting country. This is an old tradition that the favored one has to say yes to the favor giver. This is the modern form of past; thus chain of slavery. History says that when a weak nation took favor from a powerful country in return that country has to accept the words and laws of that country and saying NO was considered as disobedience. Same happens today the third world countries who take favors from developed ones have to say Yes whether they want it or not. Same old story, slavery of powerful one by the weak one.
Even the so called organizations working for global peace are practically brotherhood of few countries that have the power to make others obey by economical and nuclear mean. Countries having hold over economy by offering help to the developing countries take over their hold from the polices and laws of that countries from the actual possessors of the land. Some rejects this by pointing towards the humanitarian work performed by NGO’s. It can be simply answered that if they have just an eye view of the investors they will get to know that they are not governmental grants but small contributions from common people living in a country as the name also clarifies Non governmental organization. Humanitarian work is performed by these organizations not by governments of other countries which invest only with the intentions of getting benefit not in the form of money (which they do get mostly) but in other forms (access to resources in a very low amount). So, it can not be said that education has abolished the slavery and inhuman attitude rather it has changed the style only. Previously such things were openly manifested but now they have taken the form of decency. In that upper decent behavior lays the same instinct of rule the weak. Still those who have economic stability are ruling over those who do not have it. No doubt human have changed from the past but like it is said some things never change; the desire to rule has not changed in different forms it still continues. Slavery has now forms of economic dependence, subordination to the developed countries in polices and imposition of ideology Slaves may have ended but slavery has not.
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