From Colonization to Exploitation

Through out our history, there has been lots of cases, which a country’s been colonized, or a countries colonizing other weaker countries and there are different reasons to colonize other countries. When British colonized Australia, they came up with different reasons to colonize them. In the book 'Reasons for Colonization' by Englishman, Richard Hakluyt, he said that the main reason that the British colonized Australia was to please the God. He also justifies the colonization by stating it's purposes. For instance, he stated that it was for the 'The glory of God by planting of religion among those infidels', 'The increase of the force of the Christians' and to The possibility of the enlarging of the dominions of the Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty, and consequently of her honor, revenues, and of her power by this enterprise'. In addition, they came to traffic and to conquer. However, if you observe the purposes that the book had proposed that they are all for the good of religions and the Kings/ Queens. Rather than showing the negative actions that the colonizers had done to the Aboriginals.
Another glimpse of colonization could be shown in the poem, White Man's Burden by Rubyard Kipling. This poem sounds like that it was written so the Americans will be influenced to colonize the Philippines. He influence the Americans by stating different reasons through out his poem. This poem I believe has a great similarity with the main ideas of the book: 'Reasons for Colonization' which makes it even more interesting. To begin with, when the poem states, 'To seeks another’s profit, and work another’s gain' gives us the meaning that it is to show that the colonizers wants to gain profits/ money. This is reasonable since in America during these times, were many jobs which will make the Americans to be persuade more easily. Which is showing that there were increasing amount of colonizers at a specific places.

Colonization I believe occurs in many different ways and it leads to exploitation in different matters too. However, they do not realize that even though they colonize the other countries thinking of helping, or giving no harms, their behaviors changes and they mostly end up with giving severe impact to the people (aboriginals). For instance, like the event in Australia, first they looked like they understand each other, however, after a while, the British had over taken the Australia with their modern technology including the weapons. To sum up, colonization could lead to being exploitation because of the stronger countries being power thirsty and find other countries to be theirs.