AP Human Geography Makes You Realize How We Are In A New Era Of Colonization

AP Human Geography makes you realize how we are in a new Era of colonization

In my AP Human Geography class, we finished learning all the units just so we can be prepared for the AP test. So when I was doom scrolling away minutes of my life on tiktok, I saw a gal saying how people don't even realize that we are in a new Era of colonization, which is called Neo colonialism. Neo colonialism is uses wallerstein's world systems theory, that countries develop based off of their economic development and there are 3 phases to it. Core country's, which are country's that are economically developed and buy materials like steel to make into cars to sell to other countries, which are countries like Japan, US, and Eastern Europe. Periphery country, which are countries with barely to none economic development that sells material like steel to core countries and buy final products like cars for high and expensive prices and semi periphery countries are in-between of core and periphery like Mexico(semi) and sub Sahara Africa(periphery). Neo colonialism is when a semi or periphery country is economical dependent on a core country which influences the semi periphery and periphery countries. These can cause fixed prices on products that these semi periphery and periphery countries have on certain products(fixed prices are when the government pays farmers to keep products to have cheep prices when selling them which doesn’t benefit the country economically) or other things. It sucks and most of these are from the ashes of former colonizes.

Tldr: The new form of colonialism is neo colonialism which makes poor countries depend and be influenced by rich countries and that's bad.