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Victims In Progress Of Technology

Technologies' place in society has increased dramatically since the
industrial revolution era. The public's view of technology has been one of
positivism, meaning that science(technology) leads to progress and that
progress, in return, is positive. Those countries which enjoy such
technologies have formed ethnocentric ideals about themselves, which has
led to their efforts in industrializing the rest of the world. In this
process, cultures and traditions are being dismissed as backwards, so that
industrialized countries can move in and take control. Anthropologist John
H. Bodley, in his book Victims in Progress, relates how technological
societies are in fact destroying, rather than ...

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As we have learned over the past few decades, are resources
are limited and must be conserved properly. Tribal societies are a shining
example of how to manage these resources, because they only use and eat
what they need without wasting valuable resources. To demonstrate let us
examine Bodley's study of the Maori tribe. The Maori tribe, settled in New
Zealand during the age of expansion, allowed and even aided settlers in
colonizing on the island. As the number of white settlers grew, they began
to seek and take more and more land from the Maori tribe. When the Maori
tribe began to resist, the colonizing governments rationalized that they
were interfering with industrial and commercial progress a nd declared ...

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Added: 5/21/2005 01:44:18 PM
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