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YOUTH PARTICIPATION IN GLOBAL DECISION-MAKING PROCESSES
Global Politics: Conclusion
Global Politics today is characterized by the race in the South to develop and the Northern power struggle against each other to dominate the South. Within the North, newer technologies and power structures are being invented to further indoctrinate, divide, dehumanize and dominate people. Within countries in the South, the push towards modernization continues to attack local systems, eroding even the remnants of traditional culture. Development continues to be the process of internalization of another's culture and history. The push towards globalization and global government is in motion.
These trends, scary indeed, have to be faced and tackled. There is no running away from the realities of today's world.
"The conquest of the New World set off two vast demographic catastrophes, unparalleled in history: the virtual destruction of the indigenous populations of the Western hemisphere, and the devastation of Africa as the slave trade rapidly expanded to serve the needs of the conquerors, while the continent itself was subjugated."
Noam Chomsky,
Year 501 - The Conquest Continues
Cite as: Youth Sourcebook on Sustainable Development. Winnipeg: IISD, 1995. Online. Internet. http://iisd.ca/youth/ysbk085.htm.