Colonial Patterns

COLONIAL PATTERNS IN TODAY’S WORLD: HOW GLOBAL RESOURCES

ARE BEING SHARED AND BUSINESS IS AFFECTED

Submitted to:

Dr. Abu Yousuf Md. Abdullah

Professor

Course: International Marketing

BBA Program

Submitted by:

Group 12

Abreshmee Adeeba Haque (RH-106)

Ahmed Tashfiq Rafsan (ZR-107)

Amiya Dhara Halder (RH-121)

Moyukh Mahtab (ZR-126)

BBA 21st

Institute of Business Administration,

University of Dhaka

24 March, 2016

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SYNOPSIS

Although colonization in its earliest of form has seized to exist, there is a new form of

colonization in the 21st century. Resources are unequally divided and the already rich nations

are further exploiting the developing countries to squeeze every bit of advantage. For

instance, organizations such as Walmart are importing RMG from Bangladesh at a low cost

owing to the cheap labor here and are selling the products at a significant margin in the U.S

leaving very little for the suppliers themselves. Numbers further show that in 2008, about 40

percent of all of the raw materials consumed around the world were used to manufacture

exported goods - some 70 billion tons of raw materials, all told. And the amounts used for the

manufacture of products imported by the rich countries far exceeded the contents of the

products these wealthy nations ultimately purchased in the form of imports.

PRESENTATION OUTLINE

A brief history of colonization and decolonization

Colonization was the most common form of overseas/international expansion for European

powers from the time of the Renaissance. Writings by Karl Marx, Aime Cesaire, Frantz

Fanon, Jean Paul Sarte and Edward Said, to name a few, had been the most vocal proponents

of decolonization in the 1900s. After World War II, a wave of decolonization swept the

world, and most of what is now known as the third world emerged from the former colonies

of the great empire. Shortly after WWII, India, Pakistan, and subsequently Bangladesh came

into being as nation states....