The Simulation - Colonialism and Resistance to Unity

The Simulation - Colonialism and Resistance to Unity

How the Colonial Powers used faction and fear to control

Multiple Choice

What is Colonialism?

• Economic system of Control used to Dominate a territory and access resources.

• Economic partnership between an empire and the local population

• A military system bent on converting all the world into their people and territory

Colonialism

• Economic system of Domination over land and people in order to control resources Intent

• Control - Growth - Self-Sustaining Economy - Prosperity for the Dominant Culture

• Decisions made Unilaterally - Local populations not involved.

Clientelism

• Unfair, unequal, and transactional relationship between the colonial power and the local population

• I will give you basic needs/power/special treatment, in exchange for your labor/political support.

• More resources go to the group that has most closely connected themselves to the colonial power.

Fill in the Blanks

You witnessed or experienced an example of clientelism during the simulation game when

Cultural Identity

• Tribalism

• Incentives (Resources for self)

• Clientelism plays on the identity (Divide and Conquer)

• Some see opportunity for advancing their group's cause at the expense of others

• Colonial power counts division to maintain dominance.

Multiple Select

Clientelism is effective because...

• It forces groups of people to compete with each other for resources

• It divides the population based on existing divisions within a territory

• It reinforces tribalism by making groups distrust each other

• It ties the fate of some groups (their survival) to the Colonial Power

A North American Colonial Comparison

• 13 Colonies - all with varying incentives until the one thing they all cared about was threatened: Self-Governance

• Unless they all wanted to be unified under the identity chosen by the Crown, they needed to unite to ensure their "tribe" could assert their own control.

Incentives

• Keep and assert your cultural dominance by being part of the new government

• Don't join the Revolution? Lose all say in how the new government is created. Lose influence, lose resources, lose self-governance, lose the ability to establish the "norm" of your new society