Essay Archive - Victims In Progress of Technology
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....
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