The Cuban Missile Crisis, also known as the Caribbean Crisis was a 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union concerning American ballistic missile deployment in Italy and Turkey with consequent Soviet ballistic missile deployment in Cuba.
There are plenty of evidences offered by proponents of both the sides of the question whether racism preceded slavery or vice versa.
Racism has its origins in the very beginning of the human society as there has always been prejudice, fear and hatred towards people who are different in their colour or place of origin.
Ruth Benedict was one of the first scholars to define racism in her book Race and Racism thus: “the dogma that one ethnic group is condemned by nature to congenital inferiority and another group is destined to congenital superiority”. Racism is only one of the contributing factors for justifying slavery. Racial prejudice of the dark skinned Africans by the white skinned Europeans was one of the major causes of the transatlantic slave trade. This trade was further reinforced by the racist ideology that considered the superiority of whites over the blacks. According to the UNESCO, the slaves were considered as property that was moveable and had no rights of possession or contract. The world body reiterates the view that racism was used for legitimising the slave trade and all its horrifying practices.
Women were supposed to read and write only in Japanese, which separated them through language from government and the power structure.
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The growth of cash crops in Africa are likely to increase economic growth and development in the areas where they are cultivated, because these crops respond to international demand, and do tend to have a higher price than other crops. However, it is to be seen if the economic flow of money from the cash crops reach the majority of the population, or only flow to the hands of a few people.
Enviromentally-wise, cash crops could be damaging to the soils, leading to soil depletion. They could also cause more deforestation because there is an economic incentive to clear out forest and replace it with cash crop plantations.
