Victim Of Progress Research Paper

Victims of Progress

Sydnee Irene Masuen

Monterey Peninsula College

Keywords: Modernization, Victims of Progress, Indigenous Peoples

Abstract Indigenous people of this world are very important to our society, and the reason for this being is because there are not a lot of indigenous people left in this world. Modernization has wiped out, and is continuing to wipe out more and more of the indigenous people in this world. These indigenous people are not willingly giving up there life to modernization, but are being forced into because they have no other choice but to. With their land being taken over, and things that are disrupting their traditional diets it makes it hard for the indigenous people to continue how they have lived their lives …show more content…
Although these indigenous people can’t grow crops where they live, modernization has affected them too. For thousands of years they have lived off an almost fully pure meat diet. Since places are advancing and there are becoming more stores all over the world that means that these stores are becoming closer to indigenous people. When these store become closer to indigenous people it makes it easier for them to access it therefore changing their traditions, and their way of doing things that they have been doing for thousands of years. This causes modernization to have an effect on their life too making them victims of progress as well. Making the indigenous people change their ways has a huge effect on their lives in many ways. The article “The Price of Progress” talks about how indigenous people are being forced to change because of different countries, cities, and communities. These countries are changing the way that they are doing things, and are trying to take over the indigenous people’s resources and are taking advantage of these people because the only reason they want these people to move is for their natural resources. Causing these people to move makes them change their lifestyle completely because moving to a new place means, new resources, new food, and new …show more content…
Their bodies get used to it and they become immune to all of the things around them because that culture has lived in that area for so long causing them to not get diseases very often. With modernization happening and countries continuing to keep pushing them out of their habitats, that causes them to live in new habitats where a lot of things may be different. This causes that immunity that they once had to go away because now the new land that they are living on may be introducing new diseases. Another cause of this is because their diets are having to change. When they are being moved out of their areas, those couple species of animals that they had been hunting for hundreds of years might not be in the new area that they are living in causing them to change a lot of things they do. The new animals that are in their area now they might not know how to hunt, and then they will have to do whatever they can to survive. This might cause their nutrition levels to go down which makes them more prone to sickness and