Monday, January 11, 2010
Cambodia v.s. China
The Mreah prew tree in cambodia is one of its many resources that's causing a lot of problems today for its use to make high concentrated oil called safrael oil. This seamlessly harmless oil is actually in fact the main ingredient in the process of making ecstasy. Like China in the 19th century, ecstasy is slowly tearing the country apart do to its addictiveness and its attraction of smugglers. In the 19th century opium was the cause for Chinas economic and political fall. The opium not only had its nation under its control but it caused a powerful Britain to take advantage of them. We're seeing a similar case in Cambodia but the only thing that's different between these two cases is that the situation in Cambodia wasn't even near as bad as Chinas case. China went from having a rich economy to having it crumble before their eyes, and from having a well ran political system to having it too crumbling.
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I agree with a lot of what you're saying. Because of the addictive nature of drugs, the countries were torn apart from the inside out because the people themselves grew addicted. Still, the results seem to be different. While Britain hugely benefited from drug trafficking, is Cambodia that much better for it? Cambodia is the producer of the drugs, as Britain was, but Cambodians seem to be addicted just as much as the people they're selling it to. In addition, the steps it takes to get the drugs destroy the natural environment. Cambodia's case wasn't nearly as bad as China, but when you think about the benefits of who's selling and receiving, is Cambodia really doing that well?
ReplyDeleteI agree with all of your main points and I like how you incorporated the similarities and differences in a matter of a few sentences. Even though Cambodia is selling ecstasy too, they aren't benefiting much from selling the drug as British was because the British didn't take the drug they were selling, unlike the people in Cambodia. Even though the outcomes of both countries are different, they still are similar in many ways, which is what you pointed out.
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