Assignment 9 - Jimmy Chen

One issue I have a big passion for is the effects of decolonialization in many parts of the world. After colonial nations like the British left many regions of the world, they kind of just carved it up with no regard for many ethnic, political, and religious identities of the people there. This has just created a big mess in many of the regions leaving split communities, corruption, a huge political mess, and genocide. Many of the issues we face in the modern world can stem from these events, take for example, the middle east. This is one of the heartlands of the human race, where human civilization first emerged, but in today's world, it's political mess and its issues started to spill over into other parts of the world such as the U.S. So how did it end up like this? When the British and French were splitting up the middle east, they did so looking at some ethnicity maps but really did a bad job, as you can see from all the straight lines taking no attention to detail, they made many new nations that made almost no sense. This is the cause for many regime collapses all over the world during the Arab Spring, leading to the rise of many organizations and civil war and internal and external fighting. If the colonist had spent more time and thought into creating the new nations as they left, the current state of the Middle East would not have ended up like this.