Today in class, we talked about a lot of different topics, but one that came up a lot was the idea of neo-colonialism, or current day colonialism. Basically, colonialism is when one country is in control of another country. NEO-COLONIALISM however is very different. Neo-colonialism is based on the idea that "we're not colonizing you, you just completely depend on us for your economy".
So basically, a country can be completely in control of another country without "technically" being in control of them. This avoids the hypocriticalness that our country would have had when taking over Cuba after the Spanish American War. Because we hadn't "colonized" them, we weren't going against our own morals, since we were a colony of Britain for quite a while before we gained our independence.
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