Anglais Espace et Echange

I decided to introduce the notion of Spaces and exchanges. I think it’s important to explain what is the meaning of Spaces and exchanges. Exchange something means giving something and receiving another in return. It can be an exchange of ideas, informations, students, goods. An exchange takes place in different spaces. During the last century, Globalisation helped us improve our exchanges. Globalisation is the free traffic of goods and people. I will use three documents to answer the question: How globalization has changed how we exchange information. First, I will see how it helped us. Then I will see what are the limits.

The evolution of means of transport and new technologies allows us to exchange with distant countries. The document Life on the Reserve shows us an exchange of information. The exchanges took place in the Gull Bay reserve. The reserve is inhabited by three hundred on reserve members. Graham Shonfield helped the community with the administration, in return he discovered a very welcoming and caring community. He was very close to the children, he showed them famous sports and in return they showed him their favourite sports. Graham discovered a beautiful place, but he also discovered a lot of things about its inhabitants. In return for everything he has learned, Graham decided to do a documentary to testify how is the life on the reserve. In the document The top of the world, the narrator is grateful to his Inuit guide and promise he will return with supplies and expensive luxuries. People in the village of Eagle Plains and at the petrol station were concerned about the main characters well-being. Making exchanges is something important and rewarding. They help us in many ways, for example, exchanging with communities like Eagle Plains and Gull bay permitted us to understand their issues and how to help them.

For an exchange to be good, there are limits that should never be crossed. These limits have been crossed with Experimental Eskimos. In the nineteen sixties, nine Inuit children were remove from their homes and sent to live with English speaking families. They were part of a government sponsored cultural assimilation experiment. In the document Experimental Eskimos, one of them witness what happened. Only seven children are still alive, three were part of the initial instance and four children were part of another instance. They are all affected by Mumues syndrome which stands for More Useless More useful extremes syndrome. When they went home, they had new skills that none of their friends knew. But nobody taught them how to hunt or anything that was linked to life and culture of the Inuit. This experiment is a symbol of the paternalistic attitude of developed countries towards the Inuit community. We forced these people to live like us and to think like us. An exchange must be done with respect and must be equivalent.

To conclude, we can say that Globalisation allows us to exchange new things with people all over the world. It permits us to have a better understanding of our world. But sometimes the differences between two cultures can be an obstacle. An obstacle that need to be overcome. To avoid repeating the errors of the past, future exchanges will have to be done respecting little communities.

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