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 As technology and inventions boomed in Europe and the United states so did the sales of “cheap man made consumer goods” to African and Asian countries. With the sales of these items, Europe and later America was able to colonize these countries due to the industrialization of their military and their ability to produce goods on a massive scale. By having these good African and Asian countries were seen as invaluable to Europe and America, for they no longer needed them. The tools and inventions that Africa and Asia had were not comparable to those of Europe and America, making them have little to nothing to offer them. **The material achievements of Europe and America made them superior to that of Africa and Asia. Though “skin color, fashions in or lack of clothing” were still important there was a shift in judgment. It was more valuable to Europeans and Americans to judge one by their “cranial capacity, estimates of railway milage, and the capacity for work, discipline, and marking time.” These became the “criteria” in which they judged other cultures.**  --- //[[abrooks6@umw.edu|Brooks Anna R.]] 2017/02/15 19:46//
-**This idea of race superiority as a result of technology advancements coincidentally ties in perfectly with what I have been learning in my Business Communication class this week. In BComm we have been discussing the difficulty that sometimes presents itself in communicating to someone of a different culture. Either they might interpret things differently or they have different greeting customs or so on and so forth, but if we do not think about that in when viewing how they respond to us, the responses could come off rude or ignorant.** Similarly here, the Europeans view themselves as superior because they are finding faster ways to transport things, but the essay said that in Africa they weren’t as pressed for time and would rather go around a tree than cut it down for a faster route. It shows the importance of knowing cultural differences when you want to implement your ideas onto someone else.--Kelsey Dean
+**This idea of race superiority as a result of technology advancements coincidentally ties in perfectly with what I have been learning in my Business Communication class this week. In BComm we have been discussing the difficulty that sometimes presents itself in communicating to someone of a different culture. Either they might interpret things differently or they have different greeting customs or so on and so forth, but if we do not think about that when viewing how they respond to us, the responses could come off rude or ignorant.** Similarly here, the Europeans view themselves as superior because they are finding faster ways to transport things, but the essay said that in Africa they weren’t as pressed for time and would rather go around a tree than cut it down for a faster route. It shows the importance of knowing cultural differences when you want to implement your ideas onto someone else.--Kelsey Dean
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+As Prof. Carlton's article laid out, I wanted to highlight his statement on workers' interest in shorter work days due to scientific and technological advances. Workers were willing to embrace new technologies in exchange for companies meeting their demand of less hours. This presented a few options to companies, including "less workers, more hours" or "more workers, less hours" (Smith and Clancey 288). This debate on labor persists in today's businesses as companies tend to have an ebb and flow in the amount of workers they have throughout the year, typically adding more workers around the holidays, which decreases the amount of money earned per worker.  --- //[[kmcgowan@umw.edu|McGowan Khayla J.]] 2017/02/16 15:00//