Research Paper on:
Examples of Welfare Colonialism

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The contention that the history of supporting indigenous communities with no consideration of long-term economic viability has imperiled the health of cultures all over the world is one which is  supported by many authors but contested by others. Authors such as Dakuvula (1992) (in his examination of Fijian society) even contest the very validity of the term indigenous, contending  that is only a construct of colonialist politics and often comes associated with some of the more negative constructs of society such as discrimination and racism. Most peoples, after  all, are indeed indigenous to their country (Burger, 1988). Burger (1988), however, perceive indigenous peoples as survivors who have managed to perservere even in the fact of colonial politics.  Even when acculturation has resulted in an outward similarity to the mainstream culture by which they have been enveloped, Burger (1988) contends that indigenous peoples all over the world  have managed to maintain at least some semblance of their cultural uniqueness. In recognition of the confusion associated with the term  indigenous, the United Nations has drafted a complex definition of the term (Burger, 1988). In part it specifies that cultural group be descended from the original inhabitants of a  region prior to the onslaught of arrivals from outsider cultures (Burger, 1988). In most cases this definition accounts for the cultural impacts which occurred in certain regions at the  hands of colonialism. Indigenous peoples are, of course, quite varied from one another and from the mainstream populations which have engulfed them.  Burger (1988) notes they number over 200 million and comprise approximately four percent of the worlds population. In most of these cultures an underlying factor in their interaction with