As most historians seem to believe that modernization can happen in a blink of an eye, but as we read we now understand that modernization came at different times and had different outcomes. No country was simply able to rebuild itself and become technologically advanced in one night, countries struggled with money to produce goods, being able to bring money in, and most of making living conditions better for all.
During the early 1900’s in the Country of Brazil a city named Rio de Jenario, was being reborn. The end of formal control as well as growing globalization across not only the world but throughout the country. This is largely do the advances in visual technologies, the peaking of migration, and the new scientific ideas. The growing of Rio came up due the production of rubber and coffee grinds. The money that was brought in was able to help the city grow and was able to pay for a port that allowed for more shipments and traders to come in. This would be the complete opposite for Beijing, China. Beijing was being flooded by drug dealers from the west looking to sell opioids to the Chinese. Although the Chinese refuse they still fell into a trap which is known as the Opium War. China during this time periods is one of the biggest counties in terms of population size but numbers will soon decrease in the 1880 when the famine occurs along with the migration movement. In Japan during the mid 1880’s Japan falls into an epidemic like China which was measles. “Civilization is like an epidemic of measles” (129). I like this statement because it shows how fast it can spread and also shows the consequences it can bring.
While the spread of globalization and civilization is good is some cases it can also be bad. As we learned about this we soon understood that no matter what the countries struggled to put it all together at first but in the end were successful in bringing jobs, money, people.