Globalization A Powerful Weapon of the United States

Introduction On the 17th of December 2010 a young street vendor from Tunisia, frustrated, set himself on fire, and died a few weeks later as an infliction of this self-immolation. Mohamed Bouazizi became a symbol of freedom, and his later death was dubbed as part of a group of heroic martyrs of a new Middle Eastern revolution.1 These young men and women, whose pictures and names became national icons, were from all over the Arab world. They were all after the same thing; an end to the suppressive evil that they have witnessed throughout most of their lives and to many their entire lives. A few weeks later, inspired and encouraged by the events in Tunisia and the successful ousting of the Tunisian president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali,†¦show more content†¦Slowly Europe was open to American cooperate and cultural sway, this later lead the US to divert its attention to the post-colonial overseas territories of the war exhausted Europe. 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