The motives are 🙁 a) economic: that is the territories to proceed with the production of raw materials and in addition to having the subject populations to be serving the territories as markets. (b)Political: that implied to serve the interests cultural and economic interests, with the exceptions of the Liberians Europeans due to their striking agreement with the local peoples, eliminating themselves from the cultural agreement as much as possible (Morgenthau & Nations,2009). The influence of the culture is not among the things that have been witnessed in some years ago from the cultural influence of the Americans.
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