Sumblog 4 (Catergorized)

During this week of class we talked about how counties become categorized. They become categorized by western/nonwestern, developed/undeveloped, 1^st world, 2^nd world and 3^rd world countries, etc. These categories can have a negative effect of the countries. For example the way we say nonwest sounds like a negative thing in my mind and it may give the same feeling to others as well. Being not western is like say they are not apart of the western cultures.  Wallerstein would divide up counties in order to help with the division of labor. He labels this pyramid as core, semi-periphery and periphery.   This shows that we are able to separate countries by political strength they have, the consumption of goods and economics. The core can be known as the higher part and the periphery is the lower thing. By calling a country undeveloped is almost a slap in the face for them. I feel that people should be encouraging to help the less fortunate places. In a sense being categorized will always happen in the world. This reminds me of high school and how people were constantly categorized for what  they did and who they are. It can be wrong to judge something but I feel as if these places would not function the same without being categorized.

I added a picture of the core, semi-periphery, and periphery.

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This is like the one we learned about in class and it was a great way to help me understand exactly how to understand this method. Some would say that categorizing countries is a bad thing but I think that it is unrealistic to not categorize them. We can’t all make the same money and have the same things. It only makes sense to label places, people and even countries.