Our World

Globalization Spreads to Small Colonizations

Currently my parents are spending 14 days in Bonaire, a small island off the coast of Venezuela. I have been communicating with them through email and they have noticed an immensely similar culture to ours, even though the island is owned by the Netherlands, not to mention 90% of the tourists that visit our from the Netherlands as well. My parents have been there the past two years for diving, and over the last couple years they've noticed that all the meals in the hotel restaraunt are centered more around meet as a main course, specifically beef. We talked about this in class as one of the main contributors to deforestation in tropical rain forests because people need more room for cattle ranching. Below is a link with a map and general information on Bonaire.


http://www.geographia.com/bonaire/

posted by Anonymous @ 2/12/2006 05:01:00 PM