Lack of economic adaptation of indigenous systems

Despite the efforts of white bureaucrats, the native people in the Americas and elsewhere did not assimilate to industrial capitalism, but instead retreated into the cultural traditions which had sustained them for centuries.

1. Unprotected vulnerable economies
2. Undetermined procedures for adapting tradition-bound cultures
3. Lack of assimilation
4. Economic underdevelopment

1. Ineffectiveness of tradition-bound small business methods

1. Threatened habitats of indigenous peoples
2. Imbalance in economic relationships among countries
3. Endangered cultures

1. Tradition-bound social structures in rural areas
2. Glorification of primitive cultures
3. Disproportionate foreign investment in indigenous industries

1. Vulnerability of socio-economic systems to globalization

1. Rapidly changing cultures

1. Disparagement of indigenous cultures

1. Using alternative economic systems
2. Romanticizing indigenous cultures
3. Developing business strategies with traditional groups for biodiversity conservation

1. Uneconomic
2. Lack