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Of course it is. How do these foreign companies own such large amounts of land in these countries? (Hint: US-sponsored coups). Why are these countries producing large amounts of a single crop via monoculture practices instead of solving for the nutritional needs of their own population?
If you live anywhere where a banana cannot grow and get them cheaply, you're benefitting from imperialism regardless of where the banana you actually eat is grown because it's the cheap bananas from those banana republics that determined the market value.
Mix in a bit of slavery, I too think it's a form of imperialism
What's cutthroat capitalism then?
Can you name some examples of banana-growing exporters that weren't undermined by the US to the point of banana republic
What a wonderful "technically correct" answer.