Latin America

the night of October 31st, Halloween. Halloween is now a day where children dress up in costumes, roam around neighborhoods, and ask strangers for candy. As of today Halloween is an over commercialized campaign, set to get people to buy into what America views as Halloween. Social and cultural expressions have changed over the years from traditional life and death celebrations to a modernized era of Halloween. By looking at the history behind Halloween through Celtic, Mexican, and Wiccan…

results and data was upheld in another multicultural, independent study done by the Gallop Word Poll, which investigated the religious motivations for conversion to Protestantism in Latin America. The Gallop World Poll conducted a survey using personal interviews with roughly 1,000 respondents from each nation in Latin America, totaling 18 nations and a sample size of 34, 401 respondents (Stark & Smith, 2010). While it was hypothesized that people seek God for answers and direction when in…

instance, the topic of race in certain countries can become binaries which progress to colorism in due time. To begin with, in the Dominican Republic, the ideas behind coloniality still permeate the nation. According to the documentary “Black in Latin America”, Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. explores how Dominicans and Haitians are divided and he presents binaries such as rich vs. poor, Spanish vs. French, and even light skin vs. dark skin. These binaries expose the discord between the…

colonial involvement shaped the region of Latin America in great ways. The demand of raw material from Latin America led the way for massive European settlement and slave trade. Ronaldo Munck notes “ eight million of Europeans migrated to Latin America between 19th century to 1930s” (Munck, 2012, p. 25). The European conquers forced the native people to work the mining fields and farming to support their colonial motherland according to Galeano, “colonial America was made to serve europe’s…

Latin America has lots of problem. It isn’t a perfect country. Nothing is perfect and there is going to be problems. Some of these difficulties and more severe than others and some aren’t nearly as bad as others. In Latin America they have really bad financial problems and they have child labor. These are really bad problems, but, believe it or not some problems are worst than this. One of them is crimes that are due to drugs. I believe that in Latin America the main problem is that people…

The environment In latin America needs to be our number one priority because illegal and some legal jobs are destroying the ecosystem and causing animals to go extinct. People are desperate for money and jobs but that is not a reason to destroy all of their natural resources. They are using natural resources at a rate higher than ever before. Ecosystems in Latin america are dying off because the things that they need to survive are being sold as profit or there homes are being turned into crop…

In Latin America, twenty years ago, the idea of an early education program was not looked into very well. Today, there has been an increase in the use of preschools around the continent. "12 countries aim at providing three-year programs, 7 countries enacted two-year programs, and Ecuador offers a one-year preschool program." (The Latin America, page 3) These statistics show that there is a growing interest in preschools. This is very similar to the United States; the idea of preschool is widely…

blacks in Latin America? Explain the roots of black heritage in Latin America. By 1518, King Charles I of Spain authorized the slave trade because of the high demand for cheap labor that sprouted from the Spanish New World. The Spanish imported slaves to Mexico and the Caribbean Islands. The Portuguese by the 1530s were already importing slaves to Brazil. Through the Transatlantic Slave Trade, roughly around 12 million Africans were sent to the Americas. In result, many countries in the…

The wars of independence in Latin America must not only be traced back to the impact of the Bourbon reforms but take into consideration the other factors and how these factors are more important for the origins of the wars of independence, such as the French, American and Haitian Revolutions and the creole discontent. The Bourbon reforms, in the 18th century, were aiming to establish administrative uniformity in the region, but also to strengthen Spain’s control of its colonies. This could be…

around the world specially, in Latin America culture where women and men have been treated differently for centuries. In the book Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel García Márquez, we see how these gender roles play a very important key element in the…