Latin American culture

important for military officers and soldiers to understand the culture of common destinations in which the United States military occupies. It helps the military to relate to the people and gains their trust and cooperation. A country that the United States has many ties to, both monetarily and militarily is France. This essay will focus on the culture of France and its relations with the United States. The describing of common French culture starts with the characteristics of this specific…

The Haitian American culture has been a long-surviving and well-adapting culture. Starting with the indigenous people that occupied the island, before Christopher Columbus’ arrival in 1492. Columbus, being a conqueror for Spain, claimed the island of Haiti for King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella and named it Hispaniola meaning “little Spain”. From thenceforth the indigenous people of the island were killed off during gold conquests and the ruling of the Spanish by forced labor and diseases. With…

A Comparative Study of the Irish Potato Famine Migration and the Modern Hispanic Migration There is no doubt that the Irish Potato Famine of the 1800’s and the recent Hispanic Migration movement are the two most influential mass migrations to the United States. People in the millions left their homes voluntarily to cross international borders in search of economic and social opportunity in an industrialized America, where the minorities were gradually becoming represented in politics and…

but was aided by the United States in 1898. Although intimidated by the Americans, the Puerto Rican natives remained hopeful that the United States would help bring about great change in the colony. Hoping that the Americans could help mold the colony in the ways of democracy and freedom, the natives welcomed the United States, apprehensive at first but welcomed them nonetheless. It seems that from the very beginning the Americans had no faith in the fact that Puerto Rico could…

As Noble Prize winner, Jose Saramago once said, “Things will be very bad for Latin America. You only have to consider the ambitions and the doctrines of the empire, which regards this region as its backyard”. While powerful nations like the United States were increasing their national income by taking advantage of the recourses their neighboring countries had to offer, it was destroying the economic balance within those countries by making the rich more successful and the poor suffer more.…

“Well my mother did it for my father!” I could hear the tension in his usually seductive voice. Tears began to gather in my eyes as I looked out the window. I had wanted to scream, or cry, or not talk at all. However, in reality I did not know what I had wanted. I knew what he wanted. He made that extremely clear. He was my first real boyfriend and I would have done almost anything to please him, but this was too far. Granted I am stubborn in my ways, but for good reason! I should not have to do…

Interpreting Africans Contributions through Primary Sources The transatlantic slave trade was a period in history in which many Africans slaves contributed to the economical boost and social changes of the Americas. James Sweet and Judith Carney both showed the impacts that Africans had in the Americas with the help of primary sources such as books, researches, visuals, and documentaries in order to produce an interpretation of the contributions that Africans brought by innovating the…

country and tried to form it to his own ideals (López, 2014). When we look at the way Cuba was affected by the USSR and the US there is a major difference. Culturally you can see that the USSR has little impact in comparison to the US. It is the US culture that attracts Cubans and has influenced them greatly (Chomsky, Carr, & Smorkaloff, 333). Culturally the US impacted Cuba in a greater way than it did to Haiti. Imperialism was a large role that affected the trajectory of Haiti unlike Cuba…

John Henry Newman was one of the most important Roman Catholic theologians in the 19th century, otherwise known as the Victorian Era (Shiefen). He is known greatly for his involvement in the Oxford movement, a movement in which many men argued for the want of older Christian traditions to return so that the Church of England could be brought back to its Catholic roots. Before Newman was a part of the Oxford movement, he was a very popular priest at Oxford, and he later became a cardinal.…

Throughout American history, millions of people around the world have abandoned their homeland for a change, to start a new life in a foreign country. Nonetheless, when it comes to Latinos, their migration has been a direct result of the United States’ domination and involvement with Latin American countries. The massive Latino migrant flows had a direct relationship to the growth of the U.S. Empire, whether it was through a political need of establishing relationships with its neighbors or an…