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The double standards of every nation influence how the outcome of a person’s everyday life plays out. It is particularly highlighted in Latin America during the twentieth-century. Gabriel Marquez, the author of many inspirational fictitious novels, was known throughout the world for his book Chronicle of a Death Foretold published in 1981. The setting of the work is seen as a portrait of corrupt, and hypocritical, Caribbean town. Within the setting of the town, the gender roles of marianismo and…

Judith Cofer describes her culture in her article titled “The Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named Maria” published in The Latin Deli. This article illustrates her move as a young girl to America from her prior home on a Latina Island. As an adolescent, Judith was taught by her parent the tradition and practices of her culture and realized the…

country in the entire world—Argentina, also known as la República Argentina or Argentine Republic, is one of the wealthiest and most prosperous countries out of all its Latin American constituents. It is bordered exclusively by Chile to the west, Bolivia and Paraguay to the north, and Brazil partially to the northeast. Out of the twelve Latin American countries that make up the continent of South America, it is the second largest country by land mass and with a population of roughly 43 million…

me in Spanish thinking that I did not understand. I understood more Spanish than I could speak. I was constantly being made fun of on how I spoke Spanish, which they called broken Spanish. I thought that as a Latin community we would help each other and be more embracing towards all Latin Americans but that was not the case in this situation. They would judge me and say “ se cree gringa” she thinks she white just because I was a lighter complexion than the rest and didn’t speak fluent Spanish.…

Zika virus, a disease mainly spread through mosquitoes, is rapidly spreading throughout Latin America and many other countries, and is now threatening to spread widely throughout Northern America. With the threat of the Zika virus in America swiftly increasing, scientists, doctors, and political leaders are desperately searching for a solution to prevent a Zika epidemic. One possible solution that the U.S. FDA is now seriously considering is GMO mosquitoes, engineered by the Biotech Firm, Oxitec…

Although 1700-1914 saw both the Americas and Africa face extreme pressure from European powers, which outgunned and outnumbered them in every battle, the American Revolution ideologically paved the way for various Latin American peoples to pursue the freedoms that were starting to develop around the world. On the other hand, Africa saw most of its imperial resistance as futile in the face of these more developed and powerful nations, who completely disregarded existing social, political, and…

In Magical realism it is impossible to determine where reality ends and the extraordinary begins. According to Merriam-Webster Dictionary magical realism is “a literary genre or style associated especially with Latin America that incorporates fantastic or mythical elements into otherwise realistic fiction.’’ Magical Realism stories “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings”, “Bless Me Ultima’’, and “The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World” use magical realism elements of interweaving the magical and…

Just in the past year there were 685 targeted female murders there. Femicides are becoming more and more brutal and at the same time the reactions are staying the same, very little importance is given to these cases through out Latin America.. According to a report by the Small Arms Survey more than half of the 25 countries with the highest femicide rates are in the Americas. In Colombia 1 woman is killed every other day by gender related violence. In Argentina, the number is closer…

hundreds of different churches today and Christianity is growing rapidly in Africa and Latin America. It is still the dominant religion in Europe and North America today and surveys indicate that 83% of Americans identify themselves as Christians. Some argue that Anglicanism is also considered a major branch of Christianity as the movement has been growing greatly. Independent churches are also appearing in mostly Latin America. The practices of Christianity usually include Sunday worship…

In 1970, the United States government came up with the word to describe a person of Cuban, Mexican, Puerto Rican, South or Central American, or other Spanish culture or origin regardless of race. This is a word we are all familiar with when it comes to referring to this group of people. This word is “Hispanic.” At the present time, the United States Census Bureau defines race in five categories and does not specifically define Hispanic with a category of its own. The categories include: white…