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Like any other continent, Latin America is a melting pot of many cultures and people: some of them are indigenous, others primarily descended from Spanish Europeans who sought a new way of life and independence in what were once Spanish colonies, some who were born in this new and exciting land, and sadly, those who were forced to migrate to Latin America as slaves. But the fight to separate Latin American colonies from the Spaniards who resisted giving up their control did not occur all at…

Oppression based on socioeconomic status and heritage is a problem that Latin American society has faced for hundreds of years. The European colonization of modern-day Latin America has provided powerful examples of oppression and revolution, as it has been continually felt by various groups throughout recent history. As these European ancestors laid claim to this land, a series of indigenous populations suffered and endured hardships of slavery and perpetualized inferiority that left them…

newfound independence of many Latin American states, the turmoil continued even after the independence revolutions in many states. A major contributing factor to the continued commotion was the debilitating economic stagnation throughout Latin America. Although some nations including Brazil, Chile, and Argentina underwent economic advances following the independence revolutions largely due to their favorable natural resources and geographic position, most other Latin American nations failed to…

Relations between the United States and Latin America were not confined to diplomatic policies and economic transactions. Cultural exchanges also occurred. These exchanges took a variety of forms, both positive and negative. They were the inevitable result of people travelling throughout the Americas either looking for work or seeking adventure and bringing elements of their native cultures with them and taking back elements of those foreign cultures they had encountered. The social interactions…

everyone else was seen as inferior. During this time, people who resembled an Iberian where most likely accepted and possessed the ability to climb the capitalistic society. Although those who possessed Iberian ancestry accepted the ethnic hierarchy in Latin Colonial America, people who were non-Iberian criticized…

Race in colonial Latin America was different from race in the United States of America. In colonial Latin America “race” was measured in terms of appearance, rather than in terms of “ancestry”; whereas it was the opposite in the U.S.A. Peter Winn states, “Andean people have straight hair, so to avoid being ‘Indian’ with straight hair, they would go to a beauty parlor to get a perm.” In Bolivia almost everyone had some kind of Indian ancestry, but they wanted to ignore this and so they did…

One/200-300 words 1. Drawing on the book, Sacrificing Families and the film we viewed in class, "De Nadie," explain why Latin American migrants come to the United States. Latin Americans migrate for many reasons; however, there are some individuals who assume that the primary reason people migrate is to seek the "American Dream" when in reality their reasons surpass that. Latin American migrants come to the United States as a last resort in order to either provide for their families or remove…

developing world, the majority of countries in Latin America shifted from military regimes to democracies. While Latin America has been identified as the third most democratic region in the world, after Western Europe and North America, democracy in the region must overcome huge obstacles Western counterparts do not experience as harshly, such as widespread poverty, poor education, and gaping income inequality. After the third wave occurred between 1980 and 1990, Latin America has failed to…

The central theme of this book is that you can’t understand the huge Latino presence in the United States if you do not understand the US role in Latin America, the Latino presence in the country is, in fact, a product of the harvest of empire. This presence is the result of over a century of domination. Most of the immigrants came from countries that were more dominated by the United States. Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, Mexico, Salvador and Guatemala are the countries from which…

Most parts of Latin America have been struggling to implement or enforce democracy for the past century. The most notable examples are Argentina and Chile. Many political scientists have argued that this is mostly due to internal factors such as the corporatist culture and lack of proper structural reforms, but they do not include external pressures from the international sphere to curb communist influence in Latin America. In this paper, I will argue that from the coup in Chile in 1973 to the…