PM Page 7 On the same Track? MOZAIK 2004/1 Sören A S M U S The Conquest of Latin America: Europe and the External Other It has taken a long time to realise how the respective peoples perceived the encounter between people from Europe and people from Latin America. Enrique DUSSEL describes the process of encounter between the European conquistadores and the indigenous people of the Americas from a European point of view in six forms: Invention‚ Discovery‚ Conquest‚ Colonisation‚ Spiritual
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Latin America has the worst distribution of wealth in the world. The gap between rich and poor is one of the biggest‚ and much higher than it is in the industrialized countries or the regions of the Third World. The continent has an unclear privilege of rich people with a society in extreme poverty conditions‚ while in some countries the proportion of poor has stabilized‚ the absolute number has been growing every year. Because of corruption in the political states‚ lack of social interest in the
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This paper will discuss the poverty in Latin America. Latin America has always been in poverty and although there have been some ups and downs‚ the poverty level remains great. First‚ we will discuss the region that is known as Latin America‚ the determining factors of poverty‚ the statistics and history of the poverty in Latin America and the future of the poverty in Latin America. Latin America refers to the areas of America in which the Spanish or Portuguese languages prevail. These areas include
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Theorizing Populism In recent years‚ Latin America has seen a rise of presidents with leftist ideologies labeled by many as ‘Latin America’s left turns’. However key differences in the manner these governments respond to and manage majority-minority relations and individual rights‚ as well as their economic criteria and political order has a created a division between the ‘good’ social democrats and ‘bad’ populists. Many scholars such as Francisco Panizza‚ Romina Morelli‚ and Mitchell Seligson
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 Slavery in the Americas was quite diverse. Mining operations in the tropics experienced different needs and suffered different challenges than did plantations in more temperate areas of Norther Brazil or costal city’s serving as ports for the exporting of commodities produced on the backs of the enslaved peoples from the African continent. This essay will look at these different situations and explore the factors that determined the treatment of slaves‚ the consequences of that treatment
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Colonialism and Latin America Eduardo Galeano is a passionate journalist and writer‚ a man that has put this passion into writing about the lost or often overlooked histories of Latin and South Americas. In one of his acclaimed books‚ Las venas abiertas de América Latina/Open Veins of Latin America‚ he looks at the history of exploitation in this place from early European explorers to current United States and European endeavors. In this paper using three examples from Open Veins of Latin America by Eduardo
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Although Latin America has faced many social‚ political‚ and economic issues within the last three centuries‚ inequality remains one of the most important‚ historical‚ and omnipresent aspects of the region’s culture. As Europeans took over Latin America during the time of colonization‚ they implemented many elitist social structures that have held strong and are evident today (Harris). Income inequality is the most visible and greatest disparity that the region faces; yet inequality between gender
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The economic and social gap between Latin America and North America is certainly a mixture of path-dependence causes‚ and current economic behaviors. This is mainly because‚ on one hand history legacies‚ are essential to understand the current patter of unequal or unstable growth. On the other‚ economic prosperity is also about the degree to which each region has been capable of changing over time and adapting to external factors in order to create continued growth. Mahoney‚ aims to explain the
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immigrants‚ racially mixed heritage. They were “too numerous” to fit inside the bubble so they committed themselves to a larger vision which included more people. Industrialization was the practical goal they most desired. Felt comfortable being Latin American. Self- Respect. Embracing cultural difference. Reinterpretation. The view that “everybody belonged” and that benefits should be shared brought forth the principle of Cohesion (the act of forming a united whole) Critiques of Imperialism
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2010‚ Argentina became the first Latin American county to legalize same-sex marriage. Allowing for the first time thousands of Argentinian people to be legally allowed to be with those they love. This law became passed in spite of venomous opposition from the Catholic Church. The Catholic Church opposing the LGBTQ community is not a 2000’s phenomenon‚ however. With the recent rise in acknowledgment for these once marginalizes groups‚ historians of colonial Latin America have taken an interest in these
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