History of the Americas HL Required Summer Reading Study Guide Born in Blood and Fire: A Concise History of Latin America By John Charles Chasteen Foreign Affairs November/December 2000 states: Born in Blood and Fire is a briskly written yet sophisticated introduction to Latin America that will be greatly welcomed by non-specialists and experts alike. Chasteen paints on a very broad canvas‚ but he succeeds in capturing with enviable conciseness the major ingredients of Latin America’s uniqueness
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main issues in opening the Euro Disneyland and compare the French cultural with American cultural by using Hofstede’s cultural Dimensions and Trompenaars ‘s cultural dimensions. This essay will then end by gives out some solutions and recommendations for how to overcome those issues. Issues: There are several issues showed in this case. Firstly‚ lack of understanding and appreciation of cultural differences between U.S. and French. For example‚ different cultures have different definition of personal
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After WWII all of Latin America had gained its independence form their colonizers and were steadily trying to build their countries up socially and economically in the world. Many had advanced in addressing the social disparities and discriminations towards their citizens at some level however‚ the change was minimal with the countries still favoring the private/elite sector. The latter had a lot to do with the external powers that were coming into Latin America at this time. With the US’s rise in
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Western European culture (France) Over the past 500 years‚ France has been a major power with strong cultural‚ economic‚ military and political influence in Europe and in the world. During the 19th and early 20th centuries‚ France built the second largest empire of the time‚ including large portions of North‚ West and Central Africa‚ Southeast Asia. After the storming of the Bastille on 14 July 1789‚ the absolute monarchy was abolished and France became a constitutional monarchy. Through the
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different powers in Latin America. The Authors Bakewell and Escosura both wrote about the shifts in power from the Europeans to the independence of Latin America. Everything starting with the Bolivar movement‚ when Simon Bolivar wanted to free his country of the Spanish control in Venezuela. These movements showed that the Latin American people had enough of the European control in their land. They wanted to have their own freedom and power over their countries‚ making them cause revolutions in order to
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Coloniality is the concept of power that is associated with the European control in Latin America. This concept is what formed the system of hierarchy that is seen in Latin America with the formation of the colonies by the Europeans. Coloniality has formed a legacy of colonialism in Latin America where social discrimination of the native people was prevalent‚ this caused different social‚ racial and political hierarchal layers to appear. The native people were seen as primitive and placed at the
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Colonization of Latin America and North America When Christopher Columbus led a Spanish expedition in 1492 to India‚ he came across a land that would change the world forever. This region was called the Americas‚ a land the Spanish‚ Portuguese‚ French and English saw as their own to change and rule. However‚ the two regions‚ Latin America and North America saw two vastly different yet similar colonization processes from the Europeans in their social‚ political and economic systems
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China‚ she had no freedom‚ but was strongly tied to her Chinese identity‚ while in America‚ she traded her culture for her freedom. However‚ they are similar in how they were still tied to their origins as a Chinese woman. A difference between the life experiences of the sisters is that the sister in America had more freedom. The Chinese culture had great limitations on women’s freedom. The sister that left for America did not need to be confined to those restrictions on women‚ she was free from it
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A. Key Events and Issues: " Latin American revolutions - Throughout the 19th century British‚ Spanish‚ French‚ and Portuguese colonies were fighting for their independence. As Secretary of State and later as President‚ John Quincy Adams dealt with how the United States would respond to these revolutions without angering European powers. The United States chose to stay out of the affairs of these Latin American countries for that very reason. " First Seminole War - After the War of 1812‚ General
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In 1950‚ the populations of the United States and of Latin America were the same‚ at 150 million citizens. Yet forty-five years later‚ Latin America had tripled in population size‚ reaching 450 million eleven years before the United States reached 300 million. This exceptional growth rate was achieved because as Latin America’s infant mortality rate dropped and life expectancy increased‚ their birth rate stayed at the same high rate. This combination repopulated the region at a significant pace and
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