This week’s video/reading struck me as being particularly interesting due to the enduring legacy of the quest for ‘order’. Even today, Donald Trump, like Ronald Reagan before him, and Eisenhower before him, uses rhetoric about the US military as if it’s in dire disrepair and needs to be rebuilt, needs more money. As absurd as […]
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What is modernity? From our standpoint in the internet age, the technological ‘miracles’ of the telegraph and the ‘horseless carriage’ can seem ridiculous at best. However, what began to emerge in the later part of the nineteenth and continuing into the twentieth century was a globalized utopia that became named modernity. Modernity became a cultural ideal, characterized in political (liberal democracy), economic (industrialization, global trade), social (family units, institutionalized education) qualities, as well as other hallmarks of a ‘modern’ society. An underlying question remains: who manufactured this cultural ideal that…read more
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Modernity is the vital part of discussion in this weeks material. Modernity in its entirety if quite interesting to me and I feel the topic as whole doesn’t get discussed very often. I’ts intriguing to hear from Alexander Dawson that majority of Mexico, not just Mexico City, under Diaz, was quite modern for the time. In my opinion the American education system can be very much bias in that America is projected as this all mighty country who has always and will always be more advanced that all other countries….read more
Modernity is the vital part of discussion in this weeks material. Modernity in its entirety if quite interesting to me and I feel the topic as whole doesn’t get discussed very often. I’ts intriguing to hear from Alexander Dawson that majority of Mexico, not just Mexico City, under Diaz, was quite modern for the time. In my opinion the American education system can be very much bias in that America is projected as this all mighty country who has always and will always be more advanced that all other countries….read more
This weeks content focused on the idea of modernity Latin American. Modernity in Latin America and a difficult concept that continues to be debated today. As such a broad idea, it seems to tie into many subjects that we have covered so far in this course. It can be thought of in the context of […]
Posted in Blogs, Week 7 | Tagged with democracy, dictator, Mexico, modernization, Porfirio Díaz, Railroads, revolution
This weeks content focused on the idea of modernity Latin American. Modernity in Latin America and a difficult concept that continues to be debated today. As such a broad idea, it seems to tie into many subjects that we have covered so far in this course. It can be thought of in the context of […]
Posted in Blogs, Week 7 | Tagged with democracy, dictator, Mexico, modernization, Porfirio Díaz, Railroads, revolution
One thing that really struck me about this week’s topic (particularly in the videos) was how subjective the concept of modernity really is. The word modernity is often attached to a positive connotation of progress, of improvement – and while that is certainly the case in some aspects of modernity within Latin America, it isn’t […]
As Latin America began to catch up to many other nations in terms of modernity when they joined the network of global trade, a period of advancement and economic growth began. I found the amount of concrete data and details in this week’s topics entertaining to read and felt it documented the course of events … Continue reading Week 7: The export boom as modernity →
The first thing I noticed while watching the Dawson video, was the amount of occasions he used the word ‘ethos.’ I like this word. Ethos is a Greek term that defines the characteristics of a group, and in this case is being used to characterize Mexico modernity. Before watching this video, I struggled with the …
The first thing I noticed while watching the Dawson video, was the amount of occasions he used the word ‘ethos.’ I like this word. Ethos is a Greek term that defines the characteristics of a group, and in this case is being used to characterize Mexico modernity. Before watching this video, I struggled with the …
