I don’t know if it’s my education up until now, my upbringing, or Mexican representation in the media, but I somehow always thought of Mexico as a big old desert with lots of cacti and sand and ponchos. I believe this is in part due to the media’s repr…
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I don’t know if it’s my education up until now, my upbringing, or Mexican representation in the media, but I somehow always thought of Mexico as a big old desert with lots of cacti and sand and ponchos. I believe this is in part due to the media’s repr…
Posted in Blogs | Tagged with mexican representation, Mexico, modernity, technology
I don’t know if it’s my education up until now, my upbringing, or Mexican representation in the media, but I somehow always thought of Mexico as a big old desert with lots of cacti and sand and ponchos. I believe this is in part due to the media’s repr…
Posted in Blogs | Tagged with mexican representation, Mexico, modernity, technology
I don’t know if it’s my education up until now, my upbringing, or Mexican representation in the media, but I somehow always thought of Mexico as a big old desert with lots of cacti and sand and ponchos. I believe this is in part due to the media’s repr…
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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
I don’t know if it’s my education up until now, my upbringing, or Mexican representation in the media, but I somehow always thought of Mexico as a big old desert with lots of cacti and sand and ponchos. I believe this is in part due to the media’s repr…
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What was most impressive to me this week was the power that was given to the one article by the journalist, James Creelman, after his interview with Porfirio Diaz. Written in 1908, just two years before the Mexican Revolution, Creelman … Continue reading →
Posted in Blogs, Week 7 | Tagged with Creelman, democracy, Diaz, Mexico, modernity, revolution
I really enjoyed this weeks video. I thought it presented topics that I had not payed much mind to previously, and broke them down well. The concept of modernity was not something I had ever really tried to define myself, and I found it particularly interesting to consider the varying degrees of modernity a country […]
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In Dawson’s reading this week, we read about how stability is subjective. That, stability & order for one group, may, in fact, be instability for another. Or, stability at one level, may be instability at another level (ie. national centres … Continue reading →
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For this week’s theme, we discussed the idea of modernization, specifically in 18th century Mexico. Dawson lists the main features…
Posted in Blogs, Week 7 | Tagged with emancipation, innovation, Mexico, modernization, racism
