This week encompassed the struggles for freedom and citizenship rights. For Latin America, modernity was a dichotomy between emancipation/enlightenment versus more injustice and prejudice. Emancipation was a long process that certainly did not solve all of the region’s problems. All of a sudden there was rapid development, expansion of industries, and urbanization. There was aContinue reading “Week 7: The Export Boom as Modernity”
This week we reviewed/ revisited the idea that Latin America is, as Alexander Dawson describes it, as being Gilded with modernity. Modernity affects only parts of Latin America and ignores others. The Poet Ruben Dario This week I wanted to focus on the poem by Ruben Dario, called “To Rosevelt”. I found this poem to […]
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This week we reviewed/ revisited the idea that Latin America is, as Alexander Dawson describes it, as being Gilded with modernity. Modernity affects only parts of Latin America and ignores others. The Poet Ruben Dario This week I wanted to focus on the poem by Ruben Dario, called “To Rosevelt”. I found this poem to […]
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In the lecture video for this week, professor John talked about how modernization in Latin America tended to be superficial, and “trouble was brewing” under the surface. In the article about Diaz by Creelman, we read last week, Mexico seems to be a stable and peaceful region with no crisis in sight. Yet, reading this […]
As we have discussed previously, Latin America is an extremely diverse place. This, combined with the residual left by the casta system, leads to a separation of groups; a lack of national solidarity. This has various effects. From last week we learned these barriers resulted in the unequal distribution of modernization/progress, that the benefits ofContinue reading “Week 8: Signs of Crisis in a Gilded Age”
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This week we are looking at modernity and what that looks like in Latin America. We will begin to look at economics and the introduction of technology and how they contribute to the integration of modernity. Look at our technology today, from the accessibility and growing necessity of the internet to our dependence on smartphones […]
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This week we are looking at modernity and what that looks like in Latin America. We will begin to look at economics and the introduction of technology and how they contribute to the integration of modernity. Look at our technology today, from the accessibility and growing necessity of the internet to our dependence on smartphones […]
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Modernity. It’s more than just thinking about the next greatest invention and it’s more than the fantasied sci-fi idea. I think when you first read or hear the word “modernity” you think innovation or you think of our country as a whole being what we believe to be modern. It is of the time. Continue reading “Week 7: The Export Boom as Modernity”
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Modernity can be looked as a positive or negative thing depending on who you speak to. With more industrialization, tolerance and a new era of science/technology, a country joins the modern world with a lot to offer. It can be linked to a more liberal way of life. However when transitioning from a traditional society […]
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How shocking the polar opposite views of modernity are. It seems to be contrasting and in the end, ironic. Modernity…
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