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Who does modernity serve? – week 7

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

Posted in Blogs, Week 7 | Tagged with Creelman, cultural positivism, Culture, Diaz, diversity, globalization, historical positivism, ideal, Mexico, modern, modernity, paradigm, positivism, universalism

LAST100 2017-10-16 23:59:00

I’m lowkey pretty sad that we didn’t get a video lecture this week, but we’ll manage.This week was pretty interesting, as the reading and video delved into aspects of what represents and goes into a progressing-into-Modernity Latin America’s relationsh…

Posted in Blogs | Tagged with economy, Mexico, modernity, progress

LAST100 2017-10-16 23:59:00

I’m lowkey pretty sad that we didn’t get a video lecture this week, but we’ll manage.This week was pretty interesting, as the reading and video delved into aspects of what represents and goes into a progressing-into-Modernity Latin America’s relationsh…

Posted in Blogs | Tagged with economy, Mexico, modernity, progress

LAST100 2017-10-16 23:59:00

I’m lowkey pretty sad that we didn’t get a video lecture this week, but we’ll manage.This week was pretty interesting, as the reading and video delved into aspects of what represents and goes into a progressing-into-Modernity Latin America’s relationsh…

Posted in Blogs | Tagged with economy, Mexico, modernity, progress

Week 7

Before I did this week’s reading, I didn’t think that modernity had different degrees and components to it. But I could think of a few examples where clever and innovative dictators had economic advantages but didn’t necessarily promote social advantages like liberty and freedom. So the fact that countries ruled by dictators could have economic growth … Continue reading Week 7

Posted in Blogs | Tagged with Diaz, economy, export boom, latin america, Mexico, modernity

Week 7: The Export Boom as Modernity

Upon watching this video, I had little to no thoughts about the word “Modernity.” Furthermore, the idea of modernity would have never been associated with the countries of Latin America, but after watching the video I have been refreshed with an abundance of new thoughts. Coming from St.Georges School, five minutes away from the ”modernized” […]

Posted in Blogs | Tagged with 19th century, Change, export, modernity

Week 7

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

Posted in Blogs, Week 7 | Tagged with modernity

Week 7

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

Posted in Blogs, Week 7 | Tagged with modernity

LAST100 2017-10-16 22:59:00

I’m lowkey pretty sad that we didn’t get a video lecture this week, but we’ll manage.This week was pretty interesting, as the reading and video delved into aspects of what represents and goes into a progressing-into-Modernity Latin America’s relationsh…

Posted in Blogs | Tagged with economy, Mexico, modernity, progress

Modernity and Modernization in Mexico

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

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