European Influences On Latin American Culture

Bolivia is a small but diverse country in both architecture and culture due to foreign

In Latin American countries, they have a very unique culture. With their holidays, music, celebrations, and art, the countries in Latin America never cease to bring joy in people’s lives. Latin American culture is vastly different than other cultures in many ways. In Latin America, the languages of Spanish and Portuguese are dominant and most people speak them. However there are people who speak other languages as well. Latin America includes nineteen countries and several territories. There are a variety of different ethnicities in Latin America including Mexicans, Europeans, and Asians. Education inside the Latin American culture still struggles. Only a little more than half of kids ages 13-17 advance into secondary school. Because of this, the crime and violence rates in Latin America are at an all time high. These countries have been rated as one of the most dangerous regions in the world because of how high the rates of crime and violence are.

What are the parallels between American foreign policy during the early 20th century in Latin America and the late 20th century in Asia?

In my personal experience, Mexican music has revolved around my life for as long as I can remember. Growing up in a bordertown has its Hispanic heritage. Whether I was at home, school, or even in public places, I would hear Spanish related music playing in the background. I believe Spanish music holds many values when it comes to different occasions. The music can manipulate the minds of its listeners using love, passion, and outstanding rhythms. After reading an article online, I can explain how three different genres of traditional Mexican music influence people’s culture.

When the Spanish and the Portuguese established the colonies in the Americas, not only did they bring their material culture of technologies, clothes, cuisines, architecture, crops, and animals but they also brought their intellectual traditions such as that of honor. The history of colonial Latin America gives many questions related to the understanding of honor. The culture of honor during this period of time was pivotal as it provided a set of values that organized society and individual lives. Legal codes, social gatherings, seating arrangements were all mixed in with cultural meanings, which helps define status within a system of honor. Honor is also seen within fiction produced from the colonial Latin American period with the production of work such as Don Juan Tenorio and Don Quixote. These dramatic works glorify the chivalric tradition of honor, romanticizing it and creating a flattering fiction that the elite of colonial Latin America found convenient to strive for. Literary critics and cultural historians have studied the structure honor code of this period closely and in this book it can also be seen that honor can be irrationally inflexible, cruel and especially oppressive toward those of lower class, “tainted” lineage and female gender during this time. In this book, The Faces of Honor: Sex, Shame, and Violence in Colonial Latin America, scholars Lyman L. Johnson and Sonya Lipsett Rivera take on the difficult but exciting task of trying to define the idea and

In Latin America, African music and dance did not rise to prominence in an unadulterated form, but rather one transformed by interactions with European styles in a process known as transculturation. Such an intricate transmutation occurs when cultures exchange aspects, including music, language, or dance, and mutually influence each other in both beneficial and adverse ways. John Charles Chasteen explores this concept in profound detail throughout National Rhythms, African Roots wherein he explains the origins of Latin American popular culture in a tale that spans centuries, continents, and race gaps. This radical transformation of culture is not removed from current events, but has become increasingly relevant with the rise of the internet and social media to serve as channels for such diverse interactions. After African and European dance and music were interwoven through transculturation, Latinos gradually embraced the hybrid rhythms as their own after being exposed to them at carnival street parades and clandestine dance clubs. Nonetheless, these interracial interactions were not completely free from racism and degradation to the African identity.

long before the Europeans arrived the first nations people had been active traders and had well established trading patterns and alliances through north America.

Music is a universal understanding of one’s culture. It allows people from all parts of the world to come together to appreciate and love one another for their differences. My mother is Filipino and my father is Mexican. Though both ethnicities are rich in history, I have chosen to specifically focus on the land of my father, Jalisco, Mexico. With lively rhythms, different vocalists, and historical dances, Jalisco’s music comes together to tell a story.

Domingos Ãlvares, African Healing, and the Intellectual History of the Atlantic World tells the story of Domingos Alvares, an African healer practitioner who was taken as a slave from West Africa and was sold to a Brazilian master twice, then later was transported to Portugal for an Inquisition conducted by the authorities of the Holy Office. This text was written by James H. Sweet, a scholar of Africa in the Atlantic World in the History Department of the University of Wisconsin. Sweet tells the story of Domingos in ten chapters using many illustrations

Cuba, unlike other Latin American countries, gained its independence from the Spanish domination near the turn of the 19th century and fell directly under American control. In 1895, Cuba was preparing itself for a third offensive against the Spanish, but in 1898 the United States declared war on Spain following the exaggeration of abuse by the Spanish Army against the Cuban people. The reason for the United States to go to war with Spain over Cuba was because the U.S. businesses had invested heavily in Cuban agriculture, mining, utilities etc. as well as the explosion of the battleship Maine. The explosion was heavily reported by U.S. newspaper as the deeds of the Spanish Army prompting Congress to go to war to avenge

Mexico historically has a long, rich and dynamic culture. It was influenced not only by the Native Americans in the Aztecs and Mayans, but also by the earliest European global super power, that being Spain. The Aztec empire thrived across most of modern day Mexico coming to prominence around 1424. The Aztecs were said to have ruled over 5 million people at the time. In 1519 Hernan Cortes led several hundred Spaniards along with other Native allies and conquered the Aztecs. This is significant in the sense that this single event is a defining moment in its history. Mexico defines itself as a “Mestizo” or mixed heritage and culture of both Spanish and Native American influence. For nearly three hundred years Spain would rule and govern

Nueva Granada, now known as Colombia, covered a vast majority of northwest South America. Until Spain colonized Nueva Granada, the individual tribes had successful government and social structures. Once colonized, the daily life of the people of New Granada was completely changed. The changes in every aspect of their lives can be shown by looking at how Colombia was before, during, and after its colonization.

From the 1500s through the 1800s, the Spanish had controlled large areas of the modern-day Southwest and West Coast of the United States. The Spanish had controlled, enslaved and killed many Native Americans, Indians and Africans and in Spain, resulting in a cultural blending and a rise to a new social structure. Between 1810 and 1826, the Creoles led the revolution across Latin America due to resentment over the Spanish government’s massive control over North and South America, especially against the minority peninsulares, or Spanish-born Spaniards. having social conflicts with political power, demanding economic control and complexities with self identity have all led to the revolt against the peninsulares and for independence.

One of the most common themes in Fr. Deck’s works is the importance of culture in regards to religion; he talks specifically Hispanic-American culture but does not shirk the importance of other cultures. For example, at the National Symposium on Adolescent Catechesis Deck espoused the importance of culture in regards to the evangelization of Hispanic Adolescents. He drew attention to the lack of any specialized attention towards Hispanic culture as a whole despite the fact that the church has constantly noted the importance of the evangelization of Hispanic youth. Deck goes on to argue that the Catholic Church is experiencing issues with evangelizing because their methods have become sterile and ineffective due them never changing. Fr. Deck

Because the Indians and Spanish lived in different areas in Latin America, the Indian culture and society did not change significantly. Or did there society change?