To begin, after watching these videos it is different to be a black Latin American than to be black in the US in the following ways: Brazil: In Brazil, many deny their heritage. In fact, as the film states: Four million white Europeans allowed into the country between 1884 and 1939 in order to “whiten” the culture. The term was described as interbreeding between Europeans and Africans in an attempt lighten the completion of slaves by paying European immigrants to breed with Africans. In Present day Brazil, African Latins are still not respected in wealthy areas and treated poorly despite the countries reputation as being racism free. Another shocking concept to me was a contributing concept between the feud between the Haitians and Dominicans
Brazil and Mexico are both the giants of their geographic realms (de Blij and Muller 219,254). Mexico constitutes an entire geographic region of Middle America (200). The country of Brazil is also considered a single region in South America (239). Both of these regions have very large populations in comparison to the other regions of their realms. Mexico’s current population of 102 million people has more than doubled in size since 1970 (219). Brazil’s estimated population is currently near 167 million people (254). The populations of both regions are becoming increasingly more urban in character. At least seventy-four percent of Mexico’s population resides in cities or towns (220). Similarly in Brazil, eighty percent of the population
Imperialism and then colonialism opened the floodgates that are troubled race relations, racism, and misguided societal values. Race has played a vital role in how Americans view each other, and themselves, and the experiences that they have. We constantly hear about institutionalized racism, the school-to-prison pipeline and police brutality on the news. The topic of race has such an enormous presence in our society that it simply cannot be ignored. But what is rarely talked about is how these conditions are incredibly similar to those that people in Latin America have to endure as well. Racism does not end at the borders of the United States, and in fact, they only seem to get worse in countries that are less developed.
ver time, human development and distribution can be drastically changed and differed according to human and environmental factors. This has very much been the case in Brazil. Over the course of many years major cities like Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro have seen a significant increase in population density, but the creation of Brasilia and government funding of northern cities such as Manaus has also caused an evident shift in population distribution. This change has been created as a result of increase in government funding in projects such as urbanization of northern cities, job opportunities, harsh physical features and both internal and external migration.
Did you know that Brazil is the largest country in South America? It is also the 5th largest country in the world. Brazil is located in the north-eastern part of South America. Every country in South America surrounds Brazil except for Ecuador and Chile. The first people that lived in what is now Brazil were called the “nativos brasileiros," which in English means native Brazilians. Brazil is very large which makes it a great,"home to many rainforests, rivers, and waterfalls, including the Amazon Rainforest, the Amazon River Basin, and the Iguazu Falls. The Amazon River is the second largest river in the world. Brazil also has a very warm climate which makes it a great place to grow crops. Pedro Cabral from Portugal, colonized Brazil on
Throughout the video we looked at the fact that the presence of blacks in Mexico and Peru seem to be near nonexistent even though there was a large number of African slaves taken to these two countries. It was even said that the number of African slaves taken into Mexico and Peru outnumber the slaves that were in the United States. One aspect of this phenomenon was that in Mexico, the African culture was mixed with the whites and Spanish culture early on, resulting in the “dilution” of African presence in Mexico. After the abolition of slavery in 1830 the Catholic Church even allowed interracial marriage between the blacks, whites, and Spanish. In one part of the video we were shown a wall that the commentator even called “The Sixteen Shades of Blacks” because of the different colors of all the people in the painting to emphasize the intermingling of races. So in current day Mexico there is very few 100 percent African residents, most are mulatto, moreno, or mestizo, which are all mixed race. Also the Mexican government decided that in the seventeenth century that racial categories should be eliminated, while this seemed to be a step in the right direction for equality, it ended up covering up the rich African history in Mexico and now a vast majority of citizens of Mexico do not understand the history they do have.
Northeast Brazil is one of the poorest areas in a country where there is an incredibly great divide between the wealthy and the poor. Similar to the situation in the United States, many impoverished families are caught in a cycle where being born into poverty means your resources are less accessible than that of someone born into money. As a result, the young people remain impoverished throughout their lives and have children that face the same struggle continuing the cycle.. Education is one of the critical resources that may be able to assist in removing someone from an impoverished situation. Unfortunately, in places with a large population of poor, the school systems tend to be in poor condition or non-existent.
Case Name: Alberto R. Gonzales, Attorney General Vs O Centro Espirita Beneficante Unidao Do Vegetal (U.S 2006)
Brazil is an amazing and exiting country with all that you can do, including tours of the Amazon or going to the beach or maybe even going to the huge statue of Christ the Redeemer. So with the many things you can do, this is Brazil.
The United States involvement with Latin American was critic for the economic development of both parties. Throughout history the United States invested mostly economically with these third world countries. For instance In the Dominican Republic, Cuba, and Haiti, officials had to obtain U.S consent before borrowing foreign capital. Another example is the relations of the United States with Cuba, the US investments helped locked the country into a risky one-crop economy subject to fluctuating world sugar prices.
What are some of the Policies that Brazil or China has followed in Recent Years to Reduce Inequality? Has it been Successful?
Brazil has always been a volatile economy, and quite a challenge for the Central Bank to manage. In the 90s, Brazil’s currency, heavily discredited due to a high inflation (which almost hit an annual rate of 7,000% in 1990) was anchored to the US dollar, to import credibility, aiming at stabilizing prices. This also indexed prices to the US dollar, causing inflation to rise whenever the US dollar rose. On top of that, Brazil has always had a savings glut which has traditionally been financed by foreign investors. As such, until 2003, whenever there was a global confidence crisis, investors would withdraw funds from Brazil, and the Central Bank would raise interest rates to convince investors to keep their money in Brazil. This dynamic created a vicious cycle, as higher interest rates would cause investments to be more expensive when risk aversion increased, contributing to the volatility of long-term investments in the Brazilian economy.
words, if I learn Bengali my boyfriend and his family will always speak to me in it, while leaving out my family and friends.
Both works also fictionally challenge the character of the United States. A character filled with hubris; there are many occurrences of the public misconstruing the ideals of the country. Such as the beginning of Vonnegut’s piece when the narrator reads aloud that information, regarding the bombing of Dresden is confidential. This upsets the wife of one of Pilgrim’s war acquaintances who professes her disapproval with war stating, ‘You’ll pretend you were men instead of babies, and you will be played in the movies by Frank Sinatra and John Wayne or some of those other glamorous, war-loving, dirty old men.’ Hiding terrible acts from the public or modifying the information is an issue with American culture. Maja Zehfuss weighs in on the secrecy by saying, ‘Nothing
“Over centuries now, the white racial frame has kept this strong obsessive focus on black Americans as the dominant issue, problem, or reference point in an array of US institutional areas. Huge amounts of white energy has been expended on preserving systemic racism, including on the written and oral rationalizations of the societal reality” (Feagin 99). The dichotomy between white and black has been happening for centuries, you see it in history books, the mainstream media, and even within mainstream feminism. Many academics who study Latinx’s discuss the idea of Latinx’s “living between cultures,” which is a concept Gloria Anzuldua has discussed in her academic writing. Latinx live in a line of invisibility, as Abraham from the movie
In recent years, foreign banks accelerate their processes of globalisation, especially the entry in emerging market (J Cardenas, JP Graf & P O’Dogherty 2005), so does the Australian banks.