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The movie “Mirror of the hearts” exposed the way racism is woven into the back bone of so many cultures in the Americas. The film showed three different countries where racism plays a big role on people's daily lives. The first country they exposed was Bolivia, this is a nation that was colonized by Spain on the 16th century. The native population was treated horribly, they were forced to work as Pongos which was a way of slavery. They were abused on unaccountable number of ways which deeply affected their society even to this day. Natives were treated like they were inferior to them. Which was an ideology that got stuck into the DNA of their culture. Now days natives are still treated like they are inferior and are looked down upon by the …show more content…

Haiti was the richest and biggest colony in America, they were also the first colony to free themselves from the power of Spain. Therefore, more African decent live here in contrast to Dominican Republic where the majority of population are Mulatos. A mulato is a person who has Spaniard blood. Due to the fact that this two countries have racism deeply embedded in their social structure, Dominican Republicans believe they are better than Haitians because they believe they are not black they are mulatos. “Mejorar la raza” this is a saying dominican republicans have, which means improving the race. This means people should marry light skin people to improve their race and not marry dark skin individual because according to them darker people are not something to aspire to. Dominican Republican celebrate being Spaniard, however Haitian celebrate being African and their culture. Hatian are proud of being black yet they still confront racism from people who does not accept this. Racism is so permanent sometimes people would marry their own family in order to keep their race clean. Extreme actions like that are common in the Caribian due to the need of feeling like they are not black because according to them thats the worse thing you could

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