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    What if the Latin American Revolution never happened. The revolution plays a big part of the Latin America we know today so it is very important but what if they never gained their independence would it be different. Would the social structure still be there? Would slavery still be abolished? Would Latin American still be independent from Spain? The Latin American Revolution was a revolution that helped gain independence for the people in Latin America. Many people helped in the process of gaining

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    How has gender inequality affected women in Latin American countries? Gender inequality has affected the women of Latin America in a multitude of ways, but it can be argued that the division of gender equality is extremely prominent when analyzing reproductive rights and health care access. Compared to countries such as Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States, Latin America is far behind in terms of civil rights and reproductive rights. The lack of rights is not in question; women’s barrier

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    Certainly, discrimination is not only detestable, yet it is as well potentially dangerous. Xenophobia as a form of discrimination has been widely experienced by Latin Americans, and there are two main factors generating this matter: migration patterns and globalization. Firstly, what is xenophobia? This term is usually understood as hatred of strangers, but it also connotes vilification, exclusion, and hostility to foreigners. Although xenophobia and racism frequently overlap, they are quite different

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    Morelos and Bolivar and Latin American Independence Spain was a global superpower in matters of wealth and their successes stemming from the arts and academia to travel and territorial conquests. Of these accomplishments, their most prized achievement was acquiring a heavy portion of Latin America where their influence originated from the northern borders of Mexico deep into South America. They abused the resources they found, cheated the natives all the while demolishing their culture and population

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    The influence of Latin culture is prominent in the American world today. Everything from the Latin language to the Roman law is visible in the culture that shapes the way we live our lives in the United States. You can see it by watching the Super Bowl game or even fulfilling your citizen duty of serving on a jury. The Latin language is prominent in the culture of the United States today. It is the root of many of the words spoken and used in your daily lives, especially in certain career fields

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    Hispanic are designated as tied to Spain or the Spanish language, but may be of any race, ethnicity, or culture; furthermore, this term is often incorrectly used interchangeably with more specific terms like Latinx that denote origins in the region of Latin America. Many people of mixed native and European blood have no connection to their ancestry to the former. Before the indigenous people of the Americas were stripped of their language and culture, they were unique civilizations and empires like the

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    that more than half of Latinos, 57%, makes them the largest ethnic group to be associated with being type O. If there is a disease associated with African Americans and a blood type frequency that correlates with Latinos, there could be a disease or multiple diseases associated with Latinos. In fact, a statistics and fact sheet from the American Heart

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    (450)Questions on the Latin American Cold War (90)Question 1: The United States began to focus on Latin American nations as a form of Cold War strategy as part of the foreign policy of the Domino Effect. President Eisenhower defined the Domino Effect as a symbolic way to define the expansion of Soviet /Communist influence over Latin American nations, which would threaten capitalistic American hegemony as a geopolitical threat to North America. President Kennedy and President Johnson also followed

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    2013 Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent Book Review Latin American Veins are Still Open and Wounded Open Veins of Latin America is the book to remember. Uruguayan author Eduardo Galeano is responsible for the creation of this relevant and controversial masterpiece, which follows the history of Latin America and the Caribbean through centuries of struggle against poverty and those imperial powers who abused of Latin American resources and created

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    indigenous populations. Modern Latin America has conflict built into its system because that is what it has mostly seen for the past five hundred years. In Born in Blood and Fire: A Concise History of Latin America, John Charles Chasteen supports the argument that Latin America's problems developed due to its violent origins and history of conquest. From the conquest, through colonialism and revolutions, to modern day, violence has always been a main player in the advancement of Latin America. Chasteen has

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