* African music | The many music cultures of Africa may be broadly classified as North African and sub-Saharan. This article discusses only traditional music of the dominant population south of the Sahara‚ as North African culture is essentially Islamic or Arabic. The diversity of this population is reflected both in the number of languages spoken--about 800 to 1‚000--and in the wide variety of music traditions cultivated. Fortunately‚ these traditions have many traits in common‚ permitting a discussion
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Latin-Americans are often portrayed negatively. As a result‚ there is a prevailing negative perception against Latin-Americans that limits the opportunities of these people‚ resulting to limited work options‚ education and low wages‚ resulting to poverty (Hartman 2015; Sabo‚ et.al 2014). This negative perception is further compounded by the overall negative stereotype surrounding drug use. Sabo‚ et.al (2014) and Otiniano Verissimo‚ Grella‚ Amaro and Gee‚ (2014) explain that history of drug use places
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There are many popular Spanish speaking countries in Latin America with Cuba being the largest island in the Caribbean. Found just off the coast of Florida‚ the communist country of Cuba has many crime issues which include a large commercial sex trade and drugs. The age of consent is 16 whereas it is 18 in the United States. Cuba is surrounded by countries used as cartel way stations. Latin American drug flows to the United States are shifting away from Mexico and toward the Caribbean. Fidel Castro
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Indigenous People of Latin America Throughout the world‚ when new lands were conquered‚ old customs would be lost. However‚ in Latin America‚ a great deal of their indigenous tribes not only survived being conquered‚ they are still around today. Different regions of Latin America are home to different peoples and many tribes are part of ancient full-fledged kingdoms. Some of these kingdoms are among the most well-known in the world. The Meso-American native peoples make Latin America famous. These
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In Latin America‚ the rise of wealth in the first world and backwash the development in the third world caused the unachievable with the “Trickle Down” of the third world (McKay‚ 2016). The reconstruction in the European countries were subsidized by the external assistant rather than their internal improvement (Richard‚ 2015) which call “Dependency Theory”. Dependency theory was designed to respond the modernization theory (Reyes 2001a). This theory focuses on the development of the third world which
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I am a victim of the educational disproportionality in the public school system. I didn’t see the extent of the damage that had been done to me until I came to college and noticed how other students were unscathed by the inequities in the public education system. However‚ it was only because I was used to being in the same ineffective system surrounded by the same students who also didn’t know the experience of getting a higher quality education‚ but not anymore. Education is a powerful thing‚ and
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empire‚ it was generally adjacent to and west of the nation’s existing boundaries. The United States wanted to stay neutral outside warfare. Military entanglement was not advantageous. However‚ the United States also threated to intervene in other Latin American affairs in the early 1890s‚ primarily as a way to counter growing British influence in the region. The United States need to turn away from
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Political systems are built in a country to manage the institutions of resource allocation‚ citizen’s rights and national security. When the government is no longer satisfactorily maintaining these institutions‚ political change is bound to occur. In Latin America‚ during the 30’s and 40’s‚ the governments of Brazil and Argentina failed and therefore political revolutions overthrew the old regimes. Getulio Vargas and Juan Peron rose to power with Populist platforms appealing to the masses. In order to
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cultures‚ Cofer being Puerto Rican and Staples being African American‚ but both have lived extremely similar lives. Both have faced the ugly head of stereotypes and racism in America. Cofer describes how she felt growing up in her essay‚ “The Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named Maria”. She explains the struggles of being stereotyped and how being a minority contributed to her treatment. Staples explains very similarly how he was profiled and persecuted because of his race and appearance in his
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In Latin American macho culture having a homosexual child is usually cause of shame for most parents. In some settings‚ men are supposed to have sex with women‚ besides their own wives‚ as a manner of proving not just their conquering abilities‚ but their sexual prowess. A friend of my husband used to behave in such a manner‚ and bragged about it. To this man‚ getting a sexually transmitted disease was not just an inconvenience‚ but a motive of pride —"it is nothing more than an occupational hazard
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