Shelbie W

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[Shelbie W @ShelbieW1]

@RaquelO62426287 Reading about Diego Rivera's murals and Frida Khalo was another one of my favorite parts of this unit!

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@RaquelO62426287 Yes there were still (and still are) a lot of Neo-Colonial ties that existed which held large groups of people down. I think it's important that we continue to try and decolonize the US and Latin America. Eurocentric ideas are not top tier inherently #H1180

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@RaquelO62426287 It's so crazy too that some didn't know the exact history and that it was skewed to some. The fact that a border wall was suggested during that time just proves to me that history does repeat itself. Some would rather have power instead of unity #H1180

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@RaquelO62426287 I made a tweet similar to this! Some of their nationalism was about race but it was about celebrating the mixing of races and cultures. Scientific racism was on it's way out (but not for all) and I'm so glad for that #H1180

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@RaquelO62426287 Seeing this part of the journey was so awesome. This is one of the most exciting units imo so far! I love seeing the new political ideas emerge and seeing people who had been at the bottom for so long finally have a voice #H1180

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...That Evita Perón intimidated the military and I can't help but think if the roles were reversed she would have definitely become president if not for her gender. #H1180

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In the case with Evita Perón I find the fact that she was able to use charity in way in which ultimately benefited her, especially manipulative. The patriarchal (paternalistic) ideology is still widely tradition so it's very interesting to see ... #H1180

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I noticed parallels with populism that I noticed with the lib. movement in Lat. America. Politicians, like Juan Perón, told the working class what they wanted to hear all the while becoming more of a dictator. They were blatant lies #H1180

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...Seen before. We owe these communities everything and for centuries they received nothing but the loss of their lands, their freedom, their humanity, and were forced to slave labor under broken promises from political elites. #H1180

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I have really come to the realization on how integral the indigenous and African population of Latin America really is. It is the glue that holds this region's culture, religion, food, dance, tradition, and embodies the revolution in a way I hadn't...#H1180

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Industrialization before the 1930s was there but it wasn't until the Great Depression that some Latin American countries started to see huge booms in industrialization. This was of nationalist pride and another way to take back power #H1180

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Something very interesting to me is that the word "nationalist" has a different meaning in the context of modern US ideologies but nationalism (in Lat Am.) was a belief system and lifestyle that brought back traditions and pushed away Eurocentric ideas #H1180

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Because so many black, brown, and people of mixed races had been building everything up to progress the nation and never saw the fruits of their labor it was finally time that they took away the power from the colonizers who had taken so much away #H1180

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Vasconcelos believed in a "Cosmic Race" where eventually there would be one universal race that wasn't based on color or origin and nobody would be placed in social hierarchies based on race. He believed in tradition and wanted to implement that in #H1180

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"Liberal" way was not enough anymore. They got rid of positivism and focused on making the government be ruled by people who knew and loved the country. That's what was important. A social effort was made by artists, teachers, poets, writers, musicians #H1180

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Taking back what they could and stopped using Europe as a focal point. They wanted to take back political, industrial, economic, and cultural power. With the Mexican Rev. (1910-20) new ideas started to form. People were becoming educated and the old... #H1180

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...they took away their culture. European's regarded their way as the most civilized way of life. Latin American's were able to use Nationalism as a way to intergrate their own ways and traditions back into life. It was about being LatAm. #H1180 They were..

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With the rise of Nationalism Latin American's used this as a chance to finally break away from the neocolonialism that was very present. Foreigner's had come into their land and evaded their lives in every single way. They took away their power #H1180

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It definitely took centuries of nation building for people to feel united and to feel as though the marginalized were ever going to get the freedoms that they were promised #H1180 Caudillos kept the patriarchy after independence strong.

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Listening to the NPR podcast on the views of race in Brazil was very interesting. A lot of ppl there don't see race as an issue, but not everyone. The way in which people view race is different than American views. People define themselves differently #H1180