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This paper examines globalization and its influence upon Latin American culture. Specifically, the paper first defines "globalization" and Latin American culture. From there, the essay considers at the "pros" and "cons" of globalization relative to Latin American culture. It further questions whether globalization has overwhelmed the traditional cultures of these lands or if western values informing and animating globalization been able to find some sort of uneasy accommodation with the values and world-views that were there before. The paper concludes by addressing whether globalization has sparked progressive changes in Latin American.

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"The following paper will look at globalization and its influence upon Latin American culture. Specifically, the essay will begin first by defining what "globalization" means and what we mean when we talk of Latin American culture. From there, the essay will look at the "pros" and "cons" of globalization relative to Latin American culture. To be more particular, has globalization overwhelmed the traditional cultures of these lands or have the western values informing and animating globalization been able to find some sort of uneasy accommodation with the values and world-views that were there before? Furthermore, has..."

Tags:latin, american, globalization

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This paper looks at Hispanic culture and how it has helped shape and mold American culture. The great extent to which Latin American dance, music, and food have become an intrinsic part of the overall American culture is cited as an example of this influence. The paper concludes by suggesting that American culture truly is a blend of cultures from all over the world.

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"America has often been referred to as the great melting pot, a smorgasbord of people with various racial, cultural and ethnic identities and traditions. Tied to this view is the idea that the culture of the American people should be defined as a cornucopia of different cultures melded into one to form a new, hybrid culture. Many different cultures have influenced the overall culture within the United States particularly that of the Latin American people with whom I associate."

Tags:melting, pot, ethnic, cultural, identities, traditions, united, states

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This paper examines the globalization process and its cultural impact upon all nations, with an focus on developing nations. In particular, the paper considers Latin America and foreign investment has which has exploded there because of its considerable natural resources, the lower cost of labor and production, and because of its robust and diverse population. The paper concludes by stating that globalization is now the most significant cause of economic and political change that the world has seen in the last two decades.

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"The globalization process and the cultural impact it has upon all nations - but especially developing nations - is a fast-growing concern of academics everywhere. To wit, to give just one example, since 1990 foreign investment has exploded in Latin America because of its considerable natural resources, the lower cost of labour and production, and because of its robust and diverse population. Predictably, many MNCs have now extended their operations to regional offices in different cities around the countries in South America (Granell ,89). Globalization, put simply,..."

Tags:cultures, latin, american

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The Latin American recording industry has always been a unique industry that blends economics, entertainment, and culture. The majority of its entertainers depict the variety of ethnicity that is part of Latin American culture. This paper investigates the Latin American recording industry, the genres of music and hybrid styles, and the role label companies play in producing and managing the artists. It also looks at how music interacts culturally, politically, and economically, affecting social identity Research in this paper shows that there is a complex relationship between the industry itself and the development of pan-Latin identities, as well as a more intricate relationship between economics and culture. In addition, the research demonstrates that the Latin American recording industry is a powerful medium for creating images among consumers, which impacts the desire to be like their idol. Finally, this paper summarizes the potential changes created by a new business model for the Latin American recording industry.

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"Aside from the confusion between Latin American and Latino music, the U.S. Latino market is undergoing a crucial transformation, perhaps more in taking stock of reality than in reality itself. It is no secret that U.S.Latino music has largely meant the kind of pop associated with Jennifer Lopez, Marc Anthony, Ricky Martin and the like, or with so-called tropical music (salsa and kindred genres). New York and Miami are the capitals of this kind of pop and tropical, but when the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) "the music industry's trade organization" began dividing Latin music sales by genre in 2000, they discovered the overwhelming sales dominance of the Mexican regional market, which is based in California and the Southwest, particularly Texas, and generates 60 percent of the US$640 million market for Latin music sales."

Tags:RIAA, Gypsey, Kings, Warner, Sony

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This paper explains that Latin America's rich and puzzling political history is a reaction to its social conventions and racial formations, which acquit "conventional" discriminatory practices of racism by legitimizing their intrinsic cultural appeal. The author points out that, in Latin America, there is no clear line between cultural and physical elements or between social and biological hereditary. The paper stresses that, in Latin America, far from being opposites, blackness and indigenousness have been inextricably entangled throughout history; however, indigenous people do not represent "slavery" as the embodiment of blackness but rather blackness is fused with images of self-liberation.

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"Although the opposition of self-identifying with racial hierarchies is what motivates the culturalist definition of race in Latin America, the deceptively dominant anti-racist sentiment is directly correlated with the discriminatory attitudes dealing with mestizaje-racial mixing. Metizaje is historically viewed as the impure consequence of rape or female sexual deviance. It resulted in coining an individual from mixed races "cholo" in which he/she represented a moral, not biological, degeneration that stirred the original racial order through an inappropriate cultural environment."

Tags:mestizage, intrinsic, blackness, indigenousness, cholo

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The purpose of this paper is to discuss the influence Latin-American music has had on popular music and the music business in the United States. The paper describes the Latin American music, dance and visual style and the growing popularity of Latin American music.

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"There has been a virtual explosion of popularity of Latin music along with the Latin population of the United States in the last few years. Latino artists inhabit a sense of racial and ethnic identity that remains literally untranslatable into North American English and they are grounded in a Latin-American literary and artistic canon to which most monolingual North Americans do not and often cannot have access. Their music, dance and visual style has swept the planet. This is what..."

Tags:musical influences, bolero, tango, meringue, culture, artists, mainstream, crossover

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This paper examines how although most Latin American countries were given suffrage as early as 1940, 30 years later, by 1971 women were still locked into a culture of Catholicism, control and machismo. The paper discusses the many aspects of women's rights that need to be addressed in order for women to be truly accepted as equals.

Table of Contents:
General Suffrage
Latin American Suffrage
Human Rights/Women's Rights
Women and Employment
Employment and Working Conditions
Argentina and Mexico
Latin American Women Reproductive and Health Issues
Latin American Women's Health Issues
Latin American Women in Politics
Human Rights Issues for Women in Latin America
Legal Protection for Latin American Women
Latin American Women and Violence
Conclusion

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"The Roman Catholic Church has a strong political hold on the hearts and minds of Latin American and the influence of the Roman Catholic Church has kept a majority of Latin American women chained to the cycle of childbirth. Despite the fact that a majority of Latin American women have been the "beneficiaries" of universal suffrage since World War II, family planning that was not in accordance with the Roman Catholic Church's edicts has been severely limited. A woman who is unable to obtain or hold a job because of her constant gravid state is unlikely to put emancipation before basic survival. Unfortunately Latin American's economic condition has suffered because of as burgeoning uncontrollable population explosion which compromises the health and welfare not only of the women large numbers of children but the children themselves."

Tags:suffer, vote, literate, activist, democratic, equality, workforce, church, children, pregnancy

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This paper first outlines the cultural, business, and technological changes that contributed to the rise in popularity of Latin American music. The paper then analyzes the demographic, cultural, and technological influences that contributed to a decline in demand for Latin American music.

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"The music industry is undergoing a global technological revolution which has been induced by the introduction of Peer to Peer (P2P) file sharing services, and the proliferation of recordable CD equipment which his now within the financial reach of the average consumer. Any one of these three influences alone could have been absorbed by the recording industry. The presence of a P2P service which was limited only to sharing files between computers would have been convenient and fun. If consumers could only put personal music tracks on portable music devices, the convenience would have expanded the reach of the individual's music collection, much the same way that personal cassette recorders did in the 1970's. Although the music industry was worried about personal cassette recording abilities of the past decades, the inherent poor quality of personal recordings meant that the demand for studio recordings remained high."

Tags:personal, digital, recording, equipment, metropolitan, immigrant, ethnic, rca, columbia, victor, records, salsa

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This paper profiles a typical Latin American revolution and examines why these countries are so susceptible to these uprisings. It addresses the historical, social & cultural variables of a revolution and the possible moves to democracy. It also examines a few of the successful Latin American democracies and asks what makes them prosper.

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"Revolution is a sudden, forcible change of the political and social order often accompanied by violence, in which a significant section (not always a majority) of the population participates. Revolution usually occurs when a general climate of discontent exists in a society. A modern historian, Craine Brinton, has analyzed the conditions in a society ripe for revolution and saw a pre-Revolutionary society as "having a combination of social and political tensions, caused by a gradual breakdown of the values of a society.""

Tags:revolution, democracy, state, coup, politics, political, leader, guerilla, castro, fidel, catholic, church, south, america

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The following paper details the impact of Latin music on America's pop culture.

Tags:impact, latin, music