HIST 360 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: North American Free Trade Agreement
13 Apr 2016
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Latin america--21 countries in north/central/south amer + caribbean islands. Since 1970"s, can govt has made bigger effort to trade w lat amer, increasing # of lat amers migrating to can. But only 1 country is in 40 poorest in world (haiti) Large wealth inequality--10/15 most unequal countries r in lat amer. A lot of creativity coming out of lat amer. Diverse race/ethnicity/culture, one of the most diverse places on earth. Indg ppls (90% of indg ppls lived in lat amer in 1492) White ppls of eur descendents (spanish, portuguese initially, then other parts of eur+asia) Italians in argentina, germans, chinese in peru, japanese in peru/brazil, syrians, lebanese, jews in argentina. Coerced as slaves, largely to brazil + caribbean (far more than to. Last countries in lat amer to abolish slavery (cuba 1886, brazil. 1888, both peacefully) bc of how essential it was to econ. Mestizo--mixture of spanish or portuguese and indigenous. Mulatto-mixture of spanish or portuguese and african.
