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This 10 page paper discusses E. Bradford Burns' book, The Poverty of Progress and supports the comment that Latin America is a beggar sitting on a golden mountain. Examples are given throughout the paper, quotes from the text cited and referenced. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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in his book, The Poverty of Progress, illustrates this very concept and gives likely reasons why someone may have felt compelled to make such a statement about the state of
affairs in Latin America. What exactly were the series of events which led to this position of ridicule and indignity? Most colonization begins, it can be stated, with a
desire for land, goods, resources, and strategic military operations. In a struggle of strong versus the weak, the might of the invading principality overcomes the weaker culture and as such
has an influence from the beginning. A blending of cultures is almost immediate in that even a culture which rises from the ashes of a decolonized nation is never as
native as it once was, but is at best a hybrid. Such is the case with Latin America. Constantly bombarded with foreign invaders, eventually the cultures were unable to fend
them off any longer. Latin Americans were forever changed. Their language changed, their clothing changed and for many they were forced to change their religious affiliations, too. Was this for
their own good as many Europeans claimed? This would seem to be arrogance on the part of the conquering nation. How can colonization be justified if the stereotype of the
lowly culture is not perpetuated? However, one could submit that given the nature evolution of time, their culture would have evolved in a way that was right for them. Quite
obviously they were surviving quite nicely without European conveniences and diseases and there is no reason to believe that they would not have continued to do so had they been
left undisturbed. What a loss to the world, in hindsight, were the various invasions and conquests throughout time. Consider what lost ancestral knowledge will never be known, possible cures for
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