Week 6: Citizenship and Rights in the New Republics

I find the history of rights and citizenship in Latin America to be quite interesting. The history of slavery in the region draws parallels to the U.S. Southern States where a lot of the economy was based around slavery, even after slavery was abolished the same "unofficial practices" cropped up in the United States, and were actually even more official than the LA "policies". Another thing that suprised me was the apparent disdane for women in LA, whereas in Europe and elsewhere race was seen as a more important distinction, in LA race wasn't viewed as importantly as gender was. The lack of rights for women in the New Republic of LA was very surprising.

Another thing which was rather interesting was the divide between Native Americans and Colonialists when it came to both land laws (the semi serfdom of Native Americans) and the symbolism that the liberal elites used when trying to sow nationalist fervor in their respective countries compared to their treatment and belittlement of the living Native Americans was also rather appalling.

Overall I found the issues of citizenship and rights in the New Republics to be interesting and strange when compared to Europe and North America, but at the at the same time similar in multiple ways.