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Examples Of Ethinicty In Latin America

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After reading Chapter eleven I learned how race is looked at culturally among different places and what race and ethinicty is looked at. For example in Latin America where the Spanish and Portuguese colonized, many Afrcians and Native Americans were more free to have sexual contact with other races/people, so their were more mix races and caused more people in Latin America to be more accepting, even though attitudes remained about "Whiteness" and "Blackness". Another example I learned was how American culture views race, they equated race with lower socioeconomic status and intelligence and whats interesting is that how race and ethinicty in one culture shows social status and where you belong, just because of how you look. Ethinicity in cultures

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