For those who see history as a competition, Latin America's backwardness and poverty are merely the result of its failure. We lost; others won. But the winners happen to have won thanks to our losing: the history of Latin America's underdevelopment is, as someone has said, an integral part of the history of world capitalism's development. Our defeat was always implicit in the victory of others; our wealth has always generated our poverty by nourishing the prosperity of others— the empires and their native overseers. In the colonial and neocolonial alchemy, gold changes into scrap metal and food into poison.
— Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent.
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oh you study liberal arts?? well i study marxist arts. guess im just better than you
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"Simultaneously narrated as a paradisiacal terrain of sensuality and opulent beauty, and a hellish space of hidden terrors and masked monstrosities [...], the tropics have long been employed as an expression for Western narratives of cultural fears and desires for domination. Imagines and Gothicised as the birthplace of the ultimate Other⎯one to be 'civilised' or eradicated by modern Western forces⎯tropical and sub-tropical milieux have been used as a vehicle for imperialist and colonial discourses. [....] Tropical Gothic incorporates such othering discourses, but it also subverts them by situating them alongside reimaginings of the relationship between the Western/Northern (as centre) and the Tropics (as marginal)."
— Anita Lundberg, Katarzyna Ancuta & Agnieszka Stasiewicz-Bieńkowska, "Tropical Gothic: Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences."
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Because it is trending, and something i think about often,
Did you know native people of oceania and latin america are related?
As in, share DNA?
Did you know the first inhabitants of south america were polynesian explorers?
It never fails to blow my mind
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Português learning resource pt 1
Part 1. Old textbooks and workbooks!
I managed to thrift these textbooks online for a pretty good deal. Before working with these books, I had to learn the basics ( I used apps like Doulingo and Pimsleur )This textbook is only in Portuguese. I love that because it exposes me to different words and the grammar in it is definitely beginner friendly. By the end of 2025, my goal is to write/type out my post only in Portuguese. This by far is one of my favorite textbook to study Portuguese, it’s challenging and it push you to use context clues when working on each unidade.
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