The essential questions that were given were “Why is it essential to acknowledge human value regardless of race? How are the events in the Latin American revolutions evidence of this social imperative? We studied the impact of the independence of classes in Latin America by reading over articles that summarized the events that occurred in the countries. After reading the summary timelines were made to show in chronological order the major events that took place while trying to become free of their classes. Each group summarized a different revolution and they each presented their findings so that everyone understood each revolution.
Between all the revolutions there were 2 major differences and commonalities. First of all, all countries were fighting against the same type of government, a monarchy. Also they were all trying to change that monarchy into a different form of government as well. The differences between the countries were that Brazil was mostly peaceful in their revolution, while Columbia was very militaristic, and Mexico was a combination of the two. Race was an issue for all three of the countries through one way or another. In Mexico, lower groups such as mestizos and slaves revolted due to being less privileged. In Brazil, the people didn't want their races being undermined by other races in Europe. The people of other races than Portuguese in Brazil became suspicious when Pedro will only hire people of Portuguese descent. Lastly, in Colombia the people from South America didn't want to be oppressed by the people of Spanish descent.
Today society has created stereotypes. This is how we judge people without really ever meeting them and it heavily affects people of different race. An example of race affecting us now is the Ferguson case. This is extremely controversial because a young black man was shot and the police officer was not charged under any account which is extremely upsetting to a large population of the country. I think that race is an extremely important part of society now, but in the wrong way. If we were to stop talking about race is the only way from not being racist because if we keep speaking about race the way we do now then people are going to continue to be racist.
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