It is safe to say that Latin American Civilization is by far my favorite class. Despite much opposition, I decided to take it. Everyone in my family told me I should take European Civilization because that part of the world holds more power and influence in our lives here in America. But I wanted to do something different. In school I never learned much about Latin America, save for the Spanish Conquest for gold and the United States' imperialist policies towards Latin America. I could not believe that this was all that was important about Latin America. There had to be so much more information that we just weren't being taught in school because they deemed it irrelevant to our culture today.
Seeing as I am fulheartedly planning on studying abroad somewhere in Latin America, (despite my family's push towards Spain) I think this course will be very helpful to me in this regard. When I go to Chile or someplace in Latin America perhaps I won't be as ignorant as the rest of the world believes us Americans to be.
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