Culture And Culture In Colombia
analytical Essay
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Culture could be defined in many different ways (Houghton Mifflin Company, 2002 ) “defines culture as the sum of attitudes, customs, and beliefs that distinguishes one group of people from another. Culture is transmitted, through language, material objects, ritual, institutions, and art, from one generation to the next”. (Houghton Mifflin Company, 2002 ) Going back centuries to when they were a part of a country called Gran Colombia, they have always had a rich and fruitful culture. The primary language in Colombia is Spanish, while the primary religion is Roman Catholic. (US government (CIA), 2016) As far as their customs Colombians are very family oriented they differ from typical American customs by the way they greet each …show more content…
In this essay, the author
- Explains that culture is the sum of attitudes, customs, and beliefs that distinguishes one group of people from another.
- Explains that colombia was once known as gran colombia, but collapsed in 1830 to create 3 different countries.
- Explains that colombia's main military conflict has been a five-decade-long conflict between government forces and anti-government force named la farc.
- Analyzes how colombia's weather and terrain affects the population along the coastline and inland. the country is heavily populated by agriculturists, and la farc gets funded by drug cartels.
However in 1830 the nation of Gran Colombia collapsed to create 3 different countries the other two being Ecuador and Venezuela. The main geographical features of Colombia are the terrain which is flat with coastal lowlands, central highlands, high Andes Mountains and eastern lower plains (US government (CIA), 2016). According to (US government (CIA), 2016) the basic area comparative is slightly less than twice the size of Texas. Countries that boarder Colombia are Brazil, Ecuador, Panama, Peru and Venezuela. The typical Climate in Colombia is tropical along the coast and eastern plains and cooler in the highlands. Natural resources include petroleum, natural gas, coal, iron ore, nickel, gold, copper, emeralds and hydro power (US government (CIA), 2016) . The natural hazards include volcanic eruptions, occasional earthquakes and droughts; other geographical notes include Colombia being the only South American country with coastlines on both the North Pacific Ocean and Caribbean Sea. According to (US government (CIA), 2016) their main environmental issues are deforestation, soil and water quality damage from overuse of pesticides, air pollution especially in the city of Bogota, from vehicle …show more content…
The main way the weather and terrain affects the population along the coastline for example, the year round tropical weather is great for commercial fishing and a year round tourist attraction where tourist take advantage of the tropical climate. Inland Colombia’s weather varies much more where summer is from March thru December and winter (rainy season) is from December thru March. Inland there is a significant lifestyle change being that it is more industrial and city scape. Although the major cities in Colombia include Cali, Medellin and the country capitol Bogota are where most of the population exists, there are huge rural areas where most of the population (US government (CIA), 2016) consist of agriculturists. According to (US government (CIA), 2016) these are the area’s that are most heavily populated with LA FARC and where most of the terrorist acts take place popular to contrary belief. When terrorist attacks take place in the major cities they will get and create more media attention. Where as in the more rural areas, it does not also in these rural areas is where most of the kidnapping takes place. As far as smuggling the weather and climate play as much of a part as the overall geographical position of the country; being that Colombia is on the Panamanian border it made it easy to take extremely large amounts of Drugs primarily Cocaine to be distributed throughout multiple parts of Central America
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- Explains that colombia is the only country in south america that has coasts on both the caribbean sea and the pacific ocean.
- Explains that colombia is known for its famous andes mountain chain. the ranges of the mountain are separated by deep depressions.
- Explains that colombia is located in a torrid zone. the climate is determined by the land elevation.
- Explains that the indigenous flora and fauna of colombia are as varied as the topography. the caribbean coast and the forest region is where most mangroves and coconut grow.
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- Explains that colombia lies in the northernmost part of south america, bordering the caribbean sea, the amazon, and the orinoco.
- Explains that the wide range of topographical elevations has encouraged agricultural expansion in colombia. the agricultural sector contributed 14% of gdp, excluding coffee, with a production worth almost 11 billion us.
- Explains that colombia is the world's fifth coal producer and the largest exporter of thermal coal. colombians grow their coffee between 1.000 and 1.600 meters above sea level.
- Explains that colombia's sedimentary basins contain large oil and gas deposits. present production levels average 540.000 bpd, providing a surplus for export, and natural gas reserves total 6.8 cubic feet.
- Opines that colombia's biodiversity will lead to important developments in the fields of medicine and food production.
- Explains that colombia is a melting pot of different cultures from spanish, african, and indigenous roots. the church is the main leadership and authority in colombia.
- Explains that colombia's economic freedom score is 76.7, making it the 34th freest in the 2014 index.
- Explains the guerrilla opposition against the colombian government in the 1940s and 1950s.
- Explains that the colombian upper class consists of prosperous white elite, some of whom draw their lineage to the nobility of the colonial era.
- Explains the diversity of the middle class in colombia, which placed some of its members scarcely above the lower class. the untaught and the poor lived on the sociopolitical edge.
- Explains that colombians have an 85% school attendance rate despite the economic downfalls and the environment. colombia has made great strides in the medical community.
- Opines that colombia is not a utopia for vegetarians as the colombian diet involves lots of meat.
- Explains that breakfast is quite significant in colombia, while lunch is the main meal of the day – at least in the countryside.
- Explains that tourism in colombia is slim to none. the government provides electricity and water to its citizens, while the poorest are in the mainland ibague, neiva, tunja.
- Explains that the colombian air force is a nationwide police force with jurisdiction in every town in colombia.
- Opines that colombia's future is bright with rainforest, and coffee reserves. the country of cocaine and kidnappings is the best uncharted adventure haven in south america
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- Explains that colombia was given its name in 1863 in honor of christopher columbus, even though columbus never visited colombia. alonso de ojeda was the first european to set foot on colombia in 1499.
- Explains that colombia became a target to all spaniards because of the assumed riches there. the obsession with el dorado drove many people to go to colombia.
- Narrates how colombia struggled for independence in the 1970s after the french revolution. bolivar led the fight against spain and defeated them at the battle of boyaca.
- States that colombia is the fourth largest country in south america. its land area is 1,038,700square kilometers or 401,042 square miles.
- Explains that colombia's government is a republic with 32 departments and one capitol district, fe de bogota. the current president is juan manuel santos.
- Explains that colombia is the world's leading exporter of petroleum, coffee, coal, apparel, bananas, and cut flowers.
- Explains that colombian religion is 90% catholic, 1% indigenous, religions and 9% protestant, jewish, muslim, and mormon. there are traditional roman catholic churches all over south america.
- Describes colombia's warm and tropical climate. its rainy season starts in may and ends around november. the temperature varies little because it is so close to the equator.
- Explains that colombian art has 3,000 years of history. the artists capture political and cultural backdrops. spanish catholicism is a huge impact.
- Explains that colombian food varies depending on the type of region. there is a large variety of lobster, fish, and seafood along the coast. breakfast is an important meal.
- Explains that fuchi, rana, and trompo are popular games for children.
- Describes shakira as a popular colombian singer and songwriter. she was rejected by the school choir because of her strong voice.
- Opines that colombia's biggest sport is soccer, and the greatest victory was in 1993, when they beat argentina 5-0. they were upset because one of the points gained by the united states was scored by medellin.
- Explains that there are many places to visit in colombia, such as our lady of las lajas, the salt cathedral of zipaquira, and the villa de leyua.
- Explains that carnival is the biggest celebration in colombia. it ends with the burial of joselito carnival and ends after senorita cali is selected.
- Explains that many major events occur in colombia, such as palm sunday, holy week, good friday, candlemas, easter, and christmas.
- Opines that colombia is a beautiful place to live and has an interesting history and tons of emeralds, fresh fruit, and much more.
- Cites unbound.org, culturecrossing.net, cuororesources.c, about-columbia, natural resources, and don quijote salamau s.l.
- Cites encyclopedia britannica's ebchecked topic, columbia, 2008 by children’s press, imprint of scholastic inc.
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- Explains that brazil has 5 climatic zones causing the weather to vary depending on the region. northeast brazil experiences limited vegetation as it is the driest part.
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- Explains that brazil's communications are modern, although the north is less developed than the southern regions. however, access to the internet is still at 50 percent of citizens, which seems drastically low compared to citizens access in america.
- Explains that the educational system in brazil is made up of private and public schools. in rural areas, children are often unable to attend school due to having to work to support their families.
- Explains that brazil was involved in different revolts with confederates and mercenaries during emperor pedro i’s reign.
- Explains how the federalist revolution was overcome with the first brazilian republic being victorious. world war one ended empires and gained formations of new countries.
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- Opines that colombia is one of the most violent places in the world, with a murder rate 8 times as much as the united states of america.
- Explains that colombia is prone to earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, which makes it hard for poverty-stricken areas to stay in one place.
- Explains that corruption comes from exporting to america, while most things exported to the united states from colombia are oil, coffee, and fresh cut flowers.
- Opines that human rights standards should be natural for people, not something they have to think twice about to obey. colombians are beaten, raped and shot to death by their own military everyday.
- Opines that colombia needs some serious rearranging politically, socially and overall to get back on its feet.
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- Analyzes the underlying reasons contributing to the outbreak of violence and the events that transpired during the bogotazo.
- Explains that colombia's history has had many episodes of violence since it won its independence from spain in 1819. the people of colombia, venezuela, ecuador, panama, northern peru, western guyana, and northwest brazil united to form a single nation called gran colombia.
- Explains that gran colombia after 1831 went through several name changes, including the republic of new grenada, the grenadine confederation, and the united states of colombia.
- Explains that conservatives preferred a weak central government and favored freedom of religion, public education, free trade, and press. they feared that under federalism there would be little money available for development in rural areas.
- Explains that the thousand days war between conservatives and liberals was fought between 1899 through 1902, but the problems that divided the two parties did not go away.
- Explains that the conservative party continued in power until 1930, but lost its hold on the nation as a result of labor violence in 1928.
- Analyzes how jorge eliécer gaitán became an important presidential candidate in colombia after the 1928 labor strike.
- Analyzes gonzalo sanchez's insight on the tensions in colombia when gaitán arrived from europe.
- Explains that in 1948, bogota was preparing for the 9th pan-american congress. the united states secretary of state, george c. marshall, was going to attend the congress with the objective of getting delegates from all the different latin american countries to sign a document pledging that they would not allow communists party members
- Reports that juan roa sierra shot gaitán three times from behind while on the steps of the church of san franciso.
- Explains that the mob was frustrated because it could not reach the presidential palace, and began looking for other targets to attack. the first attack was directed at foreigners because they were somehow responsible for the nation's food shortages, inflation and speculation going on in colombian markets.
- Analyzes how a radio station controlled by liberals party supporters announced gaitán's death and riots began occurring all over colombia. the radio broadcasts aggravated the protests by spreading inaccurate information and sounding out political slogans.
- Opines that the colombian revolution is the greatest the world has known.
- Analyzes how the liberal party acted quickly to elect daro echanda to replace gaitán, and the conservative party tried to restore order by sending out the military, but there were too many people to control.
- Explains that neither the military nor anyone in authority could stop the riots that day. the devastation was incredible, with over 3,000 people dead and 146 buildings destroyed.
- Opines that the riots did nothing to make the situation any better in colombia. the death of gaitán and the bogotazo in 1948 would later be used by historians to mark a new era of violence.
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- Recounts how jorger eliecer gaitan, a moderate socialist congressman, gave hope to the middle and lower classes in colombia. after ten years of civil war, the colombian government established an accelerated economic development (aed) program.
- Narrates how marulanda lost control of marquetallia and became a symbol of hope and leadership for all of the peasants and farmers around colombia.
- Analyzes how the colombian government stopped paying much attention to these groups and concentrated its military capabilities to deal with the conflict between colombia and venezuela.
- Explains that the farc has been classified as a terrorist organization by the governments of colombia, the united states, canada, chile, new zealand, and the european union.
- Explains that colombia's trade agreement with the united states opened new doors to foreign direct investment and growth in the manufacturing and industrial sectors.
- Explains that colombia is currently in a peace process with the farc. the two sides started the negotiations in artelua but moved shortly after to havana.
- Analyzes the iep study that ranks the level of impact terrorism has in colombia's society and economy.
- Argues that a peace deal would strengthen formal employment, hasten poverty reduction, and improve quality of life. without an internal war, investors would be less at risk of losing assets in rural areas from the farc.
- Explains that venezuela has become a major base of operation for the terrorist organization, since it allows it to transport weapons and drugs in and out of colombia.
- Explains that colombia's education system is underdeveloped due to the internal conflict against the farc.
2226 wordsRead More - Columbiaopinion essayChaos best describes the current state of the Republic of Colombia. Rebelling terrorist groups from within the country threaten to topple Colombia’s actual government. Again and again, Colombia has shown its inability to fight the rebelling terrorists and simultaneously protect its civilians from harm.
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- Opines that america needs to intervene in colombia to prevent proliferation of further export of illegal drugs to the united states.
- Explains that the united states has several reasons to intervene in the colombian crisis. the first is to protect citizens from the destructive and often deadly effects of drug addiction and drug-related crime.
- Cites the united states' cong. house committee on international relations' international global terrorism: its links with illicit drugs as illustrated by the ira in colombia.
- Opines that the us finds a palatable word for military aid to colombia.
- Opines that america must find a way to solve the colombian problem, or the american people will suffer the consequences.
- Argues that the united states has every right to protect its citizens from drugs and the crime and social problems that follow them.
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- Explains that agents in miami arrested six american airlines employees in a separate investigation.
- Opines that attorney james burns told president clinton during a may briefing that the gd have "a very...
- Explains that the organization and battle plan were created by gd chief, larry "king."
- Describes discipline, respect, and hierarchy. at the top are the "chairman" (hoover) and two "boards of directors."
- Explains that under the directors are about 15 "governors" who oversee up to 1,500 members each.
- Explains that at the bottom of the organization, "enforcers" and "shorties" mete out fines.
- Explains that a joint us and local law-enforcement investigation is trying to dismantle the gd.
- Explains that the funds would largely be spent on the purchase and maintenance of s. 2341.
- Analyzes the micro-management of drug tactics based on a shallow analysis of the problem and our summary:
- Explains how federal agents charged 12 delta air lines employees of smuggling drugs into the united states. nine delta airlines workers were arrested and three others are sought as suspects in a scheme that brought 10 tons of colombian cocaine to the u.s. via flights from puerto rico.
- Compares the new york times, usa today, and delta workers indicted on cocaine smuggling charges.
- Explains that cocaine and heroin were placed on a plane in bogota, but not unloaded until after the plane had landed in miami and then made one domestic round trip flight to avoid surveillance at miami international.
- Explains that the gangster disciples operate a sophisticated retail drug network that stretches into 35 states.
- Opines that the gangster disciples are one of if not the largest and most successful gang in the history of the united states.
- Explains that the gang lures young recruits from poor and jobless communities with the promise of easy cash ($50 to $200 a day) and bigger reponsibilities.
- Explains that exercise and cleanliness were also required, including stealing from or showing disrespect to other members.
- Explains that the gd organized the lucrative drug trade in chicago in the late 1980s, augmenting its earlier goals of guarding and expanding gang turf.
- Explains that sales in the englewood neighborhood of chicago have reached $1 million a week. when one "crew" is arrested, replacements appear within hours.
- Explains the crackdown on gd leadership has fueled internal strife as members struggle for power. more than a dozen murders and scores of shootings have plagued the gang since january.
- Introduces the drug elimination act, which calls for an 80% reduction in the amount of illicit drugs smuggled into the u.s. by the end of 2001.
- Explains that gen. barry mccaffrey's goal of a 10% reduction in drug smuggling over three years in the national drug control strategy was "completely unrealistic."
- Explains that militaries, ostensibly for fighting drugs, authorizes an enormous sum of money to continue to be spent on a policy that has had absolutely no successes heretofore.
- Explains that u.s. funding for anti-drug efforts in latin america has increased more than 150% over the last ten years. coca cultivation is 11.7% higher, and opium production has doubled.
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In this essay, the author
- Explains that colombia emerged from the collapse of gran colombia in 1830. over the last 40 years, there has been a campaign to overthrow the government partly because of the drug trades throughout colombia.
- Explains that colombia's economy continues to improve despite the last couple of years, with an increased number of government budgets, efforts to reduce the public debt levels, and an export oriented growth focus.
- Explains that colombia became the major narcotic trafficking center in the 1980's. it started with the first colonization, which had grown coca for thousands of years.
- Explains that colombians started refining cocain in kitchen laboratories, which led other "chemists" to colombia. the medellin trafficking syndicate took control of the wholesale distribution in the united states in 1978.
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