Latin American Dependence

The idea of dependence in Latin America was essentially the idea that the people who were born from the indigenous people of Latin America could run the country much better and without the help of the European countries that controlled the land. The reason they believed this was that the indigenous people were smarter than the whites even though they were technically less educated. The indigenous people new the land and the culture and some of the true problems of the country while the more educated whites did not. Also, there was the argument that even though these whites who ran the country went to college and got these great educations there was nothing taught within these colleges on how to properly run a country. Thus, the indigenous people thought that well we understand our countries better than those whites so we could do a much better job of running the countries they reside in. Many whites in Latin America suffered from Eurocentrism which is basically focusing so much on the progress of Europe and that culture and completely ignoring the wider view of world or for the whites of Latin America the countries they were running and controlling. And that was Marti’s main argument that these white men from European countries and where so well educated focused too much on the developments of Europe instead of the environment they were trying to control. So, he stated that many of the indigenous believed they were more focused on the issues in the country around them. One of the most influential mediums was acting and foreign actors by playing roles in films that show how dependent Latin America was and having some of those roles be keys in the revolution of Latin America. These were just a few things that were part of Latin America’s dependency.