Explority_Ethnicity_As_A_Major_Cause_Of_Violence_In_Latin_Am

Explority Ethnicity As A Major Cause Of Violence In Latin America Exploring Ethnicity as a Major Cause of Violence in Latin America – Primarily Guatemala & Columbia By: Derek Lowe Friday, April 25, 2003 This research paper is entitled exploring ethnicity because that is my endeavor. To support my thesis of ethnicity as the major factor of violence in today’s countries of Guatemala and Columbia. For clarification on the meaning of the word ethnicity – I will give the definition as the following: Ethnic Background, way of life, trait, etc.1 This definition will be key in understanding of ethnicity part in the violence portrayed in the countries of Guatemala and Columbia. My main focus will be however on the country of Guatemala. The dictionary defines the way of life as being part of ethnicity. Therefore that brings in several major factors of the Mayan indigenous people. One major factor was the fact that their lives were governed by their religion. Research shows that “ Religion Permeated all phases of Mayan life. Law and taxation, for example, were interpreted as religious principles and religious offerings. Education was conducted mainly as training for priests, who made reading, writing, and learning caste specialties…. They conducted the numerous public rituals, including some human sacrifice by decapitation.”2 We violence, spanish, people, life, indigenous, new, ethnicity, ethnic, mexico, way, racism, major, guatemala, been, land, spain, research, religion, now, mayan, indian, creoles, world, today, shows, race, percent, part, latin, found, even, over, mestizos, ladinos, independence