Social_Hierarchy_of_Latin_America

From my pyramid today and the pyramid I created last time, there isn't much difference. In fact, they are so similar that I wouldn't have known which was which. Latin America today is almost the same exact copy of itself two hundred years ago. In places such as Peru and Columbia, the indigenous are still at the bottom and the white skinned Europeans are still at the top. The whiter Europeans live better off than the mestizos and the indigenous, even though they work the least. They can live a rich life even though they are not rich, just because of their skin color and what they have to their name. They can obtain lots of lands from their ancestors and be able to pay for everything they need for the rest of their lives just by occasionally selling off a chunk of land. Mestizos, on the other hand, are a part of the working class. They work hard to find jobs to feed themselves and their family. Employment with good compensation is hard to find, and without an education, it would be even harder. In Peru, 90% of the whole population is uneducated because of language barriers. Even though the national language is Quechua, and most of the people speak it, everything they teach in school is in Spanish. Countries like Peru seem to be formed by the white European man, for the white European man (which is true!) instead of the majority that should be able to benefit from it. And because most of the people aren't able to get an education because of the language barriers, mestizos and the indigenous turn to agriculture and become farmers. The revolution in Latin America shouldn't be even recognized as a revolution at all. It was certainly not a success. They were just pretty words woven into a blanket to cover up the truth. Under the layers of blankets, everything is still the same. The goal of the revolution was to achieve equality among the people, and unite the countries of Latin America into one huge country. But that hasn't happened yet, hasn't it' People are still being ranked by their skin color, and it has been around for so long, it's been engraved into their minds. It's even become something that a religion supports! For two hundred centuries, the people have been saying, "The whiter skinned are better. The whiter skinned are better." They've been saying it for so long, that they've gotten used to it, and believe in it. The whiter skinned are confident and think they're better than everyone else, while the mestizo and the indigenous yearn to have whiter skin and even disclose their backgrounds. They distance themselves from their backgrounds and they feel ashamed of their heritage. Your heritage is something that shouldn't be shamed of, but to be proud of. In the USA, there are a lot of people with diverse cultures, and we walk around everyday, proud to be representing our cultures. But after the constant demoralization of the people, it's something that they've gotten used to and believed in for almost 200 years. They've been saying it then, and they still say it now. It would be extremely difficult to change something that has been there are a long time.