LATIN AMERICA

What social classes exist in this region:

• Peninsulares
• Creoles
• Mestizos
• Mulattoes

IS WEALTH CONCENTRATED OR MORE EVENLY SPREAD OUT:

• In Latin America, health is
• pretty heavily spread out since
• majority of people are poor
• while only a few are rich.

What are their fashions, literature, music and art like:

• -Fashion depends on area but usually
• people wear something like sombreros, boots and ponchos.
• -Music is latin music originated from other latin countries
• for example salsa or tango.
• -Literature consists of the oral and written literature of Latin America

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• In several languages like Spanish and Portuguese.
• -The art has riots from many different cultures that
• Inhabited the Americas before the European colonization

WHO ARE SOME IMPORTANT ARTISTS IN THE REGION

• Leon Ferrari (Argentina)
• Jose Bernal (Cuba)
• Boris Vallejo (Peru)

HOW DO PEOPLE EDUCATE THEIR YOUNG

• Almost all children attend to primary school and
• access to secondary education has increased considerably.

What do children learn at school or at home:

• -In Argentina in an elementary school people
• the children's subjects are quite the same than
• Ours are like math and English.
• -At home children learn how a family works and
• For example how to and when to eat.

HOW IS LAND OWNED AND SHARED

• Individuals
• Government
• Companies

Is land used for farming, livestock or manufacturing:

• Depends on what area you are
• talking about but a lot of land is used
• for farming in the rural areas but in the
• Urban areas for manufacturing and livestock.

What kind of goods and services do people exchange:

• Coffee, vehicles, oil etc.

What items do they change with those outside the region:

• Coffee, transport equipment,
• vehicles, cotton, soybeans, corn
• Oil and oil products, wheat, nickel,
• Fruits etc.

What are the main minority groups in the region:

• Native Americans
• Blacks
• Asians

How equally are men and women treated: