This week we learned through Alexander Dawson’s reading and his video about modernity. Modernity as he phrased is can be defined as “having a number of elements” such as innovation, emancipation, secularization, and universalism. We focused on modernity in Mexico where in society there were many groups of people who wanted to become modern but as Alexander Dawson states, when they meant modern, it was to look more like Western Europe.<\/p>\n
For me what this week struck me the most was the how it was believed that what was “better” for a society, to modernize was the ideal image of Western Europe and what it took to achieve that level of modernization.<\/p>\n
We also read through an interview between Creelman and Diaz, the president of Mexico. Creelman using positive diction when describing who Diaz is, idolizing who he is as a very hero like figure. It was portrayed with the focus being the positives of Diaz whereas there were several factors that were not mentioned that are negative that occurred during modernization. It was a interesting read, and I wonder why there is so much emphasis on Diaz’s positives, even as Creelman describes him physically.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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