{"id":24,"date":"2016-11-03T23:12:26","date_gmt":"2016-11-04T06:12:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/rachlast\/?p=24"},"modified":"2016-11-03T23:12:26","modified_gmt":"2016-11-04T06:12:26","slug":"week-7-the-export-boom-as-modernity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/rachlast\/2016\/11\/03\/week-7-the-export-boom-as-modernity\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 7: The Export Boom as Modernity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This chapter was about the export boom and development of Latin America. I found it interesting when Dawson mentions that even today in Latin America, there is a mix of the traditional old world and the modern new world. I noticed this myself while traveling in Central America last year. Some Latin American people are completely devoted to tradition, while others are not. I guess this is common everywhere in the world, but the divide was certainly more noticeable in Latin America. Especially from place to place and person to person.<\/p>\n<p>It was interesting to discuss this topic in class, as I had never considered the difference between agricultural exports vs technological exports. One point made by Barbara, was that even though most Latin American countries have an export economy, usually they don&#8217;t do as well as Canada for example, because of their &#8220;monoculture.&#8221; Exporting only one or few types of goods can be great for the economy when the world is after the product- but devastating as soon as the world doesn&#8217;t need that product. This helped explain to me why a lot of Latin American countries don&#8217;t have a consistently booming economy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This chapter was about the export boom and development of Latin America. I found it interesting when Dawson mentions that even today in Latin America, there is a mix of the traditional old world and the modern new world. I noticed this myself while traveling in Central America last year. Some Latin American people are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44547,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/rachlast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/rachlast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/rachlast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/rachlast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44547"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/rachlast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/rachlast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/rachlast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions\/25"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/rachlast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/rachlast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/rachlast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}