Cultural Representation and Human Rights of the Inter-Americana in the Contemporary Environment

Abstract

The increasing interaction between the political and social culture of the United States and the culture of Inter-Americana has created conditions of significant conflict and convergence in certain areas of American society. By analyzing the forces that have contributed to both the rejection and embrace of Inter-Americana within the culture of the United States, one may come to understand how both the political and social environment has influenced the manifestation of the cultural representations of Inter-Americana which may be identified in the contemporary environment. This study seeks to examine such representations through an analysis of multiple scholarly works relating to certain critical elements of said representations. It is argued herein that the entrenched political culture of the United States has contributed to a rise in negative cultural representations of Inter-Americana, however, a new wave of positive representations has begun to manifest through an embrace of cultural diversity by segments of the Inter-American population.