Identifications - Images 1.0
Identifications - Images 2.0
Identifications - Texts 1.0
Identifications - Texts 2.0
Cultural Dimensions
100
This image is the metaphor used to represent this concept of time in Verses on the Death of his Father
What is linear time?
100
The natural properties of the banana were praised by Andrés Bello in this poem to highlight the economic potential of South American natural resources and produce.
What was "Ode to Agriculture in the Torrid Zone"?
100
Written in 1492, by Jorge Manrique, the following lines of this poem illustrate the European Linear View of Time: Our lives are like the rivers that flow into the sea and terminate;
What is Verses for the Death of his Father?
100
This leader who fought in the Wars of Independence believed that the new republics in Spanish America should be governed by a benevolent dictator.
Who is Simón Bolívar?
100
According to Hofstede's cultural dimensions, the following image represents people who live in this type of culture.
What is individualist?
200
This item gave Meso American indigenous people a cyclical or circular view of time with repeating 52-year eras.
What is the Calendar or Calendar System?
200
Although it is now challenged by historians, there was a prophecy stating that this Meso American deity would return in the year 1 Reed, "from the East", in the form of a bearded man who would then replace all the gods with another, ending the current 52 year cycle and ushering in a new era.
Who was Quetzalcoátil
200
This line in the movie Even the Rain "That's interesting, that's what I'm told you pay your extras" is said by this character.
Who is the Mayor (of Cochabamba).
200
In One Hundred Years of Solitude, José Arcadio Buendía's quest for this is representative of Spanish American history.
What is progress or modernity?
200
The idea that one's ancestors have relevance in one's current family life is indicative of this type of cultural mindset.
What is collectivist?
300
The central message of this painting, as symbolized by the candle, the hourglass, the clock, and the skulls.
What is time moving in a linear way, and the inevitability of death?
300
Europeans in the past gave this name to the highlighted area on the map, thinking that it was a mostly deserted and uninhabitable area.
What was "The Torrid Zone"?
300
In the movie Even the Rain, “(You said) 'Two f----ing dollars a day and they’re happy' I worked in the States for two years in construction. I know this story.” is spoken by this character to this character.
What is Daniel to Costa?
300
The author of this essay wanted to draw a contrast between the materialist or utilitarian culture of the US and the more "spiritual" one in Spanish America.
A civilization acquires its character not from a display of prosperity or material supremacy, but from the grandeur of thought and feeling possible within it.
What is Ariel?
300
The use of this type of communication happens more frequently in countries with this high PDI.
What is mitigated speech?
400
Known for having developed the idea of the "Common Good", this theologian influenced Spain's approach to including the indigenous populations into the social order in the "New World", rather than excluding them entirely (as was the case with England).
Who was Thomas Aquinas?
400
This Nobel-prize winning author said this in his acceptance speech: “In spite of this, to oppression, plundering and abandonment, we respond with life..." and captured the essential "Latin American response" to repeated exploitation, interrupted progress, and an existence outside of the "First World". 
Who was Garbiel García Márquez?
400
The following lines from this poem represent Spanish America's answer to US intervention in the 19th century.
Be careful [...]
There are a thousand cubs loosed from the Spanish lion.
...
one would have to be, through God himself,
the fear(ed) Rifleman and strong Hunter,
to manage to grab us in your iron claws.
And, although you count on everything, you lack one thing: God!
What is "To Roosevelt"
400
Octavio Paz referred to the perceived existence of past eras co-existing in the present moment using this term.
What is simultaneity?
400
People living in a low PDI country would expect this way of organizing people to exist but to be primarily a tool and not an indication of a person's "value".
What is a hierarchy?
500
In this image from the film Even the Rain, Sebastian, is shown with the actor who plays this Taino leader who rebelled against the Spaniards.
Who is Hatuey?
500
Known as the "Queen of Salsa" the lyrics of many of this musical artist's songs such as "Ríe, Llora" (Laugh, Cry) illustrate the idea of "responding with life" to the inevitable disappointments and defeats - which is understood to be a particular type of Hispanic cultural practice. 
Who was Celia Cruz?
500
In New England, English colonizers came into occasional contact with nomadic tribes of Indians. They therefore believed the land they were taking to be a "wilderness". According to Octavio Paz, the Spaniards encountered something else. In Mexico, they encountered this "as well as geography". And this still "lives", and speaks to Mexican authors.
What is history?
500
One of the first challenges to Spanish colonial rule was made by the Dominican Friar Antonio Montesinos in 1511 in this location. Its focus was the ill-treatment of the indigenous populations.
What was a chapel in Santo Domingo, DR. (Hispañola)?
500
Geert Hofstede, the originator of cultural "mapping" defined culture as being this of the mind.
What is collective programming?