Word: latinization
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...American love story between East High's basketball star, Troy, and math ace Gabriella has proven a triumph not just for Disney - which has reaped around $680 million in retail sales from the franchise to date - but for cultural globalization. In Latin America, HSM concerts play 50,000-seat stadiums. Swedes and Puerto Ricans, Mexicans and Poles have been among the millions to take in HSM: The Ice Tour, which has three worldwide touring companies. The stage show has played in dozens of cities worldwide, including Beirut, where it premiered during violent clashes. On HSM web forums, fans from Madagascar...
...programming and marketing. You go different places to reach different people." The franchise had good timing; HSM's appearance coincided with the rise of a global middle class that's equipped to absorb it. When it first came out in 2006, the newly minted consumers in the Middle East, Latin America and Asia had the TVs to watch it on; their kids could keep the buzz alive via Internet and cell phone. After the movie aired on Chinese TV, Ross called his man in Beijing to ask for viewer numbers. "Oh, above average," came the response. "About 50 million...
...this gift will encourage future donations, particularly in non-Western art. For Molesworth, “One of the things we need to do in the first half of the century is to expand our collection to reflect developments and traditions in other parts of the world, most significantly Latin America.” Not only would this make the Harvard Art Museum’s collection more diverse and exciting, it could potentially serve as a valuable teaching tool for classes that explore art outside the Western tradition...
...city in the world. Still, as I've recounted my experience to Chilean friends, I've been struck by their response: Rather than a commonplace experience, they regard it as a depressing sign of changing times - an indication that Santiago, long regarded as the safest capital city in Latin America, has a growing crime problem...
...Latin American countries are losing control of their police forces due to growing economic inequality, leading to political violence aimed at the poor, warned John M. Sheffield II ’09, during a presentation on police brutality in South America yesterday evening. The discussion focused on the two summers Sheffield spent in Buenos Aires, working with the Argentinean human rights group La Liga Argentina por los Derechos del Hombre, as well as researching his thesis there. Sheffield, who is an undergraduate associate and research fellow at Harvard’s Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, emphasized...