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This is a 6 page paper discussing colonial Latin America in relations to the patron-client relationship and social classes. While colonial Latin America was segregated into a hierarchy of social and class systems with the Spanish elite at the top, the maintenance of the system was possible by the textured social networks within communities which existed before the introduction of the Spaniards but nevertheless added the elite Spaniards as the ruling class. The Spaniards did their best to degrade the culture of the Native Indians by introducing Spanish customs and religion and separating the communities into barrios however although the Indians observed these new customs in a public sense, their private identity still contained traditional cultural, familial and social elements. Largely the Spanish elite ruled with stability based on the belief in the class system which expected them to manage the communities with justice. When that expectation failed however, consensus among the lower classes was obtained and riots ensued which led the way to eventual independence.
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by the textured social networks within communities which existed before the introduction of the Spaniards but nevertheless added the elite Spaniards as the ruling class. The Spaniards did their best
to degrade the culture of the Native Indians by introducing Spanish customs and religion and separating the communities into barrios however although the Indians observed these new customs in a
public sense, their private identity still contained traditional cultural, familial and social elements. Largely the Spanish elite ruled with stability based on the belief in the class system which expected
them to manage the communities with justice. When that expectation failed however, consensus among the lower classes was obtained and riots ensued which led the way to eventual independence.
Throughout Latin America during colonial rule, the class system was very much divided between the races with the Spaniard elite at the top of
the social hierarchy, followed by the wealth Spaniards who owned the land and the wealth, the poorer Spaniards who dealt mainly in trade, those of mixed Spanish-Native heritage, the Native
Indians, and the Negro slaves (Vinson, 1995). Largely throughout the colonial era until the beginning of the urban riots in the late 17th and early 18th centuries, the social stratification
remained the same as the wealthy white merchants and elite maintained control of the economic monopoly. Neighborhoods were not only segregated by color lines but they were also controlled and
governed by the distribution of labor availability and water (Lipsett-Rivera, 1993). While the labor class aided in the construction of the cities based
on the Spanish blueprint of towns around a central square, the Indian laborers began to form and live in their own barrios. Originally forming private neighborhoods, the Spanish elite soon
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