... due not only to disparities in wealth but also in disparities of: Wealth IT Infrastructure Education Culture o (eg. Most Internet content is in English or languages of the OECD nations) The Argument We will show that IT makes the arts more elite because it increases accessibility only to the ... to anyone other than a very elite very privileged few. Developing countries have always been slow to adapt to innovation and technology in a recent study conducted by the world bank we can see that in 1999 more than 65% of the OECD population own a main telephone line and an ... infrastructure mo...

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... discussing Enlightenment ideas in Portuguese America is how did the ideas get there? Brazil had no printing presses and no universities, unlike Spanish America and English America. The answer is young colonists went to Portugal to study, mostly all of them went to the university of Coimbra, the most famous and influential university in Portugal. Between 1772 - 1785 around 300 Brazilian born ... the end of the "detestable metropolitan yoke of Portugal", and the abolition of slavery and equality of all citizens, especially mulattoes and blacks. They wished their government to be "democrat...

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