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Colombian Culture

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My understanding of Colombian culture was deepened during the interactive oral. The role of gender and the political environment of Macondo were discussed. During the discussion, we credited women with more power than they seem to have in One Hundred Years of Solitude. In Colombian culture, women play the role of a caretaker, watching over their families. The matriarch of the Buendías, Úrsula Iguarán is practical and wise and looks after her husband José Arcadio Buendía and prevents him from compulsively spending his money. She puts in the most effort to save her family from falling apart. After Úrsula's death, the Buendía household reduces to turmoil. Marquéz illustrates society’s dependence on women and how men take women for granted. While

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