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The document describes how European explorers initially denied the existing culture and constructions in America and treated it as a "tabula rasa." This led to the massive destruction of indigenous populations and hindered the formation of a hybrid culture. America was understood as a laboratory to test utopias and develop capitalism through the accumulation of surpluses and the exploitation of labor. Later, a "matter-of-fact project" emerged to leave.

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