I think the correct answer from the choices listed above is option 3. The sentence that is the most paradoxical is that "He was old enough to understand the innocence of children." A paradoxical sentence is a sentence that contains self-contradictory words. In this case, the rods old enough and innocence seems to contradict each other.
Answer: Trade allowed new technologies to spread.
Explanation:
The correct answer to this open question is the following.
Although there were no options attached, we can say the following.
This is an example of cultural appropriation.
What this businessman is doing is stereotyping Hispanic people that indeed they were like that, but 100 years ago. But bot today. Not even close.
It would be the exact same case if, in some South American country, a businessman would try to sell United States products, hiring a US citizen and making his wear clothes to look like Uncle Sam, and talking like Uncle Sam or wearing Quakers clothes and behave as colonists did during colonial America.