03-14-2021, 10:00 AM
I am satisfied that Latin America is fully Western. Such societies as Mexico and Peru have effectively melded Native-American culture into the mainstream. Descendants of African slaves (especially those of partial white ancestry) may be hyper-British in Jamaica. In the USA, the slave masters long ago obliterated all African culture from slaves, foisting onto them to the extent possible a parody of English peasant ways.
Note well that a majority of the people of Argentina are of Italian American origin... "Italian" is about as core Western as one can get. Spain and Portugal as influences on all Hispanophone and one Lusophone culture are powerful influences.
Note well that a majority of the people of Argentina are of Italian American origin... "Italian" is about as core Western as one can get. Spain and Portugal as influences on all Hispanophone and one Lusophone culture are powerful influences.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.