06-14-2022, 01:53 PM
(This post was last modified: 06-14-2022, 01:55 PM by Eric the Green.)
(06-13-2022, 01:56 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: If it is culture -- Latin-Americans are people of Western culture. To be sure, many of the people fleeing the drug wars (financed by the blood money that American addicts so lavishly supply!) of Central America are heavily indigenous peoples... but they adapt rapidly.
America already has a well-entrenched and often-prosperous Mexican-American culture that can assimilate these people.
It's a good point. There is western background as well as indigenous that we share with them. It is the Latin pop culture that tends to repel me; the food and the popular music they like. But can I say much better about the dominant typical pop American culture, or its diet? Not really. At a deeper level, and deeper into the country, Mexico has interesting heritage. The Latino/latinx accents are not pleasant, but the Spanish language itself has a lot of Latin roots in common with English.