03-14-2021, 11:51 AM
(03-14-2021, 10:00 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: 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.
Argentina is fully Western, but Guatemala with its majority Maya-derived population is certainly not. Some Jamaicans are hyper-British, but many more, who practice Rastafarianism and speak Patwa, cannot be called fully Western. These are fusion cultures and the future certainly belongs to fusion cultures.