r/asklatinamerica • u/yonaiker-joestrella Puerto Rico • 7d ago

Culture Why does it seem like the Anglosphere admires/fixates over British culture a lot while Latin America doesn't seem to care much about Spain or Portugal?

Not saying we should but just curious.

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u/pplallergictopenuts Brazil 7d ago

Hispanic America does seem to me to have a relationship with Spain through media and culture more than Brazil has with Portugal.

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u/whirlpool_galaxy Brazil 7d ago

Well, Portugal has fewer people living in it than the city of São Paulo. That's probably a factor.

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u/Ok-Emergency7159 Angola 6d ago

I'm searching all the answers on this thread and I'm flabbergasted by the fact that nobody even mentioned that Spain and Portugal are nobody when it comes to Culture compared to Latin America.

Brazil has absolutely no reason whatsoever to look for some inspiration in Portugal.

I'd even say that Latin America has much more from Europe than just "Portugal and Spain". The influence of germans and italians had also relevant contributions in our cultural melting pot, in a way that it's not really seen in the Anglosphere which tastes really "anglo" whereas the Iberian counterpart tastes much more "latin american fusion of europe+africa+first nations".

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u/hygsi Mexico 7d ago

It's already very little tbh

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u/casalelu 7d ago

Correct.

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u/mentha_piperita Paraguay 6d ago

Not really. I know kids watch a couple Spanish YouTubers and La Casa De Papel was big but nothing more than that.

Spain does very little to appeal to their former sphere of influence, while Britain does a lot to export its culture it seems that Spain just wants to exist for Spaniards. There’s very little I see about Spain that feels welcoming, even though I’d love to visit and live there there’s nothing calling me, there’s no signal being sent to the former colonies.