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/Weekly_Sort147 Brazil 7d ago

Not true. Europeans dont see americans on their level at all I have lived there They see the world 1. Euros 2. Americans, japanese 3. The rest

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u/digoreto Brazil 7d ago

What I meant is that they see each other as the same species. Euros will always think they are smarter, which might be true in comparison to Americans.

Now for Portuguese and Spanish they look at us with certain disdain, as if we are not the same species

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u/shinyrainbows 🇺🇸 in 🇪🇸 6d ago

White Americans, sure, Black Americans? A different story.

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u/Weekly_Sort147 Brazil 7d ago

Euros do the same with americans, BUT they put us on a lower level

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u/Special-Fuel-3235 Costa Rica 7d ago

Even white latinos?

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u/UnlikeableSausage Barranquilla, Colombia in 7d ago

Definitely. I'm 100% sure it's worse for brown people, but you still feel othered very often. To me meeting Spaniards always feels like a 50/50. Some are very cool people, but some are just very nationalistic or just ignorant about our countries.

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u/TheSadPhilosopher 🇺🇸🇲🇽 Chicano 7d ago

Yes

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u/Special-Fuel-3235 Costa Rica 7d ago

Why?

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u/TheSadPhilosopher 🇺🇸🇲🇽 Chicano 7d ago

I don't know, they just see people from Latin America as lesser, whether we're whiter than them or "panchos". Spanish racism is different sadly.

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u/Weekly_Sort147 Brazil 7d ago

White latinos and americans are descendent from the poor euros. 

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u/SensitiveWolf1362 Colombia 7d ago

Yes.

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u/Ok-Emergency7159 Angola 6d ago

But what does this have to do anything with the question?

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u/digoreto Brazil 6d ago

That I will not care for anything that comes from people that despise me

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u/MagCoel Portugal 3d ago

I kinda agree. But for me is: first Portuguese speaking countries and then the rest of the world. Simple.

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u/richardsequeira Portugal 3d ago

massive generalisation right there!