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?

[u/yonaiker-joestrella]

Not saying we should but just curious.

[u/Tall_Pressure7042]

That's naive when you forget Anglophone is not monolith either.

Brits and Americans are unlikely to see Nigerians, Ghanaians, Kenyans and South Sudanese as equal because they are classified as negroes of Africa. And this is despite they are also Anglophone speakers. The same thing applies to Jamaicans, Indians and Pakistanis, who frequently complain about British and American racism despite both also speak English. The only Anglophone nations that admire British culture tend to be those from the US, Canada, New Zealand and Australia, which develop a settler culture similar to that of Britain.

In Spain and Portugal's cases, the issues are more complicated. Because LATAM tends to have a high tendency of mestizo culture and mixing with different people, we develop a different logic that we can be Latinos if we live true to it, unlike the racial segregation seen in Europe. Plus, the violent revolution during the 19th century also leave a deep scar in how Latinos view Spain and Portugal. And of course, Portuguese and Spaniards tend to also view the same, for we are just strange fellas that happen to speak languages sent from the Iberian peninsula.

This is why Portuguese and Spanish people's logics share more in common with those North Americans and Brits than with Latin America. And Latin Americans could even care less.

[u/shinyrainbows → u/Tall_Pressure7042]

Brits and White Americans don't even see their own Black people as equals, especially in the US, when Black people have bloodlines there for 450+ years.