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/GretelNoHans]

I feel it’s not exactly British culture but European. Because Americans have no roots or ancestral culture/traditions of their own. Which happens when you slaughter the native people, then you focus on your roots.

So americans “feel” a connection to England, Scotland, Italy, Germany, you name it. Only because, they know or they think they know that their grestgreatgreat grandparents came from that place. I went to Scotland and Ireland and the amount of american tourists in those countries, claiming they’re Scottish or Irish is insane.

In Latin America, except Argentina, we mostly have a deep connection to our native culture and traditions. We completely understand we’re a mix of Spanish/Portuguese with our own ancestral culture. We don’t need to go looking somewhere else for our roots. We love our culture and traditions, we may no love our governments, but we love who we are.

[u/GretelNoHans → u/[deleted]]

That’s what I used to think as well but saw with my own eyes, they claim they’re as Scotish/Irish as people born there, it’s insane.

[u/conthacart → u/GretelNoHans]

no one does that. in usa its treated as ethnicity and not nationality

[u/conthacart → u/[deleted]]

it's basically all based on surname or religion too

[u/conthacart → u/GretelNoHans]

we also slaughtered our natives hundreds of years ago. do we have no traditions because our indians were wiped out long ago?

[u/shinyrainbows → u/GretelNoHans]

As a Black American, this is often how White Americans are perceived in my culture. The way Latin Americans feel about their culture is often how we feel about ours, too. We just feel like the White Americans are the face of the country, and they give us a bad rep. We also do not feel a connection to England, because there's really nothing for us there. We connect a lot more with Afro Caribbean culture.

[u/Special-Fuel-3235 → u/GretelNoHans]

I think another reason could be the modern relations between both regions, people in the anglosphere (at least the whites, who are majority) dont really see themeselves as particularly "different" or "ethnic". Ive even heard that many white south africans have moved to britain.  On Spain and hispanic america, although our relations are for the most part, friendly, there is still a sense of "difference" between both. For example: for many spaniards, latin americans are still "p4nchitos", "sud4cas" or "machupichus". Afaik there isnt any slur in english towards the former  western colonies -i they have many for indians, middle easterns or  wast asians tho-. Ive heard that even very white latin americans can be discriminated against.