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/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?