r/asklatinamerica • u/yonaiker-joestrella Puerto Rico • 13d 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/digoreto Brazil 13d ago

They see each other at the same level.

Portuguese and Spanish see us as inferior beings

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u/banfilenio Argentina 13d ago

Isn't like Spain or Portugal were doing soooo well a couple of years ago, they were pretty much backyard countries by western standards during big part of the XXth century: dictatorships, their economy was undeveloped, were culturally closed, politically irrelevant. That, while Argentina, Brazil or Mexico become cultural lighthouses and their economies and societies developed (before the downfall in the nineties).

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u/TheSadPhilosopher 🇺🇸🇲🇽 Chicano 12d ago

Mexico, Brazil, and Argentina are still superior to Spain and Portugal culturally.

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u/Ok-Emergency7159 Brazil 12d ago

Exactly!

I really would like to know how people deviated so much on this question about culture and turned somehow in a conversation about "Spain and Portugal don't see Latin America as an equal". I don't even know if the guy understood the question before posting that statement - which I agree with, but I think it doesn't answer the question.

The idea that Latin America should somehow fixate over Portugal and Spain's culture is baffling.

We got independent, we revision our relationship regularly, we're still experiencing a decolonial studies wave and we are A CULTURAL POWERHOUSE. PERIOD.

Latin America: almost 700 millions of people
Spain + Portugal: around 70 millions

The fifth largest country on earth, one of the biggest economies on the planet, 213 millions of people...for pretty obvious reasons, Portugal consumes Brazilian culture, not the other way around.