>>19435Thanks for the the answer, but I do think that LatAm is still part of the west at least on a cultural and political level.
For your first point, you’re right that most normies refer to central/Northern Europe (a.k.a., financialised capital Europe) when talking about “Europe”, but it goes without saying that southern Europe is, well, still part of Europe and it’s that region that influenced Latin America the most, notwithstanding the massive waves of German and Eastern European immigration in certain countries like Brazil.
>extremely CatholicWell, Catholicism is an European denomination, hell the pope is in Rome LOL
I do acknowledge there has been some syncretism with indigenous beliefs to form a kind of “folk Christianity”, although the extent of which I’m not sure but it’s probably exaggerated by the more fundamentalist Prot missionaries in LatAm for recruitment purposes. One of their favourite tactics is to point at folk practices and declare that this makes Catholicism a false pagan doctrine.
Wrt language, maybe you’re right, although Idk much about the differences between Castilian and Latin American varieties of Spanish to have a definitive opinion on that. Same with culture, although I don’t think it can be denied that said culture is a product of Iberian colonialism and as such Iberian cultures play a great role in shaping Latin American cultures, whether it’s in the Andes, Patagonian, Amazonian, Caribbean, Central American or Mexican cultures.
As for politics, I would still say it’s western as Latin American politics have heavily been linked with American and European politics, at least relative to Latino relations with Africa and Asia. Like, even the alternative to the ‘capitalist shaft’ is socialism, itself being a western ideology.
So while I do think LatAm is a peripheral region, I would say it’s definitely part of the western world, or at least has a better claim to it than Japan, and wignats love Japan LOL