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Are there any legitimate reasons why they are not going further in Travels with Middle East, and Asia? For Spanish speak people from Argentina/Chile/Panama/Peru/Mexico/Spain? Is that false misconceptions in reinforcing native culture? Able to occupy equal amount of alliance to their background without having to close off the outside international boundaries that alien to them past Italy like visits at the furthest.
Are there any legitimate reasons why they are not going further in Travels with Middle East, and Asia? For Spanish speak people from Argentina/Chile/Panama/Peru/Mexico/Spain? Is that false misconceptions in reinforcing native culture? Able to occupy equal amount of alliance to their background without having to close off the outside international boundaries that alien to them past Italy like visits at the furthest.
Not sure if I understand what you mean, but Latin American people are usually not as wealthy as North Americans or Europeans, and distance to exotic destinations tend to be very large. So, the amount of travelers to far off destinations tend to be much lower, and it’s fair to say that familiar destinations come first. Anyway, I’ve met quite a few people who have been to places like Turkey, Egypt, India, Thailand, Vietnam, Russia, etc.
It has nothing to do with any cultural insularity or anything like this.
Are there any legitimate reasons why they are not going further in Travels with Middle East, and Asia? For Spanish speak people from Argentina/Chile/Panama/Peru/Mexico/Spain? Is that false misconceptions in reinforcing native culture? Able to occupy equal amount of alliance to their background without having to close off the outside international boundaries that alien to them past Italy like visits at the furthest.
It has nothing to do with what you state. Simply, overall people are less well off, so those that travel beyond their borders for vacation do so mostly to famous vacation spots in the region (Buenos Aires, Lima, Punta del Este, Río de Janeiro, Cartagena, Punta Cana, Panamá City -major shopping destination due to the really good deals there-, La Habana, Mexico City, Iguazú Falls, Varadero, Cancún, etc). The region really has it all. Places like Orlando (that mouse is quite something, lol), Miami, New York City, Las Vegas and a few other places in the USA are quite popular among Latin Americans not living in the USA. European destinations are mostly Spain (especially Madrid, Barcelona, Seville, and the Costa del Sol regions) and the usual places in France (Paris) and Italy (Rome, Venice, Amalfi Coast, etc).
I imagine the holy land recieves a good nuber of Latin American tourist. I personally have no interest going there but several of my religious relatives have been there.
My wife is Peruvian, and I can tell you that they don't. Her attitude towards Spain ranges from a usual mild curiosity to occasional contempt when she gets nationalistic.
Spain is her third choice for places to visit in Europe, as we have been to Italy a couple of times and made it to Paris, and might get to Spain sooner or later. The reason that she wants to go to these places has nothing to do with "identification," but is simply the same reputation of good sight seeing as inspires most people.
I am a white guy, and for my part, I love Italy, but beyond that, I would much rather go back to Peru, to Mexico or even Bolivia than to Spain. As a history guy, I find Teotihuacan and Tiwanaku much more interesting than Alhambra. But I suppose that is off topic.
Well....Latin America is called Latin America because of their shared culture, especially with Latin Europe. Most Latinos have European background to a certain degree, either full or partial since the region is one of the most diverse in the world and mixing has been happening since the 1400's.
Latin America shares a lot of "popular culture" with Europe for example in the arts like film and music, the regions have been sharing music for a while! European artists go to work in Latin America and Latin American artists go to work in Europe.
Like I've mentioned, many Latin Americans have closer ties to Europe since their families were originally from Europe and why would they want to lose their culture? It only enhances the local culture if anything. When I lived in Mexico for a while I knew many people in the capital and elsewhere who had family in Spain, Italy, France, Germany and Great Britain but they always told you they were Mexican first and foremost but they loved their heritage, and even if they also had a passport from a European country, they would always cheer for Mexico in the world cup. This is also true in Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Venezuela, Chile and Paraguay and other countries who also received many European immigrants in the 1800's and 1900's and even now because of both economic crisis in the last 20 years since many recent grads, especially southern Europeans, go to Latin America to find jobs and make their new lives there....again...met so many in Mexico from Greece to Portugal and everything in between!
Unfortunately, the video is only in Spanish. It was done in Spain by obviously Spaniards and this part he speaks of Hispanic Americans (to differentiate Brazilians and other groups that are included in the term Latin America).
In short, Hispanic Americans and the Spanish-speaking republics of America are considered sisters of Spain. In addition, he blames certain leftists that want to create a division between Spain and Spanish America. It does poses a problem for the title of this thread, for starters. He refers to Hispanic Americans as the brothers of Spaniards.
Well....Latin America is called Latin America because of their shared culture, especially with Latin Europe. Most Latinos have European background to a certain degree, either full or partial since the region is one of the most diverse in the world and mixing has been happening since the 1400's.
Latin America shares a lot of "popular culture" with Europe for example in the arts like film and music, the regions have been sharing music for a while! European artists go to work in Latin America and Latin American artists go to work in Europe.
Like I've mentioned, many Latin Americans have closer ties to Europe since their families were originally from Europe and why would they want to lose their culture? It only enhances the local culture if anything. When I lived in Mexico for a while I knew many people in the capital and elsewhere who had family in Spain, Italy, France, Germany and Great Britain but they always told you they were Mexican first and foremost but they loved their heritage, and even if they also had a passport from a European country, they would always cheer for Mexico in the world cup. This is also true in Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Venezuela, Chile and Paraguay and other countries who also received many European immigrants in the 1800's and 1900's and even now because of both economic crisis in the last 20 years since many recent grads, especially southern Europeans, go to Latin America to find jobs and make their new lives there....again...met so many in Mexico from Greece to Portugal and everything in between!
You use the adverbe "many"....many times. What does it mean exactly? 10? 50k? 10 million?
Given that European immigration to Latin America has been vastly insignificant and that most Latin American never attracted much Europeans at all What kind of ties do most people in Latin America have with European countries? Parents? Grandparents? Relatives from 400 years ago? Is it full ancestry, or marginal ? And is that that carry the same?
What's driving some Latin Americans to claim their "Europeaness"? Is it due to family values, or some other less noble, unspeakable reasons?
You use the adverbe "many"....many times. What does it mean exactly? 10? 50k? 10 million?
Given that European immigration to Latin America has been vastly insignificant and that most Latin American never attracted much Europeans at all ...
That's not true. South America recieved many Portuguese, Italian and German immigrants. The city of Caracas alone recieved half a million portuguese in the 20th century. Many more Italians went to Argentina. You can find lots of Communities like this through out Latin AMerica, some countries more than others.
Reminds me of a professor I had in college in the USA who said not many Spaniards went to Latin America, hence the consideration among US “experts” that most of the people the Spanish considered mestizo was a lie. In reality they were indians brainwashed to believe they were mestizos.
Then the DNA results from various parts of the region came to light and it turns out that the so called mestizos were, well, mestizos. lol I would do anything to see him again and have him explain the findings.
It turns out that Spanish migration to the region was bigger than thought for so much of a typical Latin American DNA to be from there. Of course, the overall population in Latin America was much smaller then, so the arrival of say 10,000 Spaniards to a given place had a greater influence in the people genetic make up than the arrival of 10,000 Spaniards today.
Maybe they thought that Latin America was like Equatorial Guinea or The Philippines, where indeed Spanish DNA is very small in the overall DNA of the places. Will you look at that.
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