Latinos and Americanos: The two societies compared
"Both the
United States and Brazil are continental in size, and the rest of the
Western Hemisphere consists of countries and colonies where people speak
Spanish, French, Creole, Dutch, Papiamento, English, Portuguese, or an
indigenous Indian language.
In
the United States, there are states as different as tiny New Hampshire
and huge California. In Latin America, there are lands as different as
Indian and mestizo Guatemala and lily-white Argentina. Argentina has
always been an enigma. Its people are so white and European that they
joke that they are really Italians who speak Spanish but would like to
be Germans or Englishmen.
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