Modernity Varities In Latin America

Depending on who you ask, Latin America can be defined in a multitude of ways. For the specifics of this essay I will talk about counter-narratives to the term “Latin America” and how modernity ties into this story. In one sense, Latin America refers to territories in America where the Spanish or Portuguese languages prevail. Latin America is, therefore, defined as all those parts of the Americas that were once part of the Spanish and Portuguese Empires. Coined also by the British with a sense that the people there are no longer controlled by the Spanish and Portuguese but that the. Catholicism was a tool in this. However, Catholicism was believed by the US and British to promote mixing. They wanted to spread the protestant work ethic. Latin

This one-sided universe produced by the Euro-centered capitalist colonial power was elaborated and formalized by the Europeans themselves. Established in the world as an exclusively European product and as a universal paradigm of knowledge of the relation between humanity and the rest of the world. Such convergence between coloniality and the elaboration of rationality/modernity was not in any way accidental, as is shown by the very manner in which the European paradigm of rational knowledge was elaborated. Associated with the emergence of capitalist social relations, in turn could not be fully explained outside colonialism particularly not as far as Latin America is

Also, many elites sent their children abroad to the US, in which they were very much influenced and shared values with the US. Latin America was an audience to the USA’s rants about race. Criticisms state that modernization theory projects a model of European and American development to Latin America, and consequently overlooking the fact that Latin societies are quite distinctive. While modernization preached economic development through a process of acculturation in which the Latin American traditional society would shed its Catholic values and acquire modern, Western, and sometimes explicitly American values, studies of corporatism often warned their American readers that Latin America could not be