Latin America and Anglo-Saxon America

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“Latin” America and “Anglo-Saxon” America

Latin America is conceived as inferior to the United States and Europe, from the perspective of “modernity.” This conception has been formed because of the ideas of Latinidad. Latinidad is an ideology under ex-Spanish and ex-Portuguese colonies that were located in the new global world (Mignolo, 2002, p. 58). In the end Latinidad ideology became a consequence of colonial and imperial conflicts and how those conflicts had been constructed (Mignolo, 2002, p. 89). These ideas of Latinidad connected to the reorganization of imperial power in Europe. This ideology of Latinidad then connected to how the Creoles moved from a colonized group to becoming the dominate elite in the matrix of coloniality. Finally Latinidad helped mark the difference between “Latin” America and “Anglo-Saxon” America while introducing a hierarchical relationship between the two.

The European imperial power was reorganized. This reorganized power came over to the present day South America and conquered the lands to lay their (Europeans) “foundation” (Mignolo, 2002, p. 52). When the Europeans came over and conquered these newfound lands it was considered a “foundation” in parenthesis because technically they were not the first to conquer the lands. The Europeans came over and partook in a process called Pachakuti. This term means describes how the Europeans came over; they came over created complete destruction to already created civilizations, invaded these then civilizations, and completed disregarded the fact that these civilizations existed. Latin America was a “consequence of the remapping of the colonial/modern world prompted by decolonization of America and Emancipation of Europe” (Mignolo, 2002, p. 89). L...

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...nce again to be further behind “Anglo-Saxon” America.

Modernity has helped develop the world to how it is perceived today. For this reason Latin America is inferior to the United States and Europe. Europeans came and took over the land in Latin America and for this reason Latin America was inferior to Europe because they were unable to be better than what Europe had. The United States had White Supremacy in their favor as well which also allowed the United States to be superior to Latin America. With the Northern America being so different from Southern America they were given names of “Saxon” America and “Latin” America to differentiate the two areas. This once again helped show the hierarchical relationship between “Latin” and “Saxon” America.

Works Cited

Mignolo, W. D. (2005). The Idea of Latin America (pp. 1-94). Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing.

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