MODERN LATIN AMERICAN CULTURE.

The article presents information on modern Latin American culture. In the Northward of the boundary of Mexico lies the great area of Anglo-American culture, whereas Middle and South America comprise the region of Latin American culture. It is believed that North Americans have some familiarity with their own culture, even though they may not understand fully its basic patterns and premises. And on the basis of their own mode of life they are often wont to make snap judgments concerning the fundamental configurations of the patterns of living south of the border. It seems that both North America and Latin America share a sufficient number of certain patterns to enable them to be included within the area and broad general pattern of that culture known as Western Civilization. When that is said, however, it would appear that they represent varieties, and rather divergent ones at that, of this general organization of life. The Latin American cultures seem to have a common general framework and a common tone which enables them to be seen collectively as a cultural design distinctive from that of other varieties of Western Civilization. Although the Portuguese colonization of Brazil followed lines somewhat different from the Spanish colonization and involved some distinct cultural values it can be postulated that Brazilian culture of the present day conforms more closely to the general Latin American type than to any other.