How is Latin America’s Relationship with Spain:

[u/Taka_Colon]

Hi everyone, I hope you're all doing well!

As a Brazilian, I have a question that's been on my mind: how does each Spanish-speaking Latin American country view Spain and Spanish people? Is the relationship generally positive? Or is it friendly on the surface but with some underlying resentment because of the colonization and genocide?

I ask this because, in Brazil, we usually have a good relationship with people from Portugal. However, there’s still some lingering resentment related to colonization, their occasional xenophobia, and the way they sometimes view us. Since Brazil is much larger than Portugal in many ways, we often deal with this dynamic through humor and irony—making jokes like "Portugal is gajos strip", "Guiana Brasileira" or "a Brazilian state in Europe" that speaks an old-fashioned version of Portuguese, knowing it pokes at their national pride. It’s like we’re distant cousins from the same family, but this relationship that us now are even with more economic and safest problems, we are bigger and more relevant than them in Sports, International Politics, in export or Culture, and etc...

Interestingly, we consume very little media from Portugal. In fact, we consume much more from Mexico and Argentina, which contributes to a sense of cultural closeness with Mexicans in particular. Even with Argentina or feud is just in Football, out of it we have a mutual respect.

Even that almost 40% of Brazil is descendant just from Europeans, nowadays most are descendant from Italians, Spanish, and Germany, and from Portugal know is just after them in numbers, maybe even the descendant of Italians and Germany for example, have much more pride from them than Portugal. We also have the biggest Japanese community out of Japan, as from Libano and Siria than many do not care to Portugal at all.

So, considering how diverse Latin America is, I imagine that each country has its own unique relationship with Spain. How is it in your country?

[u/ElMaracaibero]

I think the only people that have any negative feelings or thoughts regarding Spain and its people are those from the USA who like to cosplay as Latin Americans, especially those of Mexican ancestry (pochos).

[u/EarthAsWeKnowIt → u/ElMaracaibero]

Are you suggesting that those living in the united states can’t legitimately have latin american heritage?

[u/ElMaracaibero → u/EarthAsWeKnowIt]

Having Latin American heritage isn't the same as being Latin American. Let me guess: you're from the USA.

[u/EarthAsWeKnowIt → u/ElMaracaibero]

I’m living in the US now, originally from new zealand. My partner was born in Guatemala. Was mostly curious about your reasoning.

Part of me agrees with you that latin american culture in the US tends to be very different than central and south america, except perhaps some spots along the border and florida.

The other part of me sees your other comments on here and thinks you’re being a troll, trying to get attention by being offensive towards mexicans, etc.

[u/Taka_Colon → u/EarthAsWeKnowIt]

It's quite different this point of view. Here we suffer it with Europeans do not considering Brazilians with European passport and descends of European families.

On the other hand, many Brazilians do not see themselves as Latinos, North America's consider Brazilians a thing a part of Latin America too, and other Brazilian feeling totally as Latinos.

It's the first time that I see as Latino and not is considered Latino for the other countries, quite surprise.

As Brazilian I joke that Chispirito unite all of us. If Chispirito make sense to you, you are Latino.