Editing Latinoamerica (section)

==Latin Cultura and whatnot==

From a racial point of view Latinoamerica is the result of the native survivors of the invasions and many groups of inmigrants from different parts of the world. The spaniards and portuguese, like the rest of the europeans, saw the natives as savages and pagans to be converted to catholicism and used as servants, but ultimately many of them formed their own families with the amerindians because, well, why not? It becomes hard to be a bigot with someone you share the bed and roof with. This fact accounts to why, unlike in North America, most of Latinoamerica's inhabitants have a great share of native blood. However, social structures formed by the conquerors and inherited by the nascent latinoamerican republics discriminated the majority of the population, ensuring up to quite recently that most of the money and political power stayed in hands of pure-blood europeans. Or at least that was on paper, in practice, aside from the higher echelons, if you were industrious and sly enough you could bribe the authorities so they overlook your native ancestors, and in many communities there weren't enough criollos (descendants of europeans) to run things.

Eventually the vision of native blood as inferior and something to be shamed of has been changing into a sign of pride and defiance, with people [[Luna Wolves|declaring in a challenging tone]] they are of indian ancestry and what-ya-gonna-do, although nowadays racism still exists ([[derp|both ways, as people of amerindian origins have their own prejudices and ideas against other racial groups]]), it has become highly discredited, with Latinoamerican nations having CEOs, generals and presidents of mixed, non-european inmigrant or native ascendancy, [[derp|often as incompetent and corrupt as their white european predecessors and counterparts]].

While often you only see europeans and natives in most representations of Latinoamerica the region actually has large populations of african and asian populations, which mixed too with the former groups, resulting in a panoplia of mixtures which would produce and embolia to any racial purist. Ultimately all of these groups added their own cultural components, usually in the form of gastronomical and musical expressions which have become essential to the identity of their adopted countries.

to be continued...