Ariel

Latin America should not imitate the United States because of their unitarianism tendencies. People lack spirit and art in the United States. Latin America needs to stray away from the United States tendencies so it can develop character and keep its spiritual basis. The united states is a danger that is posed because it is an ambiguous powerful nation this is seeking to build an empire of its own. Such success will have the countries of the south loose their quest for national identity because those countries will want to imitate the United States. The southern countries will not have their own culture because they will take in the United States culture instead. 

I think in a sense Rodó is right in what he says about imitation. “Civilisation, modernity and the nation are all defined by Europe” because a lot of Latin American influences were brought over from conquistadors that were from Europe. Also, before the conquistadors came over their was the ancient civilizations that had their own culture and their own way about doing things. I think that the people who came over from Europe and the natives came together and made their own twist on their own culture. Yes, their culture has a little bit of European influence but there is also the natives who added their own culture to make their country be set a part of Western civilizations.