Latin Countries.

I am chilean and even though we share many things with the other countries of South America, we don´t feel we are one and the same. Our facial traits, the colour of our skins and the way we talk are different because there has been a lot of mixture in our lands but in none of it has been the same. I can even see the difference between a chilean from the north or from the south. And a few decades ago, when roads were not as good as they are now, the way of speaking was very diferent from north to south. We share some celebrations, but not all of them. Our cuisine is very different as it is different the way people from the north of the US cook as compared with the people from the south. I was truly amazed and awed at markets in Mexico because of the variety of fruits that I had never seen. Many words are different too. The Spanish of Mexico is very diferent from the Spanish from my country. I had to see a friend that had gone to live in Venezuela to know to what plants alluded Gabriel García Márquez in his book 100 years of solitude. Many veggies are named in each of our countries by it´s native name (and it is not the same natives) and many of the Spanish words we use have not been used in Spain for centuries . I don´t feel any particular attachment to Spain even though part of my family came from Spain maybe 100 years ago. Certainly I don´t feel any tie because of Spain having colonized our countries. But I feel we are blessed by being able to live in a place where many races mixed. Even if the mixture is different, there is a great genetic wealth.

im working online about an expo in central america right now.its gonna be in colombia. i think its the southern part of the latin countries?well im not sure.but im sure they do have lots of innovative technologies there.the expo is about technologies.anyway, i think people there are nice and kind. my client is from there, shes very nice and easy to get along with.

I have traveled to a number of countries abroad in different parts of the world. But, I have not been to any of the Latin countries yet. I know the people in the countries are culturally very rich, and very much close to one another. Geographically too, each country is very unique and scenic.

i have been to central america. it is true and a fact that they share similar language and part of history. spain colonized most of the continent, and thus, making spanish the dominant language in the countries. in central america, most of it has seen the proxy wars between superpowers, US and USSR. that history is still strong in the politics of each country, for example in nicaragua and el salvador. the good part and example of central america is costa rica which abolished its army in 1949. and the country is doing well economically.

Spain is beautiful and has some very nice customs. As far as who colonized their countries I think it was the Ibers, Romans, Greeks, and Carthagians? Arabs were in there someplace too. Sheep herders.

Hi Lore2009 I´m from México, and I have some Colombian friends, and I have travelled to Argentine where I also met Paraguaian people, and in college I had an Uruguaian teacher. And in a camp I also had another Uruguaian fellow. And my mother and I had an Peruan friend. We share similar events and celebrations, as well as some foods and language. But, we don´t learn too much about our fellow Latin countries. Some times it is not easy to distinguish between us just by looking at our faces, because there is a great variety of racial roots. It´s easier to distingish us by our languaje accent. Some people think that Spain wasn´t a great country to be colonized by. Some of us have our family roots on Spain, and we just see it as a far country. Other people travel to Spain and go living and studying to Spain. In their past our countries were colonized by native people as Mayas, Aztecs, Chichimecas. Blessings!... Dainy