why did none of the latin countries in America succeed like the english ones?
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Just to add to what everyone else is saying: because the Spanish had no intention of staying, but just getting in – converting as many as possible, and taking as much gold as possible – and getting out, you end up getting a really cool mix of native and Spanish culture, especially relative to the English colonies which, for all intents and purposes, imported their culture when they came.
I remember going to a museum in Lima and they had this beautiful painting of Mary standing in front of a shining sun, and the tour guide explained that this was a mixture of the Spanish religion and the Inca one that was already present. How cool is that! It obviously tragically came by the sword and there’s no excusing that, but the cultural differences that arose from the different colonization strategies are mind boggling to me.
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