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Confrontation of Cultures
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Why South America is also today called 'Latin America'? 

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South America today is also called ‘Latin America’. This is because of Spanish and Portuguese, two of the main languages of the continent, are part of the Latin family of languages. The inhabitants are mostly native European (called Creole), European, and African by origin. Most of them are Catholics. Their culture has many elements of native traditions mixed with European ones.

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