One of the issues that has come to fore recently especially in
Latin America is what is a "Latin" traditional definitions in
the literary world have grouped all the Romance Language
Literatures (Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Romanian &
Catalan) into one Culture zone because of cultural similarities,
Catholicism, origins in Roman Civilization et cetera. But of
late the term Latin has restricted to Spanish Speakers and this
has caused me to ask some questions. We in the USA tend to look
at Latin America through the prism of Mexico because Mexicans
are our largest Latin American ethnic group but one of the facts
about Latin America that is ignored by many is the intense
cultural exchange between Latin American writers in Spanish and
Portuguese and all of Latin Europe, France, Italy, Spain and
Portugal and also with Latin speaking Africa as well through
Brazil. Another part of this is the fact that in South America,
especially Brazil, Chile, Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay the
influence of Europe on the l