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 :::All Latin America is part of the ""Western civilization"". Race has nothing to do with Western civilization. All Latin America was colonized by European powers, and the bulk of Latin American culture came from these countries. Latin America does have non-European influences, as well as the United States also has a huge Black African cultural influence, what makes no difference at all, since the European culture predominated in all the countries of Americas. Latin American culture is directly descended from the culture from Ancient Rome, brought by the Spanish and Portuguese colonizers. That's why it is called Latin America (from Latin, the language spoken in Rome). Race is a minor detail to include a country as Western or not. And by all definitions, Latin America is Western, with roots in Latin European culture, while Northern America has roots in Germanic European culture. It's a matter of culture, not race. The fact that the Southern Cone has more Whites than the rest of Latin America does not make this region more or less ""Western"" than the rest of Latin America. They all have the same basic cultural roots, which is Iberian.   "