what is the differenc between latin america and western europe?
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Europe and latin America are not two homogenous blocs.\nEurope is also divided in a northern Germanic and protestant land and a southern latin and catholic land in the mediterranean lands.\n\nSo latin America has huges differences with northern Europe (economic, religious, racial, linguistically), but much less with southern Europe (same religion, similar languages and partly same ethnic composition) (but still differences of economic level and amerindian/african influences in Lat Am)
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Europeans seem to have their act together in a lot of ways. America lives in the dark ages. Just look at the Neanderthal who first answered this question.
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I would say Hispanic anything relating to Spain\nand Latin referring to all countries in Central and South America, which of course, also had their start with Spain to some degree.
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Well, the first reason was French Revolution. When the notice came to America most people said that it´s time to establish those principles in Latin America.\n\nAnd later, the Napoleon´s conquest of Spain.
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Eastern European countries have slavic backgrounds, whereas the Western European countries tend to have Germanic and Romantic backgrounds. Also, many eastern countries have weakened economies due to years of communist rule, whereas some of the strongest economies in the world are in Western Europe.
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The term 'the West' is relative to human history, NOT an actual marker, such as the Prime Meridian or the hemispheres.  The meaning has changed from time to time, but the term 'West' today can be most closes traced back to maps of the Old World, on which the American continents did not exists and most of what we would consider our common European ancestry (England, Spain, etc) would have been on the 'western' edge of the map.  The term stuck as these powers expanded due to the simularities in languge and culture between the powers and their colonies (AKA the United States).  During the Cold War, the term 'the West' took on new meaning to mean those countries literally on the West side of the Iron Curtain (again America, Western Europe) and those on the East (Russia, China).  Today, the 'Western world' consists of all countries whose institutions, technology, material comfort, market systems, common western European ancestry and overall customs, dress and tastes are sufficiently simular to be grouped together (often called 'Western civilization').
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It depends on whether you are refering to continents or geographic regions...\n\nThe continent of North America extends to the southern border of Panama. Central America is part of the North American continent.  \n\nThe South American continent starts from the north at the Columbia-Panama border.\n\nCentral America is a geographic region (not a continent) and extends from the souther border of Mexico to the southern border of Panama.
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South America. It's further east....
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South America, most of Central America, and the Caribbean
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It varies on different countries.
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Typically the word "western" is used to describe the difference between the wealthy and dominant societies from those who are subjugated economically, militarily by deliberate restraints placed on them by wealthier ones.\n\nA broader term might be that the western countries are descendants of the colonial powers and their legacies, by this definition Australia may be included [as a western country] as a colonial legacy and a relatively wealthy country.\n\nLatin american countries don't tend to fit into this category, although being colonial legacies they tend to have a low GDP and often sanctions placed on them by north america, whether it be by border controls or by trade embargoes. There is no firm definition of the west, but drawing from the various ideologies that are held you could say that they are not western, except in some circumstances. \n\nA firm definition of what western is does not exist so unfortunately there is no perfect answer.\n\nHowever, if you looking for a literal definition, you could say that Latin American couintries are western as they reside in the western hemisphere. Although I don't believe this was what was implied by the question.\n\nWikipedia has a decent article on the definitions of the western world:\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_countries
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Throughout the Western Hemisphere from the tip of South America to Canada. There are many in the western states of the US, and an isolated "subspecies" in Florida.
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Lots and lots of differences.  English is more formal, has more rules.  Western is more layed back, more in tune with the "cowboy" thought.  I prefer english because that's how I was taught.  I don't feel I'm safe in a western saddle because I can't hold on with my legs as well.  English has jumping and dressage, western has barrel racing and herding.  hope this helps a little!
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The 16th century is for Spain the "Golden Century", as the Spanish Empire was growing (Americas) and the country was rich thanks to America's gold and silver. Certainly the first power in Europe at the time, as Spain was ruling the Low Countries (Holland and Belgium now), +/- half of Italy, Austria (which means present Austria, Czech Republic, part of Hungary and Yugoslavia), parts of present France.\n\nHave a look at wikipedia, link below:
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south america, between chile, bolivia, paraguay, brazil, uruguay and the atlantic ocean.
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I really don't think that there is a lot of difference.  Soccer (futbol) is popular as much in Latin America in general as it is in Europe.  Latin America players play in the European leagues too.  I am from South America so I know how crazy we are about futbol.  Also have a lot of friends from Europe and I know they are too.  This is nothing like we see in the Unites States with sports as "American" Football or Basketball.  Soccer is the true global sport.
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Eastern, The prime meridian travel through western Europe.