foxdemon wrote:It is important to point out Latin America is Western. A lot of people forget that, in the English speaking world in particular.
Given the number of very conservative Muslims who have immigrated to Europe, it might not be a bad idea to start talking about moving historic Western art to South America for safe keeping. After all, we all know what conservative Muslims do with paints, statues and similar.
A matter worth mentioning is the current issues the USA is having with illegal immigration. Most of these immigrates are Mexican. There is not a big culture gap between Mexicans and Americans. Those immigrants aren't a threat to North America for this reason. Possibly North Americans don't really understand what the Europeans are facing?
I'm Uruguayan and I'm currently living in Brazil. Brazil holds a extensive and quite impressive collection of historic European books, art, Grammar. Most people either forget or don't even know Brazil was a Monarchy, in fact the only colony that became a Kingdom with a actual European King establishing a Kingdom, Rio de Janeiro was the only European capital outside of Europe for good 50 years. When Napoleon invaded Portugal the entire crown moved to Brazil, the court and Monarchs. Portugal was the first Nation-State in Europe, the first Template country. When Monarchs came to live in Brazil they brought with them over 70.000 books, the most important books of Portuguese crown are in Brazil not in Portugal. Brazilian King Dom Pedro I, married a German princess who became Queen of Brazil and with her arrived thousands of important books, arts, from the German-Austrian crown. The first hand of Italians arriving in Brazil were very rich, like the Germans they started immigrating to Brazil since the 16th century.
During WW2 even Japan send to Brazil lots of stuff, Brazil has the largest Japanese community outside of Japan, the largest German community outside of Germany, the largest Portuguese colony outside of Portugal, the second largest Italian and Spaniard community.
The Protuguese never destroyed monuments or libraries, is one of the big differences between English, Spanish and Portuguese colonization. The ancient Guarani statues are in Brazil while in the Spanish part of South America they were torn down.
In the 80' during the holy war in Lebanon, when Palestinian Muslims destroyed Lebanon, most Fenicians immigrated to Brazil and Argentina, and with them arrived yet another culture for them to put in museums. Fenicians are Catholics and today Brazil has over 3 millions of them in between refugees and their descend.
As strange as it is, Brazil is a "world's library" , a collector of European, Asian and Indigenous history, yet most Americans think the country is all about ass and carnaval.
Brazil and Argentina hold a lot of European culture not just in museums but in terms of actual costumes, historical buildings, palaces and most of all architecture.