false impression that there is such thing as a "pure culture" because in the end, even the most established and hegemonic civilization was once a chaotic set of villages was kneaded with time (and often, with the wars) in a custom omelette which later would become a nation.
The culture of Spain, the "mother country" of Latin American countries, is anything but the exception. For if we follow the connotation of affection (and almost reverential) term that we refer to Hispanics to the nation-empire erected in the Iberian Peninsula, it appears that, as a woman, this mother also call Spain was the daughter, granddaughter and great-granddaughter of other cultures not only preceded, but influenced in form of walking, singing and dancing (read their folklore) as, and here is the issue that concerns us and concerns us most, in their speech and writing, ie: your language.
Long before the birth of Spain as a nation, the Arab culture and is courting the Visigothic kingdoms which were different with very different idiosyncrasies. The Arab invasion in 711 AD brought not only the land north of Gibraltar new theological concepts and socio-political, but in the midst of what could be interpreted as a simple (and fierce) territorial struggle, is fertilized embryo would then the mother of all the Hispanic nations.
After eight centuries of violent transformation, the historical period known as the Reconquista ends with the capture of Granada and the end of the Moorish occupation, but the soul of Spain was marked, and arguably a quasi-genetic level, for eight hundred years of cultural fusion that is still evident with is recognized as "native" English culture.
And then I pose the question, although not in this paper it is answered: why only speak of mestizaje in Latin American peoples, when studying the combination of the African race, the European and the Indian? Having regard to the long period in which the Iberian Peninsula was more Arab than anything else Is not could say that Spain (and as mentioned, virtually every human culture) is the product of a "fusion" long before the Americas? one that seems to have preferred to keep hidden chests of history and homogeneous disguise, as the "White Creoles" kept the portrait of a family member or indigenous black afraid that would prejudice its "pure" cultural.
these paragraphs then I close my mind in our blood that is double, triple, and infinitely mixed, perhaps because mestizaje itself is stamped on every human town, but his delusions prevent them from blinding purity recognition. Because as I said at the start, no homeland other than the daughter and granddaughter of others which, though remote, leave your mark on it. And by hope for a future where cultures recognize their interdependence and pluralism, ended with a cry of hope and prayer that is the legacy of those men from dunes and carrying scimitars: I wish!
