Since the breakup of Spain’s colonial empire between the late 1700s and the end of the Spanish-American War in 1898, Hispanics have looked back upon their Iberian cultural and family heritage with an ambivalence not easily understood by persons of Anglo-European or Germanic ancestry. After the events of 1492, Spain bequeathed to the diverse peoples who would eventually comprise the cultures and nations of the Western Hemisphere the Castilian language and a predominantly Roman Catholic religious affiliation.
Hispanic Cultural Identity and the Recovery of Lost Memory
Hispanic Cultural Identity and the Recovery of Lost Memory
Alberto Hernández
Abstract
Since the breakup of Spain’s colonial empire between the late 1700s and the end of the Spanish-American War in 1898, Hispanics have looked back upon their Iberian cultural and family heritage with an ambivalence not easily understood by persons of Anglo-European or Germanic ancestry.
After the events of 1492, Spain bequeathed to the diverse peoples who would eventually comprise the cultures and nations of the Western Hemisphere the Castilian language and a predominantly Roman Catholic religious affiliation.
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