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hispanidad
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hispanidad

Set of values and attitudes emphasizing the common bonds (blood, language, and culture) between Spain and Spanish-speaking nations.

It was championed by Mexican philosopher and educationalist José Vasconcelos (1881–1958) who stressed the significance to Latin America of Catholicism and the region's Hispanic past.



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6) Although Gracia acknowledges the crucial importance of the project of liberation in Latin America, he does not think that liberation should be considered as a constitutive element of Hispanicity, for the idea of liberation has not played the same key role everywhere in the Hispanic world and it is not clear that it will in the future.
The Spanish language suffers from an unaddressed image problem in this country, connected to Southwestern and urban impressions of Hispanicity that sink the language and culture in the grim border zones of Texas and California and in the ghettoes and elevators of metropolises.
I salute Richard Nixon," explains Richard Rodriguez, "the dark father of Hispanicity.
 
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