Transculturation
Both readings took on the term transculturation to further describe it and to challenge how it is commonly used. Both readings were rather pessimistic to their approach of their term, and seemed to consider that the white European culture that the Spaniards brought to Latin America won out over the local, indigenous cultures. The readings argued that acculturation was not the correct term to use when describing the culture in Latin America, but that transculturation was a better representation of the cultural effects of the Spaniards arrival to the Americas. As Millington points out, the cultural phenomena occurring in Latin America cannot be completely described by transculturation. It seems an easy conclusion to reach that the cultural processes that took place in Latin America were more complex than any one word can summarize. More than anything Millington seems to be saying that people should be more critical of the processes that took place in Latin America; this is a job that ho...