3.3 | Religion, Society, and Intellect Latin America 3.3 | Religion, Society, and Intellect
Religion Hispanic regions are primarily Spanish Catholic Latino regions vary, but mostly Catholic Indigenous religions of the Andes In the Caribbean, there are African mixes Vodou religion: Haiti Spiritual interactions: Animistic paganism
Society Mostly urban: some 80% live in cities In South America High birth rates mean growing populations Movement of peoples Europeans to places like Argentina and Brazil Central Americans to the United States: Guatemala Social divide Poverty, sanitation, and crime Central America and mestizos Caribbean and mulattoes
Intellect Pyramids Calendars Agriculture Noteworthy Latino inventions Contraception (Mexico) Cell phone (Brazil) The pen (Hungarian immigrant in Argentina) Containing diseases like yellow fever (Cuba) Color TV (Mexico) Photographs (Brazil)