1. 3.3 | Religion, Society, and Intellect
Latin America
3.3 | Religion, Society, and Intellect

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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)