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The next year, he upset indigenous Latin Americans by saying that their evangelisation was not the "imposition of a foreign culture" .

Respect-Asians and Latin Americans were more likely (49% and 47%) to say that wealth 'allows me to get respect from friends and family. '

Mr Obama has made a promising start in his quest to persuade Latin Americans that the United States is "a force for good" in the region.

But many Latin Americans prefer to see China's expanding ties to their region as an opportunity.

But Hugo Chavez had what most other Latin Americans leftists did not, oil.

right-hand man . . . Now the Latin Americans are on the other side of the seesaw, tilting towards the sky.

Many Latin Americans and their leaders sense that they have fallen off the US's radar while it focuses on fighting two overseas wars.

It has its roots in Cuba's son and mambo but was heavily influenced by American music and Latin Americans living in New York.

Tens of millions of Latin Americans have climbed out of poverty and joined a swelling lower-middle class.

More important, they convinced most Latin Americans that there were no strings attached to the Good Neighbor policy.

Are rich Latin Americans unusually fearful of the poor?

The North American style of expressing emotions is considered impulsive and wild by Asians but restrained and cold by Latin Americans.

And maybe it's their Spanish heritage, but sometimes, Latin Americans seem like the most joyful people in the world.

Brazilians are ranked the second coolest nationality in the Badoo poll and the coolest Latin Americans, ahead of Mexicans and Argentinians.

All of this is in marked contrast to the last recession in the region in 2001-02, which undermined Latin Americans' faith in democracy.

Manuela Saenz has captured the imagination of Latin Americans for generations.

Arabs and Latin Americans interact with others at closer distance than Americans.

Hence Latin Americans see American double standards clearly.

As Latin Americans can attest , rapid growth can still leave behind deep social scars .

North Americans tend to expect more physical distance between two speakers than do Latin Americans.

FOUR out of five Latin Americans live in cities, compared with fewer than half of Asians or Africans.

Miami is the natural gateway into America for Latin Americans.

For Latin Americans accustomed to decades of drug double standards, Prop 19 is more mind-bending smoke blowing in from the north.

Europeans and Latin Americans love the stuff, too.

But Latin Americans worry more about crime: 28% of respondents (and 61% in Venezuela) say this is the main problem in their country.

The main reason for Latin Americans to remain sanguine is that the threat from the outside world is different from the one in 2008.

Fortunately the Latin-Americans are now charting a far more independent course and it is paying-off big time for them.

That compares with 71% of Latin Americans and 61% of Asians.

For example, North Americans tend to expect more physical distance between two speakers than do Latin Americans.

As Latin Americans become less poor, they want better public services