Samuel Huntington

Since it is very common in Brazil for any debate to come very late in the day, there is now a debate on whether Brazil is “Western” or not. Some great Brazilians, ahead of their time, such as Gilberto Freyre, Darcy Ribeiro, Sérgio Buarque de Holanda, Plínio Salgado, among others, considered it obvious that Brazil was part of a “Latin American” civilisation (I have already explained in another text why I rejected this term in favour of “Ibero-American”) and no other.