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Originally Posted by Crawford

Mexico is an Indigenous-Spanish culture; the U.S. (and Canada) is a primarily UK-derived culture. The U.S. story is one that unfortunately casts aside pre-European settlement (outside of large portions of the United States that was won or purchased from Mexico and Spain), so I would ascribe different timelines to cultural development. In Mexico, it definitely precedes colonization, and the vast majority of Mexicans have some degree of indigenous blood, and the food and cultural traditions, unlike in the U.S., all have indigenous antecedents.

I think in South America it's a little different, and somewhere between the U.S. and Mexico, depending on the level of indigenous background. Argentina, Chile and Uruguay would be most like U.S./Canada "clean slate" with "history" begun with European exploration.

I corrected that for you.