Several thoughts come to my mind.
Although in many threads I have used the term "Latin America", I do not agree with it at all. It is a concept invented to include Haiti, a former French colony (but curiously, Quebec is not included). The proper term would be Hispanic America or Ibero America (containing Brazil).
And besides, it is a completely heterogeneous region. We have already seen it in genetic studies: although the general population comes from a hybridization between Iberians, Amerindians and sub-Saharan Africans, there are some of these components that, when predominant, create different societies. In the specific case of my country, inhabited by hunter-gatherer tribes, the pre-Columbian population was scarce and with a primitive civilization. and the Spanish, before undertaking an intensive colonization, brought to our prairies cows and horses, which reproduced immensely, and changed the lives of the natives, who became hunting horsemen. And almost immediately began the miscegenation between Europeans and indigenous women, giving rise to a "race" of horsemen, the Gauchos. These were joined by escaped African slaves, and also Europeans of various origins (many of them pirates), abandoned on our Atlantic coasts.
Their lifestyle was a mixture of European, Amerindian and African characteristics, but the unifying element was fundamentally European. And after the second half of the 19th century, when Uruguay was already independent, there was a massive European immigration. This phenomenon was repeated above all in Argentina, Brazil, and to a lesser extent in other countries. This explains genetic compositions like mine: 79% European, 18% Native American, 3% sub-Saharan African. A recent study says that the composition of the average Uruguayan is very similar to mine, although obviously, there are people with predominantly African or Native American origin, or cases like my father's, ethnically 100% Italian (my paternal grandfather was Italian). In short: it surely does not apply to the entire region known as "Latin America", but at least the South is Western.