Nicaraguan children in the isthmus of Rivas.
Many
people now living in Central America s pacific rowrancJs
are descended from the colonial admixture of loc¿lr
lndians and black slaves.
port and were subsec¡uently converred inro ní.
rtional symLrols of the...
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Nicaraguan children in the isthmus of Rivas.
Many
people now living in Central America s pacific rowrancJs
are descended from the colonial admixture of loc¿lr
lndians and black slaves.
port and were subsec¡uently converred inro ní.
rtional symLrols of the indepenclenr srares.
cri llo
ari nalism
was a rnajor fclrce i.
the
nrovement for political indeper-rclence fronr s¡rain,
but it scrrcely enrbraced the e¡rtire popularion.
The cilstas inritirtecl rhe cultr-rre of the criollo elire ;
the Indi¿lrs, on rhe orher hirncl, feit littlc or nc)
affinitv r,vith criollo culrure ¿rncl we re lirrgelv
ig.
ored in the const.
lction of the .
ati.
n-srares.
After i depe cle ce spa ish was ret¿rined ¿rs the
sole official languaee, carholicism ¿rs rhe clominiurt religion, throughout the isrhmus excepr in
the British colony of Belize.
Each srare acc|-rired
a fl^g and ¿rnrhem and fomented the cr.
rlr of
nationel heroes.
Social and polirical insrirurions
f llor,vecl Er.
rropean models; laws were ba
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