The Spanish Legacy: Centralist Tradition
Economy
Internal: encomienda (entrust), repartimiento (share), hacienda (large landed-estates), debt-peonage (indentured servants)

External: mercantilism, extractive, dependent
The Politics
monarchy (absolute power), council of the Indies (America), vice-roy, Audencia, Geo-political units (governships, captain-generals), cabildo, checks balance: residencia & visitors
The Society
Religion: Catholic (secular, regular orders)
Family: extended based, superficially patriarchal, core matriarchal, "compadres & comadres"
Female symbolism: Virgin de Guadalupe, Malintzin, la llorona
Inferiority complex: men (machos) & women (ito comlex)

Conclusion: Centralistic, Nationalistics, Collective orientation
The English Legacy: A Decentralist Tradition
Politics: From Roman Law to Common Law:
  Magna Charta 125    Parliament 1300
  Civil War 1640s         Bill of rights 1689

Economy: The Capitalist Stat
Society:
1. Reformation to Protestants:
    Martin Luther, Henry VIII, Church of England,Puritans & 
    Separatists
2. The Nuclear Family
Conclusion:  Regionalistic & highly Individualistic:  decentralist tradition