Editing Westernization (section)

===In the Americas and Oceania===
{{See also|North American frontier|Americanization}}[[File:Spaniard_and_Indian_Produce_a_Mestizo.jpg|thumb|The [[Mestizo|racial mixing]] of Spaniards and indigenous Latin Americans.]]
Due to the [[European colonization of the Americas|colonization of the Americas]] and [[Europeans in Oceania|Oceania]] by [[Europe]]ans, the cultural, ethnic, and linguistic make-up of the Americas and Oceania has been changed. This is most visible in settler colonies such as: [[Australia]] and [[New Zealand]] in Oceania, and the [[United States]], [[Canada]], [[Argentina]], [[Brazil]], [[Chile]], [[Costa Rica]], and [[Uruguay]] in the Americas, where the traditional [[indigenous peoples|indigenous population]] has been predominantly replaced demographically by non-indigenous settlers due to transmitted disease and conflict. This demographic takeover in settler countries has often resulted in the linguistic, social, and cultural marginalisation of indigenous people. Even in countries where large populations of indigenous people remain or the indigenous peoples have mixed ([[mestizo]]) considerably with European settlers, such as countries in Latin America and the Caribbean: [[Mexico]], [[Peru]], [[Panama]], [[Suriname]], [[Ecuador]], [[Bolivia]], [[Venezuela]], [[Belize]], [[Paraguay]], [[South Africa]], [[Colombia]], [[Guatemala]], [[Haiti]], [[Honduras]], [[Guyana]], [[El Salvador]], [[Jamaica]], [[Cuba]], or [[Nicaragua]], relative marginalisation still exists.

Latin America was shaped by Iberian culture, with local religious forms also mixing with Christian influences.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Carmagnani |first1=Marcello |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1ppz4m |title=The Other West: Latin America from Invasion to Globalization |last2=Frongia |first2=Rosanna M. Giammanco |date=2011 |publisher=University of California Press |isbn=978-0-520-24798-7 |edition=1 |jstor=10.1525/j.ctt1ppz4m }}</ref> In Mexico, indigenous people adopted writing alongside their traditional oral and pictorial forms of communication.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Gruzinski |first=Serge |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ed0BtAEACAAJ |title=The Conquest of Mexico: The Incorporation of Indian Societies Into the Western World, 16th-18th Centuries |date=1993 |publisher=Polity Press |isbn=978-0-7456-0873-0 |language=en}}</ref>