Abstract
The beginning of the twentieth century marked a time of modernization for the Latin American continent; however, only a minority of the population in Latin America benefited from social and economic aspects of this evolution. In Cuba and Brazil, the Creole mostly constituted this elite group. Europe largely shaped cultural models of Creole as they depicted the German, French, British or Spanish ideas. Aline Helg insists on the fact that, as social Darwinism, positivism and racial theories were quite widespread among the European elites, they also strongly attracted Hispanic American scholars. The Latin American population comprised different ethnic groups which included the whites, blacks, mulattos, Indians and the Mestizos.
