Tradition and modernity have always coexisted, even in Latin America
GK Chesterton had (nearly a century ago) an insight on the
coexistence* of tradition and modernity:
I believe what really happens in history is this: the old man is
always wrong; and the young people are always wrong about what is
wrong with him. The practical form it takes is this: that, while
the old man may stand by some stupid custom, the young man always
attacks it with some theory that turns out to be equally stupid.
-Dave
* if you believe this characterization to be a bit too facile, the
same writer admitted (in another context) that: "impartiality is a
pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance"
