I’m sorry, emest. I really feel for you. Personally, I find Hispanic culture beautiful and fascinating. I used to work as an overnight manager at a McDonald’s and working with Hispanics from all across Latin America. I respect them deeply. I was even engaged to an El Salvadoran woman at one point.
I find it sad when other countries adopt EuroAmerican concepts and end up eroding their own beautiful cultures and traditions. I personally believe that each culture and tradition is beautiful and valuable in its own right and should be preserved from being wiped out by EuroAmerican influences and allowed to flourish and develop along the lines the members of that culture deem appropriate to their desires and conditions.
I love my fiancé’s Filipino culture. The more I learn, the more I love it.
As for the cult of Santa Muerte; I find it disturbing. It’s basically a cult centered on a personification of Death. I believe the Church in Mexico has spoken against it and rightly so. I think work has to be put in to stop it’s spread and it’s hopeful eradication.