 However, he also states that, while in general researchers consider that the "West" has three main components (European, North American and Latin American), in his view, Latin America has followed a different development path from Europe and North America.Although it is a scion of European (mainly Spanish and Portuguese) civilization, it also incorporates, to an extent, elements of indigenous American civilizations, absent from North America and Europe.It has had a corporatist and authoritarian culture that Europe had to a much lesser extent.