>>212196526 (OP)Hard to tell because EU americanized and germanized Spain into an irrecongizable joke totally different from its essential historical former self. Your average Europeanist thinker from XX century totally despised Spanish culture and traditions, or what they called "sun, bullfight and flamenco".
Actually many of the bad trophes about Spain at the time are the same used used against South Americans today. That they are a society of rogues, liars and hypocrites, who camouflage all the bad things with jokes and comedy, that theie societies are a grotesque deformation of civilization, etc.
Things like these, which South Americans ironically brandish as part of their identity today, can be found abundantly in Antonio Machado, Valle-Inclán, Pio Baroja, and Ortega y Gasset.
So my verdict is that Spain today is more similar to the United States, because the nation itself has lost its cultural essence. Put a Spaniard from the 1960s in Spain today, and they wouldn't recognize it. They would see it more as a copy of the German colonies of the United States, such as Belgium, Holland, France, Germany, etc.
With the same customs (fast food, LGBT marches, music festivals, etc.), a woke progressive mentality, and wearing jeans and other clothes copied from North American textile companies.
Fifty years ago, it was much more similar to Latin America. And 100 years ago, Spain was so similar to South America that it was the favorite destination for Galician, Asturian, Basque, Andalusian emigrants, and refugees from the Civil War.
Manuel Azaña (leader of II Republic) was shocked when he went into exile in Mexico because the culture seemed so similar to him in every way, more than he expected. The architecture, the picaresque mindset of population (that doesn´t exist anymore here at all) the gastronomy, the customs, etc. And I guess that in Argentina, Chile, Cuba, Puerto Rico it was even stronger given there was non ending inmigration from Spain there into the 60s.