That’s why culturally Canada is similar to the USA while Mexico (and the rest of Latin America) to Spain. One huge advantage of the European Union over India is the same Latin writing script everywhere except in Bulgaria and Greece. That’s not true for a Tamilian in Varanasi, he sees “भोजनालय” and even though he might be able to guess “bhojan -> food” and “aalaya -> house”, the Devanagari symbols are a bit too far apart from the Tamilian script to decipher.