. The Brazilians and their country . LATIN AMERICAN VIEW OF NO. AMERICANS 373 manners and tastes, he talks to them in their own lan-guage, and does business with them in their own particularly have shown the greatest adapta-bility. Throughout South America one finds many of thelarge business concerns owTied, controlled and managedby Germans, Italians and Englishmen who have, so tospeak, grown up with the country, and who are in loyalsympathy with the people of their adopted land. If in the future we expect to gain a goodly percentageof the foreign trade of Latin America, we should


. The Brazilians and their country . LATIN AMERICAN VIEW OF NO. AMERICANS 373 manners and tastes, he talks to them in their own lan-guage, and does business with them in their own particularly have shown the greatest adapta-bility. Throughout South America one finds many of thelarge business concerns owTied, controlled and managedby Germans, Italians and Englishmen who have, so tospeak, grown up with the country, and who are in loyalsympathy with the people of their adopted land. If in the future we expect to gain a goodly percentageof the foreign trade of Latin America, we should followthe example set by the other nations and thoroughly edu-cate our young men in the intricacies of foreign com-merce; and the business languages, Spanish and Portu-guese especially, with French if possible, should bepart of the curriculum of every school and college whichpretends to give young men a working business educa-tion. This will affect directly South American opinion. America has been greatly handicapped, especially atp


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