This paper details the processes of globalization and modernization, which have emerged in the last two decades in Latin America. In particular, the outstanding effect of the cultural dominance of the global cultural affecting the cultures and education systems of Chile. Latin America has suffered the effects of the global culture process, which have been manifested as changes in the lifestyle of its various populations; the deterioration of its environmental conditions; and, the diversity and complexity of day to day existence of urban and rural localities; and, in the undervalue of its historical-cultural patrimony, and in the weakening of their identities.
