What counts as Latin American?

Question

I am a little bit confused lately, because I see places like Martinique, Guadeloupe, and French Guiana being listed as Latin American countries. I used to think it was mainly Brazil, and all the Spanish speaking countries in the Americas. Just which countries in the Americas are considered Latin American?

Answer 1

Vía Wikipedia.

Latin America is not the same as SouthAmerica or any of the Americas... :-D - chileno, Sep 3, 2013

When you say, "Latin America" rather than "Americas". I agree. - rac1, Sep 19, 2013

Answer 2

I consider any country in the Americas to be Latin American if the dominate language is a Latin-based language and their culture has been greatly influenced by colonialism from Romance-speaking Europe (Latin Europe).

So if Quebec were to secede from Canada and become its own country I would call it a Latin American country.

(But I can't tell you if I know the proper definition =P)

Answer 3

The 4 common subregions in Latin America

I just thought it might be easier if you could see it. - rac1, Sep 19, 2013

Answer 4

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_America

Answer 5

America is a 4 language continent (officially, although there's a huge amount of native languages as well as minorities speaking dutch, german and italian). Neither of those define what it means to be latin american. Jamaica is a part of LA as well as Guadeloupe and Colombia. North America has a quite different background. English didn't build cities in Barbados as they did in Virgina (US) or in Canada (if they did). Central, Caribbean and South America are closer cases one to the other, so maybe that's why.

Personally, I love when you call us the "Americas", gives me this feeling of being so similar from Mexico to Argentina.

I agree. The Americas consists of North America, Central America, and South America as well their asassociated islands. - rac1, Sep 19, 2013

I realize that "Latin America" is a different story. - rac1, Sep 19, 2013

Answer 6

latin america