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Bahamas and Bermuda are NOT part of Latin America. The Caribbean on the other hand, not all the nations of the Caribbean would be considered as being part of Latin America. Puerto Rico, which is also a U.S. Commonwealth and unincorparated U.S. territory, and Cuba, and the Dominican Republic, and Haiti definitely are part of Latin America.
One might even include Canada, especially The Quebec and Montreal area.
Martinique, Guadeloupe, and French Guiana which are also French overseas departments, would also qualify, French Saint Martin, Saint Barthelemy etc.
Some people even include the Papiamentu/o speaking areas of the Dutch Caribbean, like Aruba, Bonaire, and Curacao etc.
For a country where even italians aren't considered latinos...
It's obvious that most of Caribbean is Latin America.
In the US, being latino is a very strict term. And if you dont really look like a stereotype of Mexican people your latin Americanness is put into judgement! (that includes even Mexicans who look white or black and plenty do!)
HERE in Latin America (multicultural, multiracial society) where no one spends a minute thinking about being latino... it's obvious most people wouldn't even wonder if Bahamas is Latin American or not.
They're definitely not, although I think the term Latin America is too ambiguous. As it's been said here, people speak a Latin language in Haiti yet no one think of it as Latin America. I think it would be more accurate to speak of Spanish America, etc.
Bahamas and Bermuda are NOT part of Latin America. The Caribbean on the other hand, not all the nations of the Caribbean would be considered as being part of Latin America. Puerto Rico, which is also a U.S. Commonwealth and unincorparated U.S. territory, and Cuba, and the Dominican Republic, and Haiti definitely are part of Latin America.
One might even include Canada, especially The Quebec and Montreal area.
Martinique, Guadeloupe, and French Guiana which are also French overseas departments, would also qualify, French Saint Martin, Saint Barthelemy etc.
Some people even include the Papiamentu/o speaking areas of the Dutch Caribbean, like Aruba, Bonaire, and Curacao etc.
Papiamiento is a Creole language with a number of Portugese words, and because of their closeness to Venezuela (their media comes from there, I have been told by people from Aruba) many of them also speak and read Spanish.
No. Caribbean is another region.
It's debatable if we could include Cuba, Haiti, Dominican Republic, Dominica and the french overseas territories in Latin America for purely linguistic criteria, but they are best understood as another region. Parts of South America (Guyana, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago) are also more linked to the Caribbean than to Latin America. But Brazil is undisputedly part of Latin America.
All those islands in the Caribbean where they speak Latin languages are a part of Latin America.
The ABC islands are Latin American as they have extensive ties to Colombia, and Venezuela. They speak a language which can be understand in those neighboring countries, and most are fluent in Spanish.
Haitians speak French/Creole. Most don't speak Spanish. The Latin American nation which they are linked to, has an entire ideology of hatred directed at Haiti. And in fact Haitians don't seem interested in having much to do with Latin Americans, once they arrive in the USA.
Arguing that Haitians are Latin is as silly as claiming that Jamaicans are AngloSaxon.
Jamaica is a part of the Anglo Caribbean. Creole is in part based on French (a Latin language). Haitian religion is Catholic and African based.
Culturally Haitians have a lot more in common with the Spanish and Portuguese speaking countries, with their heavy Catholic and Latin influences than they do with the Anglo Caribbean (which has African based religion, but nowhere near the same amount of Catholicism).
Jamaica is a part of the Anglo Caribbean. Creole is in part based on French (a Latin language). Haitian religion is Catholic and African based.
Culturally Haitians have a lot more in common with the Spanish and Portuguese speaking countries, with their heavy Catholic and Latin influences than they do with the Anglo Caribbean (which has African based religion, but nowhere near the same amount of Catholicism).
That is not true, as it depends on the island. The Engish speaking Caribbean actually speaks more than English. Like Haiti, there are islands in the English-speaking Caribbean that speak Kreyol/French Patois - St. Lucia and Dominica - and, in those islands, Roman Catholicism is more prevalent than in Haiti.
The English-speaking Caribbean is far more than Jamaica, and Jamaica does not represent the rest of the islands culturally, religiously or in any other manner.
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