AfroLatino previously said:

PEOPLE OF THE LATIN-AMERICAS, LET US GET ETHNICAL !!!
By Wilgëens "AfroLatino" Rosenberg.

1. What is your "definition" of the word Ethnicity?

2. What are the Romance Languages and why?

3. What makes a Country a "Latin-American" Country?

4. What are "All" the Latin-American Countries?

5. What is the "Ethnicity" of the people in all of the Latin-Americas?

6. Can you name the Americas and please name all the Countries which are part of the Americas?



BONUS QUESTION:
"What are the Countries in Latin-Americas that are considered to be Caribbean Nations and where have the words "Caribbean & West Indies" originated from, how do they have came about and why?"

5. What is the "Ethnicity" of the people in all of the Latin-Americas?

anthonyC previously said:


That all depends.
Most(not all) Dominicans are either Black or Mullato.

Most Mexicans are Indian(Feather in their head not dot on forehead)

I can't think of any country that doesn't have only one ethnicity.

Lautaro previously said:



My two cents:

1. Ethnicity is the set of characteristics that makes the difference between two human beings of the same race (i.e. phenotypical appearance) possible. For example, while the danes, the swedes, the germans and the norwegians may all belong to the white race, they have a set of cultural, linguistic, religious and behavioural traits separating them from one another.

2. The Romance Languages are the following: Aragonese, asturian, bergamasque, catalan, french, galician, italian, milanese (eastern lombard), catalan, french, galician, italian, milanese (western lombard), mirandese, neapolitan, occitan, piedmontese, portuguese, romanesco, romanian, romansh, sardinian, sicilian, spanish, venetian and walloon. They are called such because they are languages that have their common root on latin, the language of Ancient Rome. They have more than 700 million native speakers worldwide, mainly, in America, Europe, Africa and some other smaller, scattered regions worldwide.

3. From my point of view, what makes a country a Latin American one is the fact of not only having been colonized/occupied by an European country belonging to that linguistical family (such as Portugal, Spain or France), but also the fact of speaking one of their languages and having their administrative and justice system modeled after them, such as is the case with Haiti, which uses the same adminstrative and justice system of France (departments, arrondissements, etc.)

4. I classify Latin American countries as the ones speaking the languages of the european countries belonging to the latin family (Spain, France, Portugal, and Italy, in the case of Argentina and Uruguay), or have their administrative/justice system modeled after them. Although many scholars have questioned the nature of the term on recent years, given the fact that the majority of the population on this continent is racially different from the above mentioned countries. With the exception of Argentina, Chile, Uruguay and to some extent, Brazil, in all the countries of Latin America/the Caribbean, the white european population is in the minority. Despite the fact that all these countries find themselves at the south of the Bravo river, it's a mistake to classify all the countries at the south of this natural border as such, because one have to take into account the existence of the anglophone and dutch speaking countries (ex.: Belize, Jamaica, the British Caribbean, the Guyanas and the Dutch Caribbean).

5. Well, if one must classify them as such, they have to be classified as having a "latin" ethnicity (although I doubt that such a classification exist), because, despite the differences between the indigenous/african descended groups that comprise their body, they have a lot of things in common, such as language (spanish, french, portuguese, italian), religion (catholic), administrative and justice system (the french codes), etc.

6. This is an easy one: North America, which is more often than not erroneously called Anglo Saxon America, despite the fact that Mexico is part of this region, and the fact that there are a lot of ethnicities living in the USA and Canada.

Central America, which is formed by the following countries: Guatemala, Belize (formerly known as British Honduras), El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panamá.

The Caribbean, which is formed by the following: Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands (US and British), the British islands (Antigua, St. Christopher, Grenada, Dominica, Barbados, St. Lucia), the French islands (Martinique, Guadeloupe and St. Barthelemy), Trinidad and Tobago, Curacao.

South America, formed by: Colombia, Venezuela, the Guyanas (British, French and the Dutch Surinam), Ecuador, Brazil, Peru, Bolivia, Paraguay, Chile, Argentina and the Uruguay.

From the bonus question: The countries in the Caribbean that are considered Latin American are: Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Haiti and Puerto Rico (despite the fact of this island being a US administered territory). Martinique, Guadeloupe and St. Barthelemy are not included because they're French overseas provinces. The term West Indies was coined by the English and the Dutch in the XVII century in order to differentiate their colonies in the Western Hemisphere with the ones that they had on East Asia (or East Indies), and the term Caribbean came from the Caribs, the indigenous tribe that fought the most against the european invaders, which out of respect to their bravery decided to name the entire archipielago after them.

chillaxin201 previously said:


describe your Ethnicity AnthonyC..............

AfroLatino previously said:


However, I see you have Mexico as part of North America. I know Mexico is attached with North America, but is it not still considered a South Latin-American Country or what?