Frequently Answer Questions Latin America
Why Latin America?
From a strict cultural and linguistic perspective, it would include all countries and territories in the Americas where Romance languages — Spanish, Portuguese, French, and their creoles are spoken.
The most common view is that Latin America includes territories in the Americas where Spanish or Portuguese prevail: Mexico, most of Central America, South America and the Caribbean. The English-speaking countries of North and South America are not included in Latin America. Territories where other Romance languages such as French (e.g., Quebec in Canada) or Kreyol (e.g. Haiti, Martinique and Guadeloupe) predominate are frequently not considered to be part of Latin America from this perspective, despite the French origins of the concept. The former Dutch colonies Suriname, Netherlands Antilles and Aruba are not considered parts of Latin America, even though in the latter two, the predominantly Iberian-influenced language Papiamentu is spoken by the majority of the population.
Sometimes, particularly in the United States, the term Latin America is used to refer to all of the Americas south of the U.S., including countries such as Belize, Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana, Jamaica, Barbados and Suriname where non-Romance languages prevail [1]. Conversely, it is often used in Brazil and the Commonwealth Caribbean to designate the Spanish-speaking countries within this area, which are often known as Hispanic America.
Politically, Latin America is divided into 20 independent countries and several dependent territories. Spanish is predominant and an official language in most Latin American countries with the exception of Brazil, where Portuguese prevails, and Haiti, where Haitian Creole is the dominant language.
About of the latin people..
The population of Latin America is an amalgam of ancestries and ethnic groups. The composition varies from country to country. Some have a predominance of a mixed population, some have a high percentage of people of Amerindian origin, some are dominated by inhabitants of European origin and some populations are primarily of African origin. Most or all Latin American countries have Asian minorities.
In three countries the Amerindians make up the largest segment of the population: in Guatemala and Bolivia they represent a majority of over 50%, and in Peru they constitute a plurality of just under 50%. In the rest of the Region, most people with a Native American lineage are admixed with one or more other ethnic lineages.
Since the sixteenth century a large number of Iberian colonists left for Latin America: the Portuguese to Brazil and the Spaniards to the rest of the region. Intensive mixing between the Europeans and the Amerindians occurred (mostly in, and after, the 1800s) and their descendants, known as mestizos, make up the majority of the population in half of the Latin American countries: Colombia, Ecuador, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, and Venezuela. There's genetic evidence that Puerto Rico may have a mestizo majority as well.
Starting in the late sixteenth century, a large number of African slaves were brought to Latin America, the majority of whom were sent to the Caribbean and Brazil. Nowadays, African descendants make up the majority of the population in most Caribbean countries. Mixing between Africans and Amerindians also occurred and their descendants are known as Zambos, found primarily in Venezuela and Colombia. Many of the African slaves in Latin America mixed with the Europeans, and their descendants, known as Mulattoes, make up the majority of the population in some countries such as the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico and Cuba, and a large proportion of the populations of Brazil, Colombia, Venezuela, and Belize. Many Latin American countries also have a substantial "tri-ethnic" population, their ancestry being a mix of European, Amerindian, and African, most notably in Dominican Republic, Colombia, Puerto Rico, Venezuela, and Brazil.
Millions of European immigrants arrived in Latin America in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, with most of them settling in Argentina, Brazil, Venezuela, Colombia, Mexico, and Uruguay. The top five groups of European immigrants were Spaniards, Portuguese, Italians, Germans and Irish. The descendants of these immigrants and the descendants of Spanish and Portuguese colonial settlers together compose some 90% of the current white population. Some of the other groups are Poles, Lithuanians, Russians, Welsh, Ukrainians, French, Croatians and European Jews. More than two thirds of Latin America's entire white population resides in a continuous area of South America (except for Mexico) that consists of Argentina, southern Brazil, Mexico, Venezuela, Colombia, and Uruguay. (See Immigration to Argentina and Immigration to Brazil.)
In this same period, many immigrants came from the Middle-East and Asia, including Indians, Lebanese, Syrians, and, more recently, Koreans, Vietnamese, Chinese, and Japanese (mainly to Brazil). In the late nineteenth century, a small wave of Americans, mostly from the former Confederate States of the Southern U.S., settled in Brazil, and fewer across Latin America.
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