Jean Robert and everyone else; please people can we stop this...

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Jean Robert and everyone else; please people can we stop this argument.

The Latin in Latin America is not as complicated as all that...it is simply "Latin" from the "Latin language." In other words languages that HAVE LATIN AT THEIR ROOTS.

Hence (for petes sake) countries that speak French, Spanish, and Portuguese.

These happen to be the nations that colonized most of those territories that are south of north America, which today we call South America and the Caribbean.

There are some exceptions to this rule of countries.

One such example is Suriname (in South America), and Jamaica or Trinidad in the Caribbean (there are more/look them up).

Those countries were colonized by the British ...

English is not a Latin root language.

Sooooo, these countries are not part of Latin America.

It is not culture, it is not color, it is not complicated.

It is simply a language thing, and the language thing was used by the white man who decided that those areas that were part of the Latin language group should be called Latin America.

The issue is not that complex, so maybe we should stop trying to make it so.

Linda, August 14 2009, 3:21 PM

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