Former British West Indies (BWI) colonies are in this group?
I'm wondering if anyone else thinks it odd that former British Colonies like Grenada, St. Vincent, Barbados, and Jamaica are in this group? People with deep roots on those islands would not consider themselves Latino (for the most part...always some exceptions) and would never think to explore this group.
Wouldn't it make more sense to have a group comprised of former British Caribbean islands, since genealogy and emigration happened between these islands much more regularly? For example, Antigua is not in this group -- so where does it belong? Same for British Virgin Islands.
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@Craigallyn You really have a good point. However, there is not enough activity to warrant them being in a separate group.
I searched "Countries of Latin America" and Encyclopedia Britannica shows the following:
list of countries in Latin America
Latin America is generally understood to consist of the entire continent of South America in addition to Mexico, Central America, and the islands of the Caribbean whose inhabitants speak a Romance language. The peoples of this large area shared the experience of conquest and colonization by the Spaniards and Portuguese from the late 15th through the 18th century as well as movements of independence from Spain and Portugal in the early 19th century. This is an alphabetically ordered list of countries in Latin America. (See also Central America; North America; South America; West Indies (the Caribbean); Latin American art; Latin American architecture; Latin American dance; Latin American economic system; Latin American literature; Latin American music.)
North and Central America
South America
- Argentina
- Bolivia
- Brazil
- Chile
- Colombia
- Ecuador
- French Guiana (département of France)
- Guyana
- Paraguay
- Peru
- Suriname
- Uruguay
- Venezuela
Caribbean
countries
dependencies and constituent entities
This article was most recently revised and updated by John M. Cunningham.
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