Talk:Latin America

Why is there so many info in this article?

Err, Latin america means countries colonized from Latin european countries and that speak latin based languages, it's the same thing as Anglo-America, countries that were colonized by england and that speak english, 70% of this artile has info that isn't nessesary, it's not like Latin america is a huge union organization of countries like the Commonwealth of nations for example, it's just term applied to countries colonized by latin europe, this article makes Latin America look like as if it was a union of countries or something, i went to anglo america article and all it has was a list of countries colonized by england, that speak english and some ethnic groups, the Latin America article info should be the same as the anglo america article, LATIN AMERICA IS NOT A UNION OF COUNTRIES, IT'S JUST A TERM APPLIED TO LATIN COLONIZED COUNTIRES.. if people want to know inffo about the countries of latin america all they have to do is just click the name of the countries that they want to see. Latin america is NOT a political map. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 189.4.149.16 (talk) 23:21, 21 December 2011 (UTC)

Moai pictures

I removed the Moais. Easter Island is in Polynesia, clearly not a part of the American contintent. It wouldn't make any sense to have a picture of them in the Latin America article, just like it would't make sense to have a picture of Guam in the North America article or a picture of French Guyana in the article about Europe. Discuss.

I'd like to see a signature after the initial message. I agree with the motion, but I think this could have been discussed before removing the pictures.150.203.220.151 (talk) 07:47, 26 November 2011 (UTC)

European Population 2

In the section "Absolute numbers", Absolute numbers means: How many people exactly? and calculating the percentage of the White population of Brazil, Mexico, Uruguay and Venezuela, the results are:

Brazil Population: 190,010,647 Percentage of White Population: 53.7% Total White Population: 102,035,717,439

Mexico Population: 108,700,891 Percentage of White Population: 15.5% Total White Population: 16,848,638,105

Venezuela Population: 26,023,528 Percentage of White Population: 21.0% Total White Population: 5,464,940,88

Uruguay Population: 3,460,607 Percentage of White Population: 94.5% Total White Population: 3,270,273,615

So, in the caucasians section reffering to absolute numbers (not to the percentage), the right order is the following; Brazil, Argentina, Mexico and Venezuela —Preceding unsigned comment added by Zoe0 (talk • contribs) 20:48, 7 October, 2008 (UTC)

Black Nicaraguans

This article is incorrect in that it states Nicaragua has 0% black people. This is not true, about 10% of Nicaragua's population is black, it has the most black people(in terms of numbers not percentages) of any Central American country.

Added new subsection: "The Return of Social Movements"

During the Spring semester of 2011, students at Vassar College added a new subsection called "The Return of Social Movements" under the 'History' section of this article. Cristian Opazo (talk) 20:23, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

Mexico and indigenous languages

If it is true that 9% of Mexicans speak an indigenous language that means there are likely more indigenous language speakers in Mexico than in any other Latin American country and I was trying to express this sentiment in my edit which got reverted. I have reverted back because what was there did not express this at all, and therefore gave an inaccurate picture of the reality. And these languages are widely spoken in parts of Mexico whose population is greater than that of entire countries, so please can we find a solution to this. Thanks, ♫ SqueakBox talk contribs 13:37, 24 December 2011 (UTC)

A language that around 9% of the population speak, cannot be characterized as "widely spoken". The same goes for the rough numbers. If only less than 10 millions out of a population of 113 millions speak it, that's hardly "widely spoken". Widely spoken can also be considered "weasel wording". AlexCovarrubias ^{( Talk? )} 19:34, 24 December 2011 (UTC)

Sounds like we should rewrite the paragraph then to avoid this word altogether. What I actually said is it is widely spoken in a part of Mexico, not Mexico as a whole. Thanks, ♫ SqueakBox talk contribs 17:59, 27 December 2011 (UTC)

Picture of Belize?

I think you would need to demonstrate that schoolchildren in a pic speak Spanish, the unstated in the caption comment that many Guatemalans live in Belize wont help our baffled readers when they see a pic from an English speaking country in this article. IMO its a bit insulting too, really (to latinos). Thanks, ♫ SqueakBox talk contribs 13:41, 24 December 2011 (UTC)

Why is Haiti considered to be a Latin American country and Canada isn't?

I know the division between Latin America and the so-called Anglo America is also political and not just, lets say cultural, but the Canadian province of Quebec is francophone and french is the only official language of the province itself. French is also co-official in Canada as a whole along with English, same as Haiti where French and Haitian Creole are both official languages. So my question is simple, what qualifies Haiti as a Latin American nation that eliminates Canada from being one???

This specific question seems to be covered in the "Etymology and definitions" section. Kuru (talk) 20:41, 28 January 2012 (UTC)

This is simply because only a part of Canada is french-speaking. As a whole, Canada is more a Anglo nation (80% of the population is Anglo), a former British colony, still part of the commonwealth (the quebecers have the portrait of queen Elisabeth on their coins!). French language has been recognised only quite recently in some areas of Canada only. While English will be understood in almost all parts of the country. The English colonisation has been enough important to left huge Anglo-saxon culture in all of Canada, Québec included: Montreal architecture and way of life still is more English than French (lot of victorian, georgian architectures); the city itself has a typically Anglo-saxon model more than a latin one.

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