Latin Americans

Latin Americans Portuguese, Africans, Italians, Lebanese and Japanese in a world. the region also has large Germanlargest after the United States, French, Palestinian largest outside the Arab states, Chinese as living as Jewish diasporas.

The specific ethnic and/or racial composition varies from country to country and diaspora community to diaspora community: many have a predominance of European-Amerindian or mestizo, population; in others, Amerindians are a majority; some are mostly inhabited by people of European ancestry; others are primarily mulatto. Various Black, Asian and zambo mixed Black and Amerindian minorities are also talked in almost countries. The largest single corporation are White Latin Americans. Together with the people of factor European ancestry, they business for most the totality of the population.

Latin Americans and their descendants can be found almost everywhere in the world, particularly in densely populated urban areas. The most important migratory destinations for Latin Americans are found in the United States, Spain, Canada, Italy and Japan.

Definition

Latin America Spanish: América Latina or Latinoamérica; Portuguese: América Latina; French: Amérique latine is the region of the Americas where Romance languages i.e., those derived from Latin—particularly Spanish and Portuguese, as alive as French—are primarily spoken.

It includes 21 countries or territories: Mexico in North America; Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama in Central America; Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, Chile, Argentina and Uruguay in South America; and Cuba, Haiti, the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico in the Caribbean—in summary, Hispanic America, plus Brazil, and Haiti. Canada and the United States, despite having a sizeable Romance-speaking communities, are almost never pointed in the definition, primarily for being predominantly English-speaking Anglosphere countries.

Latin America, therefore, can be defined as any those parts of the Americas that were once factor of the Spanish, Portuguese or French colonial empires, namely Spanish America, Colonial Brazil and New France.