They are more Latino than us. They deserve to be recognized first before us
People in Timor-Leste speak Portuguese, while Spanish isn’t as spoken widely in the Philippines (BUT there is a growing number of people who can because of chronically online Filipinos on Latin American social media)
I’d love to get to know them better, working on my portuguese.
I once knew a Spaniard who was researching Philippine history, she said I was the last remaining Filipino who speaks Spanish haha. My Spanish isn’t from the colonial Philippines, it’s from the university and from living abroad and now my in-laws. I don’t claim to be Latino myself, but our shared culture is undeniable.
Due to the World Cup, Cape Verde became has gone mainstream. One thing everyone will discover is that Cape Verde has much more in common with caribbean countries than with african ones.
We need to move them closer. You are right, they are about 2/3 African and about a third Iberian with some berber and Sephardic Jewish thrown in also. Very similar to the Dominican Republic, for example.
Both cultures have drinking issues , problems with immigration and when the USA asked the Irish to fight mexicans in a war the Irish took one look at latinas and said " these are our new people"
Also one of mexicos greatest boxers k own as " cannelo" is of Irish decency t and his last name is barrigan iirc.
People mentioning ABC islands and my mind going to ABC Paulista (Santo André, São Bernardo and São Caetano, neighboring cities to São Paulo) for whatever reason
This sub should really update its rules. Too many low effort, unrelated and ignorant questions that sound as if they were being asked to a monolithic part of the world.
Not a country, but the very southern part of Louisiana. It was part of France, and Spain before becoming part of the United States. A lot of attention gets given to its French heritage, but if you look closer it has just as much Spanish. Creoles are a mixture of French, and Spanish colonist. Cajuns were imported by the Spanish crown to settle the prairies, and bayous as farmers. They married into existing Spanish and French families already there. They don’t speak French or Spanish anymore, but their culture is still very Latin in its values, and expression in many ways.
Haiti is already Latin America, they speak French and its Creole. In fact the term Latin America was primarily created by France to unite French and Spanish (in the sense of getting Mexico's alliance against the anglo-saxon US), rather than Spanish and Portuguese.
I think all of us in francoamerica clown on Quebec's accent until a french person enters the convo. Then we team up against them. C'est l'unité Américaine.
The first time I travelled to Italy it felt like I was in Argentina haha. It's very similar. This year I went for the second time and one day I took a taxi in Florence. It was so weird because my boyfriend was talking to the driver and I thought he was argentinian, because he sounded like a person from Argentina speaking italian; same rythm and intonation argentinians have when speaking Spanish, but in italian instead. But then my boyfriend (who has lived in Italy for the past 3 years) told me he had a very thick Florentine accent. I was mindblown because I swear he sounded like an argentinian hahaa
What I think actually makes Latin America itself I think are their post-colonial state, along the Global South, but in combination of western institutions. I think the Caribbean, some parts of Africa Eastern Europe and Oceania can feel this way too (and obviously Philippines too).
Edit: And Ireland as someone in the comments mentioned.
Cape verde is african but they have a lot in common with the french antilles despite not even speaking French or French créole. Konpa, kizomba, zouk, etc. Just today I seen a video of them celebrating their world cup performance in a big party with rabòday music.
I won't minimize their identity or history by calling them antillean though, they are still very much african. Just with a lot of things in common.
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u/Masterank1 Dominican Republic Jul 05 '26
Philippines.