do you consider latinos as part of romance ethnicity and culture

[Stormer99]

Do you consider Native Canadians and Black Americans part of the Germanic culture? I noticed they often stick together too.

There are some people in Latin America of almost complete Spaniard descent but may be like 3% Indigenous. That's way different than say a Bolivian Indio.

[Carlito's Way]

Well no, rather a cultural one. But either way, I would never consider Dominicans, Bolivians, Guatemalans etc. to be the same "ethnicity" as a French or an Italian. It's outlandish.

A white Cuban, yes. An Italo-Portuguese Brazilian, yes.

white cubans culturally are no different from other cubans lol they eat the same food and listen to the same african influence music

[Sikeliot]

There are some people in Latin America of almost complete Spaniard descent but may be like 3% Indigenous. That's way different than say a Bolivian Indio.

Or a Dominican. I know a lot of Dominicans at school and I've never once felt any kinship (either ethnic nor cultural) with them, to me they're just black people who speak Spanish.

I'm not saying I don't respect them, just that I don't have any special feeling of kinship any more than I have to anyone else.

[Sikeliot]

white cubans culturally are no different from other cubans lol they eat the same food and listen to the same african influence music

Then no, they're not part of Romance culture. I consider Romance culture to be Latin European, and once you start bringing African and Indigenous elements into it, it becomes Latin American culture which is a new thing entirely, a New World creation.

[Carlito's Way]

Then no, they're not part of Romance culture. I consider Romance culture to be Latin European, and once you start bringing African and Indigenous elements into it, it becomes Latin American culture which is a new thing entirely, a New World creation.

all white latinos will be culturally influence by indigenous/african influences one way or another, because latin american dishes and music have native/african influence, whether its only a little or a lot, it still has it, even Argentina's tango is of African origin hahaha cant get no better than that

[blogen]

No.

[Sikeliot]

all white latinos will be culturally influence by indigenous/african influences one way or another, because latin american dishes and music have native/african influence, whether its only a little or a lot, it still has it, even Argentina's tango is of African origin hahaha cant get no better than that

So then no, Latinos are not of Romance ethnicity and culture, they're Latino/New World Spanish speakers/etc whatever you want to call it.

[Carlito's Way]

So then no, Latinos are not of Romance ethnicity and culture, they're Latino/New World Spanish speakers/etc whatever you want to call it.

correct

[blogen]

Then no, they're not part of Romance culture. I consider Romance culture to be Latin European, and once you start bringing African and Indigenous elements into it, it becomes Latin American culture which is a new thing entirely, a New World creation.

Yes, these cultures are the continuations of the preColumbian cultures with some European and African influence.

[Baluarte]

Well no, rather a cultural one. But either way, I would never consider Dominicans, Bolivians, Guatemalans etc. to be the same "ethnicity" as a French or an Italian. It's outlandish.

A white Cuban, yes. An Italo-Portuguese Brazilian, yes.

Ok, from a culturalist point of view I agree wholeheartedly with the first part of your post. They have different habits, cuisine, jargon/accent, family traditions. Specially Caribbean, Mesoamerican and Upper Andean regions have a very strong "native" (even if blacks aren't native to the Caribbean) component.

The question though is about the second part of your post.
White Cubans or 100% Euro Brazilians aren't necessarily the same as Latin Europeans. If they strongly identify with their nationality (as some Euro Latin Americans do), chances are they'll follow the same cultural trends of their mixed/native/black countrymen and progressivey distance themselves from their European origin.

It's a tough question, but I believe it's a matter of minority/majority:

The majority of people from Spanish America and Brazil tend to be extremely localist. Accents are extremely varied, dances, dress styles, cuisine vary greatly from country to country and even from region to region inside each country.

Most of the people I've met only care to identify with their country (Mexican/Cuban/Venezuelan/Colombian/Argentinian) without paying much attention to their origins.

A minority of people though, that usually fit a number of social markers: Access to higher education, habit of travelling to different countries (outside the continent even), social barrier between themselves and most common people, and yes, even tending to sport less visible amerindian/black admixture in their faces, may be deemed compatible with Latin Europe.


Personally I'm not really aware if I am or I am not "part of the Romance ethnicity and culture" as Gigolo asks. That's something that is best answered by other people and the way they see me, rather than by my own biased opinion.