Should French-speaking America (Quebec, Haiti, Martinique, etc.) be considered Latin America?

[Sikeliot]

I say yes.

1) French is a Romance language, and France is part of Latin Europe
2) Some use the argument, well Haitians and people from Martinique are black so they're not Latin, they're African.. but you have blacks in many Latin American countries and last time I checked, Dominicans are black and Latin American..
3) With exception of Haiti, French America remains more true to its European (thus Latin) roots than places like Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, and Mexico where you find significant PreColumbian and/or African cultural influences.

[BeerBaron]

I say no, Quebec for all it's differences is still Canadian, as much as they may wish otherwise. Considering them South American doesn't even make sense location wise, it imo insults the french settlers that chose North America and made it their unique home and fought to keep it that way.

[Grumpy Cat]

I feel more kinship with Latin Americans than I do Anglos, so I voted yes.

[Psychonaut]

No. Language is subordinate to ancestry, IMHO, when constructing ethnonyms. The fact that someone happens to speak X language doesn't in and of itself make them X (e.g. Black Americans are not Germanic simply by virtue of speaking English).

[SwordoftheVistula]

No. 'Latin America' is synonymous with 'mestizo'. This is the mainstream view, though took me a while to figure out why since nobody likes to talk about race that directly.

[Eldritch]

Basically, I think this is a question that's up for the populations actually involved to decide, but intuitively the idea seems a bit odd.

Especially in the case of Haiti, which despite speaking a Romance language, is not a Latin, but rather an African ("African American", if you prefer) country. I can't imagine French Canadians wanting to be pigeonholed together with them.

[Lurker]

I voted yes. Latin America is not a synonym for South America, they are different concepts (cultural/linguistic x geographical). From a cultural/linguistic POV, Quebec is even more Latin than some Spanish American countries (Paraguay or Bolivia, where lots of people don't speak a Latin language).

[Psychonaut]

Latin America is not a synonym for South America, they are different concepts (cultural/linguistic x geographical).

Maybe not in Brazil, but in the US, Latin America explicitly equals everything South of the Rio Grande.

[SwordoftheVistula]

It's something with an already settled definition, for the most part. The only dispute is over which Caribbean islands are included:

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/latin+america

Latin America
 
–noun
the part of the American continents south of the United States in which spanish, Portuguese, or french is officially spoken.


Latin America

— n
those areas of America whose official languages are Spanish and Portuguese, derived from Latin: South America, Central America, Mexico, and certain islands in the Caribbean


Latin America

A term applied to all of the Spanish- or Portuguese-speaking nations south of the United States.

[Ibericus]

Yes, they are obviously latin. The same rules apply to everyone. If spanish-speakers are all latin, then so are French.