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Quebec doesn't have much cultural exchange with other Latin-speaking American lands. They would feel much more at home in English-America than in any other Latin-speaking part of America.
Haitians also speak French and are mainly Catholic.
Voodoo exists in Spanish-speaking Caribbean countries as well.
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Arabs are comparable to Latin Americans in how they're united by a language across a wide geographical range and racial lines. But Arabs seem to identify as one ethnic group while Latin Americans seem to identify as more of a cultural-linguistic group. I think they're comparable in many ways but still different.
Amazighs (Berbers) are a separate case. I've always viewed the term "Amazigh" as more of a metaethnos similar to "Semitic" or "Slavic" while viewing their subgroups like Tuaregs or Kabyles as individual ethnic groups.
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It's surrounded by Anglo Americans, but they are part of the greater Latin world in terms of language, religion, etc. and a distinctive nation within Canada (as defined by Canada's federal house of Commons).
Most Haitians might have a grasp of French but the vehicular language is Haitian creole, which is a French-based language with loads of African influence through words and even grammar. Haitian creole is not even considered a Latin language. On the other hand, voodoo is common place in Haiti whereas syncretic religions are not all that common in Latin America, not to the same extent. Cuba, the one place where a similar syncretic religion is practised, is arguably one of the countries where Spanish heritage is most evident. Cultural differences between Haiti and Dominican Republic are huge let alone the rest of the region.
It'd be good to have Dominicans' saying in this. I know Dominican Republic and Haiti are worlds apart from a cultural standpoint.
Arab and Latin American are both linguistic terms. Bear in mind Arab is not an ethnicity either. You'd expect people on this forum to know this by now. I've got Levantine ancestry, not Arab.
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