Why the hell are Haiti and Cuba threads FORCED to the Latin America forum?

[Mika]

I mean.. :wtf: DU's administrators need to understand simple geography for gawd's sake!



Hello?

[Xipe Totec]

1. Cuba is Latin American

Haiti is more iffi; if you consider French a Latin based language, I guess Haiti qualifies.

[AlphaCentauri]

2. some consider that latin america start at California all the way to the Antarctic

[Mika]

3. FYI

Caribbean countries
http://lanic.utexas.edu/region/caribbean/

Antigua and Barbuda
Aruba
Bahamas
Barbados
Cayman Islands
Cuba
Dominica
Dominican Republic
Grenada
Guadeloupe
Haiti
Jamaica
Martinique
Puerto Rico
St. Kitts and Nevis
St. Lucia
St. Vincent and the Grenadines
Trinidad and Tobago
Turks & Caicos Islands
Virgin Islands

[Texano78704]

4. Geographic

The term "Caribbean" is a geographic term. "Latin American" is more a cultural term that tends to be geographic in nature.

[dipsydoodle]

5. Its an example of plain old simple ignorance

which doubtless causes endless mirth over at Free Republic etc. x(

[malaise]

6. Should be Latin America and the Caribbean

although more than a few 'Caribbean' territories are not geographically in the Caribbean - Barbados, Guyana and Trinidad and Tobago.

It's all politics.

[Mika]

7. Yep.

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