is Aruba part of Latin America?

Question

I also wonder if people of Aruba are considered Hispanic or Latino?
My father is from Aruba and Venezuela and my mother is from USA.
Would I be Latino, Hispanic or ? Educated answers only please.
Oh yes my father speaks fluent.. English, Spanish, Dutch, French and Papiamento.(mixed dialect)Thanks for your input.

Answer 1

As a local, I'm the one that might actually give a "educated" answer. Aruba is NOT a part of Latin America. We are more Caucasian than Hispanics because most of our descendants are either from Spain or Europe or Venezuela I might say. But what i'm actually trying to explain is, after the course of so many 100s of years, we got our very own 'kind' of people (locals) we're definitely NOT Hispanics, our cultures are really different. The early indians were from venezuela, but in the course of decades, many people came from all over the world, from the caribbean, spain, africa, netherlands, and we all because a "race" you might say. If you look at us, we look i might say 72.5% Caucasian lol. But seriously we are definitley not hispanics, we look very different from them. SO, if your dad is from ARUBA your not hispanic. If your dad was born in Venezuela your HALF Hispanic :D



btw " latino " actually means if you were Born in a latin american country, Hispanic is a race, that doesnt really have to do with where you were born.



once again Aruba is Part of the Dutch Caribbean, Which is in the Caribbean which is north off the shore of Latin/South America.



bye bye!

Answer 2

I'm an Aruban who lived almost 23 years there.



I would say that 50% of aruban people have some latin blood. There may be a lot of locals who may be in denial of this, but appearance don't lie, Put an average Aruban in Venezuela or Colombia even, and they will appear the same.



But Aruba still is not a latino country, its nationality is Dutch, although mostly we do share the American/Latino and of course Aruban culture.



I'd say you would just be latin/aruban-american. Depends on where he was born.

Answer 3

Geographically, Aruba is considered part of the Caribbean which in itself is part of the Americas. It is not considered Latin American because Spanish is not an official language. As far as race goes, Latino is not a race. It is another word that has been used frequently in the US to describe Hispanics in general. "Latin" is actually a word to describe a group of people who speak the latin language. So for example, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese and Romanians would all be considered "Latin." I don t know what "Aruba Claude" is saying when he/she says Arubans are 72.5% caucasian. Aruba was originally inhabited by a tribe of Arawak natives. It was then colonized by Spain for over a century then taken over by the Dutch in the 1600 s. However, because of its extremely close distance to Venezuela, nowadays, you ll find Aruba to be a big melting pot of Spanish, Dutch, Venezuelans, African and Natives. So to answer your question, there is a possibility you could be hispanic. You ll just have to dig a little deeper and find out about your dads ancestry whether his family originated in Spain or not.

Answer 4

Puerto Rico is facet of Latin America. By definition, Latin American nations are the ones which were conquered via a nation whose language is descendant of Latin, the ones are the romance languages. Specifically, Spanish, French and Portuguese. Spanish is spoken in Puerto Rico in order that makes it facet of Latin America. That it has a political relation with the USA, does no longer difference the truth. And sure PR has additionally English as an legit language however the De facto language is Spanish that is spoken via each PRican. Making English co legit was once performed via a professional statehood governor to make it appear that PRicans additionally talk English as their mom tongue. English is just a moment language at quality.

Answer 5

You can see from the article below that Aruba is considered to be part of Latin America geographically, though it belongs to the Netherlands and neither the people or the language are related to "latin" heritage.

Answer 6

does it matter

Answer 7

it's half and half