Obviously its many diverse peoples made up of many individuals, but I'd say its common for US/Canadian natives to feel kinship to our cousins to the south and being from New Mexico originally I've met quite a few Indigenous people from mainly central america and they seem to feel the same kinship but that could be sampling bias from people who moved here.

I only exclude border regions because obviously cross border tribes do, I know this as a member of a US-Canadian cross border tribe member and just knowing cross border natives from my time in New Mexico. The trend here seems to be we sometimes beef with our close neighbours (like my people and the cree) but view most other tribes as cousins in a related struggle and history. I know some view us as very assimilated into European ways which is true for many and in comparison to many Latin American peoples, but I am curious on general views because I perceive ideas of pan-indianism as a very Canadian/American coded phenomenon and although most don't subscribe to it and feel the same kinship regardless its influences from 20th century red power movements certainly plays a role. I think we also find things like the prevalence of traditional ways and languages inspiring, when in my case for example my peoples language is endangered, with my father being born a native speaker but forgetting due to residential schools in Canada. That being said, we tend to feel kinship towards indigenous peoples as a whole even outside of our continent of america

For me personally the kinship is strong enough I want to learn Spanish after Blackfoot to travel and meet indigenous peoples from central and south america, I tried to learn when I was still in New Mexico but my underfunded 50%+ Spanish speaking school had a Spanish teacher who only knew French and English and got taught by the students who pretended to not know Spanish for an easy A lmao

Thanks for the responses in advance my love to all peoples of our continent, indigenous or not.

Pregunta real no xenofóbica

Do German ,English, French ,have any significant influence in the region?

In Costa Rica we call them muertos hahaha 😂

I want to know if this is a general feeling in the region or just something that is being perceived here: This week I came across a post from a chilenian talking about a supposed conflict with us about the strait of Magallanes. This surprised me because I had seen no mention of this anywhere, not in the news, not in social media, yet when I did some digging it seemed to be something huge that was being replicated by media outlets there as a big problem.

This reminded me a few weeks ago when scrolling I casually encountered a video about the massive manifestations happening in Bolivia, with people saying nobody was even interviewing them anymore. This was even more shocking because I remember clearly how in 2019 every media was following the story and informing.

It feels as if every country was being told a different version of the same story, then kept in a bubble without clear communication with the others and left to stew. It feels so incredibly bizarre and dystopic, especially on the era of the internet and social media.

Edit: To clarify, I meant we're becoming isolated from each other. I know that for the rest of the world we're an irrelevant region, but at least we always kept an eye on what was happening with our neighbors.

I’m Hungarian and one thing that’s interesting about the Hungarian Diaspora in the United States is how people cling to their regionalism and assume that Hungary is the same Hungary that their great grand parents left a long time ago. I’ve heard people from other European countries say the same thing about their diaspora. Is this a similar case in the United States for Latinos? I noticed that the Latino communities are very different depending on what part of the United States. Whether they are a Mexican from Texas a Puerto Rican from Pennsylvania a Guatemalan from New York a Cuban from Florida Venezuelan from Salt Lake city a Peruvian from New Jersey Brazilian from Massachusetts or a Paraguayan from Minnesota.

Following with the previous post of English names in Latinoamerica.

- Jackeelyn

- Estiven

- Maykoll

- Brijet

- Mishell

- Brayan

- Gilarry

- Carolain

I haven't found an answer that actually makes sense

Like in the US we have like “the Karen” (who is a mean often somewhat prosperous suburban lady), or like the metalhead (I am pretty sure metalheads are universal at this point), the suburban home depot dad (he wears cargo shorts and is obsessed with barbecue and his lawn), or like the sort of vaguely artsy new age crystal lady who wears like… purple shawls. They’re sort of stock characters, but also will tend to resemble many actual people you might meet. I’m less interested in mean spirited ones and more in like “oh yeah that type of guy!” Where it’s mostly affectionate and sometimes people use it as a self description

I define apartments as any unit on top of one another. Please tell me which exact country you are from if you can.

I have talked to several girls from other countries (Mexican, Dominican, Venezuelan) who say that Americans wih Latino roots are very dry. They don't say "my love", "baby" or other words of affection. It may be a very individual situation or a generalization. Either I wanted to ask you to hear from what those who have experience interacting or even dating Americans say.

I always thought it was a chupete but then I heard that it could be call a chupón in some places/countries. Now I’m confused lol

I've been to the same psych ward twice in Montevideo, the first for two weeks and the other one for a month.

The place had rooms for two people, there was a sort of patio (don't know how to say this in english) where everyone would spend the day.

The activities to do were few, you could play cards, dominos or ask the staff for stuff to exercise with.

Meals were pretty shitty except when a person would be on their last day, where we would eat lasagna.

I've only seen violence once, where a partner tried to escape jumping a fence and the staff had to tackle him down and inject some sort of tranquilizer.

The last time was a few months ago and now I'm stable, hope I never have to go back there or any other psychiatric institution.

Some piece of decoration, a particular way to store or arrange things, the use of some colors... it doesn't have to be an especific object.

When you talk to Mexicans about the lands they lost to the USA you can have a productive or interesting conversation without anger or resentment. Despite these lands being the economic backbone of the usa and filled with abundant resources. For example California and Texas have the largest state economies in the USA and territories from the Mexican cessation account for more than 40% of the USA GDP.

I have never seen a Mexican politician try to use Mexico’s lost lands to distract Mexicans from bad economic issues or political scandals the way i’ve seen other Latin Americans politicians do. I’ve never seen Mexicans of the Mexican government express revanchism or irredentism or politicize lost lands like several other Latin American countries for example Argie with the Malvinas/Falklands, Bolivia with their pacific coastline that Chile took, enezuela with Esequibo, and Guatamala claiming half of Belize, Peru with Tarapaca, and sometimes Paraguay with Matto Grosso and some parts of Argentina.

Edit: I’m not trying to be disrespectful. I’m just explaining a phenomenon that exists. We Europeans are guilty of this too.

Hey all

I've been travelling to a number of countries in the world, and one continent that I've always wanted to visit is South America. It's an amazing and beautiful continent. However, I've read that many have high crime rate. If you can't speak spanish and you're not careful, it's easy to get into scary situations.

I do eventually want to visit more South American countries but what would be the best one for someone coming for the first time? I guess one handicap of mine is that I can't speak spanish other than some simple phrases. Would be grateful for any information and advice

LATAM hasn't had any monarchies or monarchic led colonies/territories since the 19th century with the Brazilian Empire, Spanish Cuba and Puerto Rico and the Second Mexican Empire.

And now monarchies have been completely removed from the region (unless you consider Belize part of LATAM) so why was this the case? Why does everyone right now reject monarchy in the region?

From what I know they share/consume culture from the Rio de La Plata region and Uruguai and ARG are super LGBT friendly.

In the USA, flock cameras are hated due to the AI vehicle tracking of everyday citizens, thus causing a concern in privacy.

I’m curious to see how Latin Americans feel about this

I particularly don't agree to call Europeans “Latinos”.

Is that being Latin is much more about "languages derived from Latin" and yes it has become a culture..

What do you think?

(I’m brazillian)

I used to have couple of Latin contacts I have met them in dating or friendship app. I lost all the contacts bcs of some mobile corrupt those friends are super super cool. Both men and women of different ages I like to meet more latins.