{"id":18646,"date":"2022-04-13T10:02:06","date_gmt":"2022-04-13T14:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=18646"},"modified":"2022-04-13T20:10:05","modified_gmt":"2022-04-14T00:10:05","slug":"suriname-haiti-are-not-latin-american-countries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2022\/04\/13\/suriname-haiti-are-not-latin-american-countries\/","title":{"rendered":"Suriname &#038; Haiti are not Latin American countries."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/IMG_7888.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"603\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/IMG_7888.jpg\" alt=\"Suriname &amp; Haiti are not Latin American countries.\" class=\"wp-image-18637\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/IMG_7888.jpg 640w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/IMG_7888-300x283.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Suriname &amp; Haiti are not Latin American countries.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It depends on how you&#8217;re defining Latin America. The term was originally employed by the French in the mid-1800&#8217;s, to refer to romance-language colonies, so if you&#8217;re ruling out Suriname on the basis of their official language (Dutch), it would be strange to rule out Haiti on the basis of their official language (French). And if you rule out Suriname, you may as well also rule out Guyana (officially English, though many languages are spoken), or perhaps Belize (also officially English, though in practice Spanish and indigenous languages are more common).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It depends on how you&#8217;re defining Latin America. The term was originally employed by the French in the mid-1800&#8217;s, to refer to romance-language colonies, so if you&#8217;re ruling out Suriname on the basis of their official language (Dutch), it would be strange to rule out Haiti on the basis of their official language (French). And &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2022\/04\/13\/suriname-haiti-are-not-latin-american-countries\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Suriname &#038; Haiti are not Latin American countries.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18646"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18658,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18646\/revisions\/18658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}