This term has a long history and etymology, but to explain shortly and understandably, it refers to a region in the American continent in which romance languages are spoken as main/official languages.
Examples of romance languages spoken in Latin America include Spanish, Portuguese, Creole (from Haiti, French Guiana, Guadeloupe, etc.) and French.
All of these territories share a culture that has grown from imperialism and old traditions/societies, which shaped their current society, economy, politics, etc.
"Latin America", to pop culture, has become a synonim of "Ibero-America" (a region in America in which Spanish and/or Brazilian Portuguese is spoken), but this webring supports the etymologic meaning explained above as It advocates for culture diversity.
Because of that, we accept people from every territory as long as they share a connection with the "latinoamerican" culture/their own country origin culture
Yes!
It's a webring that aims to gather all the latinos (latinoamericans) around the web!
This webring appreciates our different cultures in a beautiful and unique way and wishes to give us a platform for connecting, getting to know about each other and sharing our individual charms to the world.
Interested in joining in? Well, read all the information first!
It's important to bring this up since It's an issue in many online communities; but at the same time, that's a hard question to answer. Every latino has a different perspective.
For me (the webring manager), a person is considered latinoamerican when born or raised in a ""latinoamerican context"".
For example, United States' Miami City has a relevant latinoamerican culture thanks to the arrive of many foreigners and Spanish is one of the most spoken languages there.
In that sense, even if the US is an english-speaking country, Miamian born or raised people CAN be "latinoamerican"
Based on that criteria, the webring will accept people who have some connection with this culture (even If they were not born or raised in a latinoamerican country), feel interested in learning and show respect to their roots!
I'm not who says who's latino and who's not and I don't live inside everyone's houses to see how ""latino"" they are, so in practice lots of people can join the ring regardless
This was just some clarification
(And, yeah, latinos who live in latinoamerican countries come first!)