DBQ: Is New Holland part of Latin America?

I was searching about the history of the Republic of New Holland (Republik de Nieu Holand, in nieunederlands), a country from South America bordering the Amazonian Federation (my homeland) and Brazil. Like my country, it was originally a portuguese colony, but was conquered by the dutch in the 17th century, thus remaining until the Napoleonic Wars, when the it was turned into a british protectorate. Their language is a mixture of portuguese, dutch and english, but most of the population speaks english as second language and has mixed-portuguese ancestry. So, in your opinion, is New Holand a latin american country?
 

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I was searching about the history of the Republic of New Holland (Republik de Nieu Holand, in nieunederlands), a country from South America bordering the Amazonian Federation (my homeland) and Brazil. Like my country, it was originally a portuguese colony, but was conquered by the dutch in the 17th century, thus remaining until the Napoleonic Wars, when the it was turned into a british protectorate. Their language is a mixture of portuguese, dutch and english, but most of the population speaks english as second language and has mixed-portuguese ancestry. So, in your opinion, is New Holand a latin american country?
Yes, what else would it be? Though Latin American is a term that I'd not use that much, since no one can agree what it means anyway. Though the term Germano- American is even harder to really classify, so whatever. I just use North-, South- and West- American when I describe a Western hemisphere country. Easier that way.
 
Yes, what else would it be? Though Latin American is a term that I'd not use that much, since no one can agree what it means anyway. Though the term Germano- American is even harder to really classify, so whatever. I just use North-, South- and West- American when I describe a Western hemisphere country. Easier that way.

Latin American has ALWAYS meant, at least here in The United States, a country/group that traditional speaks an Iberian tounge as it's primary dialect. This explains why it can contain groups that are clearly highly diverse phenotypically; like Cubans and Afro-Amazonians, while leaving out much more closesly related groups in the purely ethnic sense like the Belize and alot of Amerindian groups. By that definition, New Holland wouldn't apply since it's Spainish and Portugese speaking rate is pretty low. Negerhollands is a far more common among the rural communities, while the Queen's English and Dutch fill out the coastal cities and educated classes. It's really only some of the recently emerging border towns that are seeing any real spread outside the middle class, and even that's only at a conversational level rather than full fluency
 
Yes, what else would it be? Though Latin American is a term that I'd not use that much, since no one can agree what it means anyway.
Latin American has ALWAYS meant, at least here in The United States, a country/group that traditional speaks an Iberian tounge as it's primary dialect. This explains why it can contain groups that are clearly highly diverse phenotypically; like Cubans and Afro-Amazonians, while leaving out much more closesly related groups in the purely ethnic sense like the Belize and alot of Amerindian groups. By that definition, New Holland wouldn't apply since it's Spainish and Portugese speaking rate is pretty low. Negerhollands is a far more common among the rural communities, while the Queen's English and Dutch fill out the coastal cities and educated classes. It's really only some of the recently emerging border towns that are seeing any real spread outside the middle class, and even that's only at a conversational level rather than full fluency
As FillyofDelphi said, New Holland does not have a large community of Portuguese speakers currently (nor of any Romance Language).
In addition, despite having a strong Portuguese substrate, the negerhollans is a germanic language. Documents from the beginning of the britsh protectorate already mentioned that a large part of the inhabitants of New Holland spoke "some strange dutch dialect, with lots of words that probably came from their old colonisers. There are very few written records written in this primitive form of the language, so we don't know many things about it.
Since the British Protectorate to nowadays, the language has become increasingly similar to English, to the point both languages have a high degree of intelligibility. This language had its existence recognized only in the beginning of the 20th century.
 
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