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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Charlaquin" data-source="post: 9743406" data-attributes="member: 6779196">Geologically, most of the Caribbean islands are on their own small tectonic plate, separate from both the North American and South American plate, which the southern part of Central America is also on. Some of them are on the North American plate though, so if you were going to connect it to one continent or the other, North America is probably the best bet. Geopolitically, there are something like 30 countries and territories within the Caribbean Islands, some of which are independent and others of which are under sovereignty of various other nations, including the US, UK, France, the Netherlands, Columbia, Venezuela, Mexico, and Honduras. That’s islands for you.Not generally. Most Americans are woefully ignorant of geopolitics and don’t even think about the Caribbean except in the context of pirate movies, and probably couldn’t even tell you where it is. Heck, I’m getting most of this information from a Wikipedia page I have open in another tab. Of the islands under US sovereignty, there’s the Virgin Islands, which a lot of Americans have probably heard of at some point but never think about, Puerto Rico which some Americans (myself included) think should be granted statehood but most probably think of as part of Mexico because it’s inhabited by brown people who speak Spanish, and Navasa Island which I had never heard of before and according to Wikipedia is uninhabited and also partly owned by Haiti.</blockquote>

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