Latin America: Portuguese or Spanish?

Convidado   Sat Jan 16, 2010 7:44 pm GMT
<< Brazil has latin culture . >>

Of course, in the sense of being Catholic, speaking a Romance language, and having had Paris and Rome as centers of high culture. But in the US and Hispanic America 'latino' means specifically the former Spanish colonies, and sometimes also Brazil. Brazilians don't deny having latin culture, they deny being latino.
Franco   Sat Jan 16, 2010 8:06 pm GMT
latino means a person from Latin America. Latin America:


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Latin_America_%28orthographic_projection%29.svg
Qwaggmireland   Sat Jan 16, 2010 8:23 pm GMT
Where dose Hisfrancolatinphone Quebec fit in to all this? Wasn't the sense of 'Latin American' a French Napoleonic thing?

I have always thought the firery, emotional, unhappy, insecure, French speaking population of Quebec would be better off in French Guiana rather than North America.

The Francophone imperial project of Quebec would of been so more suited and natural in South America. The French, Spanish and Portuguese could all grow olive oil and eat amphibian-meat together in brotherly Romance love.
Qwaggmireland   Sat Jan 16, 2010 8:25 pm GMT
Canada's Latin quarter - Quebec should be in Latin America.
rodriguez   Sat Jan 16, 2010 8:39 pm GMT
"latino means a person from Latin America. Latin America:


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Latin_America_%28orthographic_projection%29.svg"

this is funny cuz we also have latin europe, so i can say that all spanishs,frenchs,italian and romenians are latinos too,
this is stupid,say that brazil is in latin america doesnt means that the brazilians are latino.latin country means that an romance language is spoken here.
is like to say that the portuguese or turks are white only because they are in europe,europe land division is only an random division, while portuguese and turks keep not being white.
blanc   Sat Jan 16, 2010 8:43 pm GMT
stop trollin sambo.
Franco   Sat Jan 16, 2010 8:50 pm GMT
A person from a Spanish speaking country in America is Hispanic. "Latino" is a person from Latin America, no matter if he is Hispanophone or Lusophone,plain and simple. Obviously in USA they associate latino more to being a Spanish speaking person because there are more Spanish speaking people in USA than Portuguese, but also they associate more "latino" to being Mexican than to being Chilean for the same reason.
Convidado   Sat Jan 16, 2010 8:51 pm GMT
Use in the United States

The term "Latino" was officially adopted in 1997 by the United States Government in the ethnonym "Hispanic or Latino", which replaced the single term "Hispanic": "Because regional usage of the terms differs -- Hispanic is commonly used in the eastern portion of the United States, whereas Latino is commonly used in the western portion."[7]

U.S. official use of the term "Hispanic" has its origins in the 1970 census. The Census Bureau attempted to identify all Hispanics by use of the following criteria in sampled sets:[8]

* Spanish speakers and persons belonging to a household where Spanish was spoken
* Persons with Spanish heritage by birth location
* Persons who self-identify with Spanish ancestry or descent
[...]

Although as officially defined in the United States, "Latino" does not include Brazilian Americans,[5][6] and specifically refers to "Spanish culture or origin",[5][6] some of the dictionary definitions may include them and/or Brazilian people in general. Furthermore, Hispanic or Latino origin is, like race, a matter of self-identification in the US, and government and non-government questionnaires, including the census form,[10] usually contain a blank entry space wherein respondents can indicate a Spanish/Hispanic/Latino origin other than the few (Mexican, Puerto Rican, and Cuban) which are specified; However, Brazilian Americans are not included with Hispanics and Latinos in the government's population reports.[6][11]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latino
Convidado   Sat Jan 16, 2010 8:59 pm GMT
If you wanna piss a Brazilian off, call him latino and insist on speaking Spanish with him, because, you know, Paraguay, Bolivia, Brazil and those all these Spanish-speaking countries are all the same.
Qwaggmireland   Sat Jan 16, 2010 9:05 pm GMT
Latin America is Hispanophone, Francophone and Lusophone. Hispanfrancoluso end of.
Franco   Sat Jan 16, 2010 10:52 pm GMT
Quebec is not considered to be part of Latin America , but it's true that the Quebecers lately try to promote their idiosincrasy by calling themselves as " the northern latinos" . In my opinion culturally they are closer to their Anglo neighbors than to Latin America . One only needs to look at Montreal to realize it. This city is urbanistically undistinguishable from other big cities in USA.
correspondent   Sat Jan 16, 2010 10:54 pm GMT
The Quebecers are basically just Anglos who speak French as a kind of fad, a tourist attraction.
rodriguez   Sat Jan 16, 2010 11:12 pm GMT
no, quebecers are latinos too and should be placed next to bolivia,Paraguay, ,chile thse indigens countries and these people that I do not know if it is white or black.
L.A.   Sun Jan 17, 2010 12:23 am GMT
Chuta que eh zica!
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