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I get that "Hispanic" is a bad term (hello Brazil, which has nothing to do with Spain or the Spanish language) and that Latino/Latina is gendered and that in re
by 908B64B197 5y ago
I get that "Hispanic" is a bad term (hello Brazil, which has nothing to do with Spain or the Spanish language) and that Latino/Latina is gendered and that in real conversation, when someone has origins in Southern America and is still in touch with that culture they'll eventually say something akin to "I'm Peruvian American" which gives me much more context (almost as if you couldn't reduce the culture and heritage of a whole continent to a single term).
But would the term "Latin" be acceptable. As in Latin-America?
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- leephillips 5y agoIt is acceptable, and a perfectly fine term, as far as it goes, as the OA says.
- dariusj18 5y agoLatin is fine, but the plural "Latins" is awkward Edit: Maybe it should be "Latini"
- anthk 5y ago> (hello Brazil, which has nothing to do with Spain or the Spanish language) Heh, that's good, because Portugal is part of "Hispania" since forever. Hispanic in proper terms it's related to Spain and Portugal, for any romance (Catalan, Castillian or Galician) or Basque spoken in the peninsula, not just to Spain and/or Castillian speakers. So Brazil is actually as Hispanic as Argentina. Blame Castille for appropiating themselves the term Hispania/Spain since the Middle Ages.
- 908B64B197 5y agoI didn't know that. Thanks!
- anthk 5y agohttps://wikiless.org/wiki/Hispania?lang=en https://wikiless.org/wiki/Hispania?lang=en EDIT: Also, from Camões: "Falai de castelhanos e de portugueses, porque espanhóis somos todos" Y'all talk of (the) Castillian and Portuguese (people), as we are all Spanish.