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> After the expansion of rome, that lost some value. Nowadays it just means: > > Hispanic - Spanish descent > (these others i don't know the form in english ) > Franco - French descent > Luso - Portuguese descent > Ítalo - Italian descent > > Latin ( the language ) is the anscestor to all the former, hence the term "Latin > America" was coined, seeing as it's not a political division ( last i checked ). > > Strictly speaking, everyone from a country whose language developed from Latin > is in fact Latin, but at least in the US, it seems the term Latin was aimed at > "Latin-Americans", wich are comprised by a majority of people from countries > with a history as spanish colonies, so in US culture, the term seems to have > locked mostly to spanish descent. > For that, i usually try to segregate myself from the "Latin" denomination, given > my total distaste for the spanish language. :-) > > Sorry for the history/geography lesson, i just woke up and am drinking a huge > cup of coffee. :-P > > > Gives us a kiss precious. >
Well French, Spanish, Portugese, Italian are all Romantic languages, meaning they are a spinoff of Latin. So in a way , you are Latino ;). I'm part Italian myself (1/4) but I don'ta speaka da language.
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