Another great example of USA producing "logical" thinkers. Like a few others have already said in this thread, what's wrong with you?
'Twas a cutlass swipe or an ounce of lead
Or a yawing hole in a battered head
And the scuppers clogged with rotting red
And there they lay I damn me eyes
All lookouts clapped on Paradise
All souls bound just contrarywise, yo ho ho and a bottle of rum!
Italy, France and Spain are often referred to as the Latin countries because their language is rooted in Latin.
We say "latinos" in the US because we were having problems coming up with a polite word for Mexicans and people similar to Mexicans. Currently we call the "Hispanics". "Hispanola" being what the Romans called Spain.
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"This will be a fight against overwhelming odds from which survival cannot be expected. We will do what damage we can."
-- Capt. Copeland
I spent some time there. It's a crazy place, where even the poorest indigenous people often spoke 5 languages. Spanish, Dutch, Portuguese, English, and Surinantongo (colloquially known as Taki Taki).
Taki Taki is bizarre because it essentially combines those other 4 languages, with a little Hindi in there too, but gets rid of all the hard to pronounce syllables. So it would be strange because I'd be listening to a toolbox meeting in Taki Taki, not understanding a word, then all of a sudden I'd hear a near full sentence in nearly understandable English. Or sometimes in nearly understandable Spanish. It's the most pidgin language I've ever heard.
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Most of the Latinos I know call themselves either by their actual country of origin, or Latinos. I've almost never heard them call themselves Hispanics.
'Twas a cutlass swipe or an ounce of lead
Or a yawing hole in a battered head
And the scuppers clogged with rotting red
And there they lay I damn me eyes
All lookouts clapped on Paradise
All souls bound just contrarywise, yo ho ho and a bottle of rum!
Mexico the Caribbean and Central American is what is considered Latin America if you cant trace your ancestry to here your not Latino.
'Twas a cutlass swipe or an ounce of lead
Or a yawing hole in a battered head
And the scuppers clogged with rotting red
And there they lay I damn me eyes
All lookouts clapped on Paradise
All souls bound just contrarywise, yo ho ho and a bottle of rum!
So, Spain and Portugal are also Latin American, cuz they are basically Eastern America. Korea, China, Japan, Vietnam etc are Western America.
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"This will be a fight against overwhelming odds from which survival cannot be expected. We will do what damage we can."
-- Capt. Copeland
I think we should stop coming up with lazy terms to group a bunch of people we think are Mexican.
Using a collective 'we' here.
Yeah in Mozambique, I met a bunch of people who spoke 3 or even 4 languages. Sometimes Portuguese, but a lot of the time it was the 3 or 4 local languages that were spoken all within a 10 mile radius of each other. Where I was, the most common languages were Swahili (we were on the northern border with Tanzania), Makonde, and Mwani, but there were several others. It's amazing how villages so close to one another spoke such entirely different languages, and how few people actually spoke the country's official language, Portuguese.
Also strange how Mozambique speaks Portuguese, but is part of the British Commonwealth of Nations.
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The girl I'm going out with tonight on our first date is named Lourdes and is obviously Latina, but I'm not sure where she's from. She said Spanish was her first language, but that she started learning English in Preschool, so I suppose it's possible she was born here, but who knows. She actually looks a lot like my Colombian step sister, so maybe she's Colombian.
'Twas a cutlass swipe or an ounce of lead
Or a yawing hole in a battered head
And the scuppers clogged with rotting red
And there they lay I damn me eyes
All lookouts clapped on Paradise
All souls bound just contrarywise, yo ho ho and a bottle of rum!