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Originally Posted by vergax  I completely agree with you, Locomiax.
There are so many historical mistakes in labelling from things to regions to people that even if you try to call by its correct definition (Wikipedia is not enough of a source), it is by now, impossible.
The "Latin America" label was coined in the USA, I read.
So, of course, the mistakenly called "latinos" in the USA or the rest of the American continent, who know little history or cannot be bothered to change the mistake, continue the mistaken label.
A person who looks nothing like spanish and comes from the american continent should not be called "latin" or "spanish" just because speaks spanish or another romance or latin language.
Anyway, for this forum, it is rather inconsequential to speak about this. |
Geez, and what should I be called? zambo, criollo, mulato, mestizo, of course none of them would work because I'm tri-racial, so what should I call myself?...and let me ask you something, is someone from Madrid more latin than someone from Andalucia? taking into account that the Andalucian probably has darker skin because of the mixing with North-Africans that took place for 800 years, and maybe Roma people, so they are not white-white, just kinda white. Or an Andalucian is less latin than a white Argentinian whose only mix was Spanish and Italian?
And by the way lots of "latin south-americans" have more affinity to Spain because that was the only culture that was left, sure there may be pockets of West African and Amerindian culture (and more Amerindian in Bolivia, Peru, etc.) or at least Spanish and Portuguese culture is the vastly predominant one in Southamerica, even the music of my region comes from flamenco, because of the Andalucian conquistadores that came.
And locomiax, relax, it's just a damn word, I bet that the preoccupation of cataloging human beings "correctly" led to myths of superiority and inferiority amongst people, all people.