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Originally Posted by vergax  The "problem" with labelling ethnicities is that, as you pointed in your andalusian example, almost the entire planet is mixed. But there are geopolitical and geographical separations. Therefore I would propose that we call ourselves from the country we are from, to begin with, and the planet to end with  .
Andalusians are part of Spain, so they are "latin" if we consider latin countries as a whole: Portugal, Spain, parts of France, parts of Switzerland (Ticino and Swiss-romande), Italy and Romania.
It is not about creating a fuzz about something we cannot possibly change, now. But I think locomiax is trying to point out that if most of a person's heritage (ethnic and cultural) is not from the european "latin" countries, then is not correct to autodenominate themselves "latin".
IMO:
-Latin should be left for history books to denominate the ancient people from the italian peninsula.
-Hispanic should be only for people from the geographical zone known in roman times as Hispaniae or whose heritage is in majority from there. |
I met this girl in Canada whose parents were both Spaniards, she was born in Spain and lived there for a while, but she couldn't speak Castillian to save her life...I believe I'm more of a Spaniard than she is, I've even gone to bullfighting events (it sucks, I wish I wouldn't have gone but whatever). I also believe that people have a right of calling themselves whatever they want...and as such, I will call myself a gooback, seeing that there's no word for myself except that one (sort-of), and as a Gooback I have a totally average penis which is uniform to all of those who are like me.
And if you're lucky I won't take yer jeeeeerrrbs!