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Topic subjectyet Latinos (mostly Mexicans AFAIK) refer to ppl as Anglo
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12896745, yet Latinos (mostly Mexicans AFAIK) refer to ppl as Anglo
Posted by 40thStreetBlack, Wed Sep-16-15 01:01 AM
>>but they both come from Spain... originally...
>>
>
>I'm not anymore Spanish than you are English
>since America IS a former English colony

whether they are of English/Anglo-Saxon descent or not.


>Latin America as it's generally known is made up of the 20+
>former colonies of Spain in the Americas
>where it gets murky is whether to include countries such as
>Brazil and Haiti. It's a continuing debate amongst ourselves
>because their colonizers also spoke Latin/Romance languages
>(Spanish, French, Portuguese, Italian and Romanian all fall
>into the same language group.)

Nobody really considers Haiti as Latin American. Brazil generally is though.