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.
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