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Originally Posted by LatinCams
Spain are for sure not Latinos.
Only people from Latin America are Latinos.
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WRONG!
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Originally Posted by Why
if you want to get technical about it, depending on whose definition you use.
which would include a lot of southern European countries from Portugal to Romania. as some "latinos" under the western definition speak Portuguese, i wonder how that breaks down for them?
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the word "latino" comes from the region of LATIUM (Lazio) in Italy. The fact that people in USA uses the word in a wrong way doesn't mean it's correct, just that they don't have a clue about history, ethnography, geography and whatever you want to add. Just FYI, the only real, original "latinos" were Romans from Lazio. They also spoke a language named LATIN (go figure).
Thus, it's more accurate to say Madonna is latina than saying Jennifer Lopez is.
And believe me, I don't think of Ancient Rome when I see what you may call a "latino" nowadays! By Jupiter's cock!
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