Dirius
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With due respect to your native homeland in Argentina and little bit of topic based on the title of this thread, I once read in this thread where you said that America Latino is every race who lived in south america. But as far as I understand about America Latino, they're all seems like "spanish speaking people", and we know that there are few country who are not speaking spanish in south america like Brazil or Suriname. I want to ask something becasue I'm not really familiar with the culture there, not being racist.
Now the question is are Brazilians or Suriname can be considered as America Latino despite not speaking spanish primarily? And also there is confusion in my understanding regarding Mexico's geograpical which is more in the North/Middle of America but they consider themself as Amreica Latino aswell, why?
"Latin" america comes from the conquests of both Spanish and Portuguese colonies in the region, because they speak languages with a root in latin (spanish, portuguese, french, etc.)- and are former colonies to european countries, with most citizens being of mixed european descent.
Its pretty much an old term europeans created to distinguish between people who were born in continental europe and in the colonies. To be honest we don't identify ourselves as "latino" or "hispanic", or in any other way rather than nationality.