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08-15-2009, 01:56 PM

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Originally Posted by bELyVIS View Post
Look, both you and Mercedesjin are looking for PC terms for races. You claim Latino is more correct than Hispanic. How can you truly call someone something when it isn't correct?

Latin America - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Here it says that Latin America includes Brazil. But anyone who knows Brazil knows that their culture and language are very different than the other countries included. How do you explain that? So calling someone Hispanic is technically more correct than Latino in most cases.
Unfortunately, you're attempting to redefine an entire country when the country itself defines itself a part of Latin America. That's kind of like saying that, "You might be American, but you don't speak English and are not white and don't have a house with a white picket fence. Therefore, you're not really American." There are many different experiences that create the USA. There are many different experiences that create Latin America.


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