• OpenStars@discuss.online
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      2 months ago

      Hey, my sincere apologies for my other reply. I had too much of Lemmy yesterday… after several DUMBASS replies trolling me (like putting words into my mouth, then ridiculing those straw man concepts - really though, I should have known better than to say that I like Mac OSX, even in a non-Linux, general-technology community, anywhere on the Fediverse, as that never fails to bring out the trolls from under the bridge… whenever will I learn!?:-P), I started to presume guilt everywhere I looked, and essentially unwittingly fed forward that negative behavior onto you, so again my apologies. This community I hope will remain better than that.

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        Thanks, I was going to let it go because I was sure you just misunderstood what I was saying, and honestly it isn’t worth arguing over. But I appreciate you following up.

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      Where are you seeing “Latin America” - wait for it - as a continent, on this graph?

      It is to the left of North America, and to the right of Africa, itself after Asia and Europe. In other words, that entire line is the list of continents.

      This is known as the “legend”, which is placed there in order to explain the coloration. e.g. all Latin American nations (consisting of only Brazil & Mexico in this map of only the “biggest countries”) are purple, b/c ‘Latin America’ is colored purple in the legend. And Asian countries are green, USA is red, Africa is orange, European ones are blue.

      Do you see “Latin America” anywhere else, other than the legend? I tried & tried but could not…

      So mystery solved I suppose.

      If you were joking, that was not clear to me.

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      I don’t think Brazil is even part of Latino America either because they speak Portuguese not Spanish. I could be very wrong though.

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        Portuguese is a romance language so it has Latin roots. Latino would still apply.

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          The romance language definition begs the question, are French-Canadians Latino?

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            I think it’s language and geography. French-canadians meet the first criterion but not the second.

          • I'm back on my BS 🤪@lemmy.autism.place
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            Latinoamérica is all Spanish, Portuguese, and French speaking countries in the Americas plus Puerto Rico. Quebec, Louisiana, and Miami are not part of Latinoamérica. Latinoamérican ethnicity is anyone whose culture comes from Latinoamérica. Examples:

            • People born in Miami aren’t Latino. However, if they were raised in a Latino family, then yes.

            • A person born in Puerto Rico to an Anglo-Saxon family that rarely if ever socialized with the local population wouldn’t be Latino.

            • A person born in Australia to Mexican parents and raised with Mexican culture would be Latino.

            • A person born in Mexico to an Australian family that acculturated and integrated to the local culture would be Latino.

            • A person born and raised in Spain as Spanish is not Latino.

            • French-Canadians are generally not considered Latino because they have been culturally isolated from Latinoamérica.

            • A person born in Ancient Rome would not have been Latino even if they spoke Latin.

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              It’s actually much simpler than that. Latino is just someone living in the US that is a descendent of someone from Latin America.

              The term might extend to people living in other countries other than the US by now, but the definition is similar.