Also, some brazilians don't consider themselves "latino" but rather "latin" and they don't speak spanish they speak portugese (sp?)
Carrot Top is Scary He wins by himself Rocket River Carrot Top makes me understand people who are scared of Clowns
Thank you so For my education Latino Is NOT SPANIARDs and NOT BRAZILLIANS [I knew Brazillians don't speak Spanish but included because they are a part of Latin America . . or is Latin American just Central America?] While I see the term Latino alot I generally have no Idea what all it encompasses and what it doesn't Rocket River
You're on the money, but it's "AND" not "OR". Speak Spanish AND from Latin America. Cool stuff, RR. You knew that shiznit unlike most people who think "hey, you speak Spanish. You're LATINO!" PORTUGUESE. You're correct. Latinoamericano comes from colonies derived from the countries whose language was a Latin root (Vatican, anyone?). If there was an Italian colony, they'd be Latin, but not "Latino". Dude, this sh*t is confusing as it is. So are we saying that there aren't going to be any OREOS in the next SURVIVOR? What about ALBINOS? Would that NOT be confusing, or what? The Real Shady... that picture is NSFW, man... damn carpet matches the courtain... How did I see that? I don't know.
I don't claim to be a scholar on the subject but it seems alot of folx want to throw LATINO at everyone that speaks spanish . . I can honestly say that until this thread i never explored what it mean ENTIRELY beyond the cursory inferred meaning u hear all around I knew they spoke Portuguese because I read it in NEW MUTANTS Sunspot was from Brazil and he spoke Portuguese No Coconuts? Rocket RIver
Ya mean kinda like the wide varieties in black people from South Central, Mississippi, Jamaica, Nigeria (not to mention the large % of Latin Americans who are of African decent)?
Every time I see that Carrot Top picture, it takes 5 years off my life expectancy, damn you. And as someone else mentioned, this is Survivor. They'll split everyone up by race, play off the racial resentment any of the contestants might have for each other, work as hard as their corporate asses can to each group to hate all the others, and then they'll suddenly mix everyone up in the middle of the season. Textbook.
Rocket River, you mean the ones who LOOK Hispanic, but don't know an ounce of Spanish? Those coconuts? They're Hispanic, but it ain't their fault their parents didn't speak Spanish to them. This is different, however, since "Hispanics" that are coconuts are not a mix of anything... maybe if one parent is white, they may be mix... but not if both parents are Hispanic but never spoke Spanish. Latinoamericanos from African descendants are "Hispanics", according to most forms (see the choice "Black [not Hispanic]" on most forms). You are right, JuanValdez.
I beg to disagree with you, but people don't hate each other. Asians and Hispanics get along quite well. Most Asian businesses i encounter has Hispanic workers.
Are you actually trying to say that there are no asians or hispanics that have any kind of race-related resentment or hatred towards the others?
I saw the group mug shot of the contestants. Sure don't like there's a penny worth of hate among them unless they're forced by contract. An Asian guy and Latino woman alliance would be neat.
I'm not proposing that all these people are riotous bigots that will bludgeon each other to death, but whatever element of that exists in any of them will be encouraged by the show people, I'm sure.
