Post #580762 by tiki mick on Fri, Mar 18, 2011 8:23 AM

Self deleted because woof is correct, this is tempting me to veer off too close to politics, which never ends well. But as in regards to the definition of "latino", this is part of the wiki article:

"Although a large majority of Hispanic and Latino Americans have Spanish ancestry, most are not of direct (non–Latin American) Spanish descent; many are not primarily of Spanish descent; and some are not of Spanish descent at all. People whose ancestors or who themselves arrived in the United States directly from Spain are a tiny minority of the Hispanic or Latino population (see figures in this article), and there are Hispanic/Latino Americans who are primarily or entirely of European ancestries other than Spanish (e.g. Italian, German, Polish, Portuguese), and of Middle Eastern (e.g. Lebanese), Black, Amerindian/Native American, or East Asian/South Asian ancestries"

So according to this, I am a part of an ethic group that has an enonormous umbrella, containing many different races? I dissagree. I consider my self an American of European descent, and nothing else. At the least, according to wikipedia I constitute a very small part of the "latino" ethnic group.

[ Edited by: lucas vigor 2011-03-18 09:16 ]