• beta_tester@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    The meme is correct. OP is wrong. It can be genetics, becaus your parents were from there but it’s also a cultural thing, if you feel like it, you may be it. There’s noone stopping you from it.

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      OMB defines “Hispanic or Latino” as a person of Cuban, Mexican, Puerto Rican, South or Central American, or other Spanish culture or origin (also known as ethnicity).

      If your family isn’t Latino and you don’t have live in a Spanish culture, you’re not Latino. You’re certainly not Latino because you “love hard”.

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        1 year ago

        Hispanic is if you come from a country of spanish descent. Latino is if you come from a Latin American country. People from Brazil are latinos but not hispanic.

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          Brazil is pretty much the only exception though, in most cases both apply and as far as the census, etc it’s not worth breaking Brazil out into its own category.

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            The Dominican Republic speaks Spanish but is not part of latin America. If you count them as part of latin America then so is Haiti but they don’t speak Spanish. Cultures and languages are complicated.

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                Idk just trying to breakdown that definition that was provided because it’s lumping two cultures into one group kind of how some Americans will see all brown people as just mexicans. Why did you respond to me when I responded to some one else?

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        1 year ago

        So the definition of what “Latino” is comes from… the US institutions?

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          The person in the tweet is American so I used the American census definition. I’m pretty confident any reputable source doesn’t count “loving hard” as a valid reason to identify as Latino.

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            Obviously the “loving hard” part is dumb, but I hope you see the irony on posting this tweet and then citing for the definition of “Latino” a website from a US institution