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I saw a show where full-blooded Mayans who didn't speak Spanish were coming across the border and being called "Latinos"!
Most Mexicans could never claim to be Italian descendants or accepted by Latin Europeans as "one of them."
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I don’t think that is is dishonest to call a Mexican Latino, because of the origin of the term:
The adjective Latin has recently come into common use as a synonym for Hispanic, and this synonym gets its origin from the same source as the name of the language of the Romans, and through it, the child-languages of Latin.
In the Aeneid, the book that the Romans consider their greatest cultural legacy to the world, the Romans explained where the name "Latin" derives. The Aeneid was written by Publius Vergilius Maro.
The Romans believed that their people were descended from Aeneas, the son of Venus. Aeneas was also descended from Jupiter on his father’s side. Aeneas was a Trojan prince who, with his followers, fled Troy after it was sacked by the Greeks at the end of a ten-year war. The Greeks were able to get in by means of a trick. The Greeks built a wooden horse, and hid inside. Then they tricked the Trojans into bringing the horse into their city, as though it were an offering to the gods. When night fell, the Greek soldiers came out of the horse, opened the city gates, let the entire Greek army into the city, and sacked Troy. The cause of this war is said to have been when Helen, the queen of Sparta, decided to leave her husband for a younger man. The Iliad attributes the fall of Troy to a bad apple: the apple if Discord. The Aeneid does not give the gods as much emphasis in that version of the story, though.
After the war, the remnants of the Trojan people followed Aeneas for several years and through much suffering as he sought his destiny: a land called Hesperia. He did find Hesperia as his gods had promised. Of course, it wasn’t so easy to build his city. (That would have made for a boring book!) As it happened, Hesperia was inhabited by a people whose king was named Latinus.
Fom this king, Latinus, the people of Hesperia took their name: the Latins.
The Latin people did not want to give up Italy. Italy was their land, and they did not just hand their home over to Aeneas and his followers without a fight. At the end of the book there is an epic battle. In the treaty that the Roman gods made that ends the war, the Trojan people rule the world, but they keep the name of the people whom they conquered, and the culture of the Latins is allowed to continue for all time.
Latin is the name of the language that this new people, the Romans, spoke. Over many centuries after the fall of the Roman empire, the language split into several dialacts, which themselves developed into the child-languages of the mother-language Latin. These great languages which grew out of Latin are Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, and Romanian.
Of course, Hispanics themselves say Latino and Latina, rather than Latin, which is how adjectives work in their language. That beautiful language, Spanish, is itself a daughter (one of the five) of the mother language Latin, that same ancient language which Julius Caesar, Horace, Catullus, Vergil, and Cicero spoke. Latin America takes its name from the heritage of the Spanish language, which traces itself back over time to Rome.
About as dishonest as it is to refer to American Indians as Indians even though they are not hindu and do not speak the language.
People that come from Latin America are called Latino regardless of what language we speak.
Latin America comes from the fact that Romance languages derived from Latin, most notably Spanish and Portuguese, are widely spoken in Central and South America.
It’s just politics, it’s a way for corrupt politicians to brainwash people and lump them all together and get them to vote for who they want.
"I’m Mexican" not "Latino"
just so-doe’s not sound bad-In job applications they state RACE-Hispanic or latino-How about be HONEST
MEXICAN-if you are from Puetro rico is not Mexico-MEXICO IS MEXICO ONE mexico-One venseula-One Italy-one brazil-I won’t call someone LATIN..just ask..where u FROM-Salvador and Mexico=not same-they are not LATIN-differant cultues and languages..Make’s me mad..PPL say’ I’m HISPANIC-NOT Mexican–I just have REAL GOOD language skills..I refures to do survey asking what RACE-My race is not there..but in real life MEXICANS all over..lol
Hello,
The name Latino has evolved over the years to those, particularly of partial Spanish and Italian descent whose languages evolved from Latin, the language of Ancient Rome.
The label is honest in my opinion and is something to be proud of since the Romans were one of the big cradles of our Western civilization and to date has had the longest lasting empire in History.
Cheers,
Michael Kelly
Spanish is one of the romantic languagues tha comes from Latin. Plus Mexican are also born in Latin America ans also happen to speak “Spanish.”We just add the “o” at the end for male or an “a” for a female.