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**celddiskend** · 03-25-2012, 11:47 AM

Some of you will be quick to claim he is Latino, but is he not Anglo? He was born in the USA, so that technically makes him Anglo, does it not? Just like y'all are saying that if you're born and raised in "Latin America", then you're automatically Latino, despite your ethnic background. So, why wouldn't the same apply to all Americans as Anglos?

Because the term Latino is by definition more inclusive than Anglo. Why it's so hard for you to grasp this? Anglo have never had the cultural republicanist meaning that the term Latino had when the French initially created it (at a time when the continent was certainly less mixed than now), so I don't see the reason for your attempting to equate the two.

03-25-2012, 11:47 AM	#25
celddiskend Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 460 Senior Member	Some of you will be quick to claim he is Latino, but is he not Anglo? He was born in the USA, so that technically makes him Anglo, does it not? Just like y'all are saying that if you're born and raised in "Latin America", then you're automatically Latino, despite your ethnic background. So, why wouldn't the same apply to all Americans as Anglos? Because the term Latino is by definition more inclusive than Anglo. Why it's so hard for you to grasp this? Anglo have never had the cultural republicanist meaning that the term Latino had when the French initially created it (at a time when the continent was certainly less mixed than now), so I don't see the reason for your attempting to equate the two.
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