[Sca-cooks] odd

[Antonia]

On 21/02/2011 9:11 AM, lilinah at earthlink.net wrote:
>> Really weird, my cousins are tall, blond and have blue eyes, they 
>> have all
>> Italian passports, should they be classified as Latino since they speak
>> Italian and Spanish?
>>
>> Ana
>
> No. The term Latino has *nothing* to do with being a speaker of 
> languages of Roman Latin origin such as Italian and Spanish; otherwise 
> the French and Romanians would qualify, too, as well as speakers of 
> Romansh).

>
> Rather, your cousins qualify as Caucasian, [...]

Which is a strange term in itself, and not really used outside North 
America.



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Antonia di Benedetto Calvo

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