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Its not that easy. "Hispanics" are a cultural group, they are not an ethnic group like the Anglo Saxons or Portuguese.
There are millions of hispanics who are either primarily of african descent, or near totally of african descent. That aside, none of the relatively few Angolans that I have met self identified as hispanic. Thus, I dont consider them hispanic either.
Anglo Saxons are in fact a cultural group. A loose connection of the people who live in northwestern Europe who aren't Nordic or Celtic. Germans, Dutch and the English are quite distinct, but would be considered Anglo Saxon.
According to this only 39% speak Portuguese as a mother tongue. Elsewhere it is suggested that another 32% speak it as a second language with the rest not being very competent.
So in fact most Angolans (over 60% speak a language other than Portuguese as their first language). Calling Angolans Lusophones is pure nonsense in this case.
According to this only 39% speak Portuguese as a mother tongue. Elsewhere it is suggested that another 32% speak it as a second language with the rest not being very competent.
So in fact most Angolans (over 60% speak a language other than Portuguese as their first language). Calling Angolans Lusophones is pure nonsense in this case.
What do people in Angola or Equatorial Guinea say?
Obviously different people have different thoughts on the matter, but you're speaking as the SOLE voice of everything Black in the world when you have no background on these matters.
Being a Guyanese immigrant in the US does not mean you know everything there is to know about Black people around the world, or how different groups of Black people identify.
Honestly if someone wants to know how people from Angola or Equatorial Guinea they would need to ask citizens from those countries and probably go to those countries.
CaribNY, on many countries your knowledge is extremely superficial as you just basically read Encyclopedia entries on them, and them jump up and down claiming expertise on places you've never been to, never lived in, and have no former academic background on.
What do people in Angola or Equatorial Guinea say?
Obviously different people have different thoughts on the matter, but you're speaking as the SOLE voice of on.
That they are Africans. Except for the small mulatto elites. Its only a bunch of people in the USA who want to make every one Lusophone or Hispanic.
Angola actually had to fight a very bloody war to win their independence for Portugal. They are in the same category of countries like Zimbabwe and Namibia. I will suggest to you that if most Angolans speak an African language as a first language and that many whose first language is Portuguese might also have familiarity with at least one African language, that these people are Africans. Like all Africans they have been greatly impacted by their colonial heritage but that doesn't detract from them being African.
In addition you don't offer any insights on this so why incite?
So in fact most Angolans (over 60% speak a language other than Portuguese as their first language). Calling Angolans Lusophones is pure nonsense in this case.
That's ridiculous. The majority of Angolans ONLY speak portuguese.
Angola is different. The Colonial language has become the first language there.
That's ridiculous. The majority of Angolans ONLY speak portuguese.
Angola is different. The Colonial language has become the first language there.
I used as a link a publication of the Angola government. It stated that only 40% speak it as the first language. This means two things.
1. 60% do NOT speak it as a first language.
2. Even the 40% who do speak it as a first language may well speak other language(s) depending on what region they are from.
Maybe your connect to the monolingual elites, but the GOVERNMENT of Angola suggests that to attribute monolingual Portuguese speech to Angolans isn't correct.
I used as a link a publication of the Angola government. It stated that only 40% speak it as the first language. This means two things.
1. 60% do NOT speak it as a first language.
2. Even the 40% who do speak it as a first language may well speak other language(s) depending on what region they are from.
Maybe your connect to the monolingual elites, but the GOVERNMENT of Angola suggests that to attribute monolingual Portuguese speech to Angolans isn't correct.
There are very few Africans who are monolingual.
Yes. There are so many dialects that the Portuguese language is used in Angola as a unifying vector. Same thing with French in Senegal or English in Ghana. Even if using a European language, Angolans are Bantu people with a Bantu culture. Including them in the same category with Mexicans or Salvadoreans makes no sense, since they have NOTHING in common, aside from speaking a language that isn't even sui generis in the first place. That Hispanic label should remain where it belongs, that is in the US and the spanish-speaking Americas.
I used as a link a publication of the Angola government. It stated that only 40% speak it as the first language. This means two things.
That's simply not the reality.
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Maybe your connect to the monolingual elites, but...
Portuguese is not an "elite" or exclusive upperclass language in Angola. It's the common language that the majority speak amongst themselves.
It's unrelated to class or education. Impoverished Angolan children speak Portuguese. That's how you can really tell that it's the native language there.
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There are very few Africans who are monolingual.
If they're multilingual, they're more likely to speak some English or French. The indigenous languages are dying, unfortunately.
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