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How is Houston in a separate tier from Los Angeles? Because it has 1% less Mexicans and 1% more Salvadoran?
I still think the total sum has to have some of an influence. 6% of Los Angeles' Hispanic population is much larger number of people than 7% of Houston's.
Yeah, but that 7% makes a larger impact in Houston due to the smaller population. Really, I think we're just splitting hairs arguing the diversity between LA and Houston. I'd put LA above Houston, but I'd also accept them as equal.
LA's Latino population is about the same as the south-western cities of the USA. They get alot of Mexicans and some Salvadoreans and Guatemalans, and not much else. The difference being that those SW cities also have an old-stock Tejano population unlike LA.
That's what I said. Haitians can technically be classified as Latinos. Like you said, to most folks Latino=Hispanic, and Hispanic=White, Mestizo, Amerindian, etc. And they classify most Afro-Latinos as just Hispanic, and not Black, even though they are Black and of African descent. Zoe Saldana is classified as Hispanic, as opposed to Afro-Hisapnic. If you say she's Black, you will be corrected. Hispanic is more racial, while Latino is more cultural or language related it seems. Latino=Latin derived.
Hispanic is NOT racial at all. Hispanic simply means coming from Spanish speaking places. Latino is a more broad term but it's used interchangeably with Hispanic to mean the same thing in the USA. In the USA it's simply a catch all term for Spanish speakers.
Just to make things more clear, a "Latino" in my poll is someone from a country in the Americas that has a Latin-derived language and culture. That will include all the Spanish speaking countries and Brazil, that's it. Haiti does not count as most people there can't even speak French.
Have you ever travelled to or been to Haiti before? French IS the official language of Haiti. Most Haitians do speak or at least understand French. Haitian French Creole is a French based Creole languages derived from and based heavily on French. Haiti is a Latin country. It's actually the first Latin American country. The term and concept of Latin Americana comes from Napoleon and the French.
Would you consider Canada to be Latino or Latin since French is an official language there and is widely spoken?
i consider haitians to be latino using the accepted definition. Its a latin american country with a latin influenced culture (france). It shares the same island as the dominican republic and no one ever asks if they are latino. I think most people believe that latino= hispanic and thats far from the truth.
I consider Haitians to be Latino using the accepted definition. Its a Latin American country with a Latin influenced culture (France). It shares the SAME island as the Dominican Republic and no one ever asks if they are latino. I think most people believe that latino= hispanic and thats far from the truth.
I'd say people typically include Brazilian in the definition as well, though it is used primarily to refer to Hispanics. It's a tricky identifier because some Latin Americans, particularly those of Amerindian origin, get offended at the term "Hispanic." I think in the U.S. some started using "Latino" as a "safer" term, but it gets more complicated.
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