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That's where you're wrong. Neither Brazilian's or Dominican Republican's are Latino unless they live in the U.S. Latino is a designation that is applied to people of Latin American descent that live in the U.S. There are no Latinos in Mexico or Peru or any central or Southern American country.
As for Hispanic, that's a term that is used to designate social class not nationality. When the term Hispanic is used it's usually to refer to people of Latin American descent living in the U.S. who are middle or upper class.
The more you know.
Hm, having spent more than a decade living in Central America, I would say that just about everybody I ever met there described themselves as Latino/Latina... Few claimed the distinction of being Mestizo. But never mind reality.
My sister-in-law, born and bred in the Dom. Rep. is quite convinced that she and all her family members are Latinos. Obviously, she must be wrong. Some of them have been to the US, so perhaps that's where they picked up their self-proclaimed identity.
BTW, the US Census Bureau uses the terms "Latino" and "Hispanic" interchangeably - and it has absolutely NOTHING to do with social class.
The word was "salsa" not tomatoes, corn, etc. Unless one considers tomatoes to be the same thing as spaghetti sauce that's a pretty much of a stretch. Salsa is a Mexican/Hispanic condiment and it mostly prevalent in the southwest not the entire country. It is a part of the Hispanic culture and doesn't represent mainstream America's cultural food.
Never mind that "salsa" is also the word for "sauce..."
The problem with the "hispanic is not mainstream America" crowd is that they grew up in an era where television was dominated by shows like Leave It to Beaver, and grew up in a 99.9% lily white suburb in the Midwest or the Northeast, with that 0.1% being an African-American family or two. Therefore, they think that they lived in the "mainstream" because almost all the people they grew up around also had white skin and ate similar food to them. Ask a black person who grew up in the city, who had diverse neighbors way before the white suburbanite ever did, what "mainstream America" is. I bet you their opinion will be different from a white American suburbanite's.
Never mind that "salsa" is also the word for "sauce..."
So what? Mexican salsa is not culturally mainstream America.
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So sad for you.
