Do you guys consider brazilians as latinos?

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1. I consider people whatever they want to be considered, and don’t worry much outside of that.

   Have a strong personal distaste of labels so I avoid them when possible.

2. Yes, we consider you Latinos.

3. I don’t know if I’ve ever considered it. I guess I probably would not because of the language but really I couldn’t tell you a lot of cultural variations between most South American countries since I’ve not made it that far enough south to experience it.

4. Generally, yeah. I consider Brazil part of Latin America. Portuguese is a Latin-derived language.

5. Yes. We consider you latino since your country was founded by the Portugese who speak a latin language.

   We obviously don’t consider you Hispanic like the rest of South America though.

6. Latino yes, Hispanic no

7. You’re part of Latin America so yeah, I consider Brazilians Latin Americans.

   I also consider Latin America to be part of the Western World.

8. Did you know the French invented the word Latino to justify their intervention in Latin American affairs in the 19th century? But it think it survived because of Brazil. Otherwise we would just use the word Hispanic. Brazilians definitely are not Hispanic.

9. Yes

10. So, yes, we consider you Latino, as part of Latin America. We also consider you Brazilian. They aren’t mutually exclusive for us. If we’re referring generally to people from Latin America, including people from Brazil and other Latin American countries, we’d consider all of you Latino. If we’re just talking about Brazil, we’d just say Brazilians.

    As an example: we’re Americans. We’re also North Americans. If you want to talk broadly about all of the countries in North America, it’d be totally acceptable to call us North Americans. If you’re talking exclusively about people from the United States, you’d call us Americans.

    As for your edit: yeah, I’d consider Latin America as part of the “West”. There isn’t really a firm definition, it seems to vary based on who is talking.

11. Honestly, never really thought about it. Contrary to others here. Yea, I’d consider Brazilians Latino and Hispanic. But I guess when thinking deeper I get why not Hispanic. Hmmmm

12. Easy answer? Yes. Colonised by Portugal makes you technically part of latin america i believe. However, i tend to see most of the larger south american countries as having a more individual prominence and its the smaller central american one typically “lumped together” and broadly refered to as latin america.

13. Yes, of course, but, to tell you the truth, we use that word most often to refer to an important group of Americans here in the USA, or at least North America.

    If wmrefer to South Americans, especially those not on the Caribbean but far down in the Southern Hemisphere where people are quite different than we’re used to thinking of as Latinos, we might specify. Especially Brazil as they don’t speak Spanish and are a different mix of races, so the word isn’t really very useful.

    But yes, they are all Latinos.

14. I just consider them Brazilian

15. My neighbor and her family are from Brazil but I never really thought about it. I’m not sure if I’m able to tell the difference between Hispanic and Latino so I usually just go with nationality. Luckily in Houston people are ready to tell you either face to face or they hang a flag on their rear view mirror. I know the flags. 🇧🇷

16. Yes they are Latinos yet they are not Hispanics according to the census. The whole description of people from Latin America issue comes down to the fact that the census bureau was asked in the 70s to come up with a way to classify largely Mexican Americans to acknowledge that they were not considered white despite having previously been classified as such.

    In terms of being Western, sort of, like Russia/historically eastern Europe/the Philippines its split between being west and being its own thing. I mean decent chunk of Latin America defines itself as not European very strongly while Argentina’s president made some statement along the lines that “Brazilians and Mexicans came from the jungle while we came on ships” and he’s probably not the only one.

17. Uh yes

18. Yes.

    They are from a former European Colony in the Americas whose primary language is a Romance Language and thus descended from Latin. Haiti is also Latino and they speak French. Quebec should they gain independence would also technically be Latino.

19. I used to, kinda, but then I worked with as Brazilian guy (older, early 60’s) and when he identified himself as white I had to do a reevaluation. I knew Brazilians spoke Portuguese, and therefore were not Spanish and therefore not “Latin”, but I didn’t consider them white. So I kinda lumped them in with Latinos. Obviously race is a social construct and all that, but after our interaction I came to understand how Brazilians like my coworker saw themselves as closer to Europeans (who are, by and large, considered white) and it made sense.

20. Hasn’t really thought about it, bit I guess it would be Latino-ish. Basically the Portuguese version.

21. That is false. We do consider ourselves to be Latinos. /r/asklatinamerica.

22. I do consider Latin Americans to be western. Also yes, we consider Brazilians to be Latinos because Portuguese is a Romance language. We don’t consider you to be Hispanic though.

23. Portuguese is still a Romance language, so yes it’s part of Latin America, but not Hispanic.

    And no, I don’t consider Latin America to be part of Western Culture because outside of the Caribbean it’s not represented in NATO and tends to be more the victims of the Western World’s desire to completely crush the spectre of communism rather than proponents of how we should totally do all that stuff that the western world has done in the global south for the last centuries

24. I’m in the Pacific Northwest and rarely hear Latino. Maybe people here are more curious about your country of origin, because I wouldn’t think to call you Latino if I knew you were from Brazil. You would be Brazilian to most people around here, Latino is too vague.

25. I’ve been alive long enough to understand the problems with considering independent countries as Latino much like the problem with considering the USA as English. if Brazilians don’t want to be Latino, let them be Brazilians.

26. Latino – From Latin America

    Hispanic – From a Spanish speaking country

    e.g. Spain: Hispanic, but not Latino. Brazil: Latino but not Hispanic. Mexico: Both Latino and Hispanic