Are Portuguese people considered POC ?
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Anonymous
| They speak Portuguese, not Spanish. And I knew a few students in college who were pretty dark skinned. Are they POC ? |
Anonymous
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There are POC in Portugal, and there are white people in Portugal. Just speaking Portuguese does not make one a POC.
Kinda like America. |
Anonymous
| Do you mean people from Portugal or people who speak Portuguese? |
Anonymous
| Ha ha ask the Portuguese Americans in RI how much they love black people. |
Anonymous
Or Spanish speakers from Latin America |
Anonymous
| Yes. And so are most Brazilians there are also some whites |
Anonymous
| It's tough to say. They are Latino, but that's an ethniticity not a race I think. I'm not sure myself. |
Anonymous
| Is Giselle Bundchen a person of color? |
Anonymous
You do realize most speakers of Portuguese are from Brazil with a population of 214.3 million as compared to Portugal with a population of 10 million. So statistically if you hear someone speaking Portuguese chances are they are from Brazil. |
Anonymous
| People from Spain qualify as Hispanic. People from Brazil qualify as Latino. White people from Portugal are white, nothing else. |
Anonymous
Well, acktually……… 🙄🙄 |
Anonymous
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Depends on who you ask. Anyone remember the movie Mystic Pizza? They were most certainly considered "other" at one time.
(Everyone in that movie pronounced it as "PORT-a-geese" too!) |
Anonymous
| Portugual is a wuropean colonizer country. They're not Latinos. They oppressed the natives |
Anonymous
Well ACTUALLY... You do realize that Brazilian Portuguese and Portuguese Portuguese sound completely different, don't you? I live in a city with many Portuguese people from Brazil and from Portugal. There is no way to confuse them. |
Anonymous
They are? Says who? Latino is a term used for people from Latin-America. Europeans don’t use that term. Spanish people consider themselves Spaniards. Portuguese are Lusitano. Most Portuguese consider themselves white. Some can be darker skinned, more like a Middle Eastern olive tone, given the long Arabic presence in the area centuries ago. - signed, a Portuguese |