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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Except that young Latinos and Hispanics disagree and again self select.  It cycles - sometimes Hispanic is preferred and sometimes Latino is preferred. Sometimes it's neither!

What your are referring to are increasingly archaic descriptors:

Spanish refers to a person whose family is of Spanish heritage, a family of Spaniards.

Latinos are geographically connected as it denotes a shared background of Latin American countries.

Hispanic refers to a linguistic connection to the Spanish language.

On one hand, I am Latina and Hispanic - my mothers family is from a Central American country and I speak Spanish.  My father's family is all white from England. So what am I? An indigenous European Hispanic Latina?

My friend from Brazil is Latina and Brazilian but not Hispanic.

However my Brazilian friend, Dominican friend, and I share a love of plantains and salsa music. We are connected in a way we understand and the current options of Hispanic and Latino aren't good enough which is why they are at this point used interchangeably.

we gladly self identify by country for World Cup though!

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You sound attractive and interesting! Can I have your number? Email?[/quote]

Agreed.  I would enjoy meeting this person.  [/quote]

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