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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So here's another one for DCUM along the same lines:

I married into a Catalan family. My wife grew up in California as an American but my MIL grew up in Spain until her parents fled with her and she came to the US as a refugee. MIL's parents were part of the anti-Fascist resistance until they fled Spain. They arrived in the US in poverty, but now the family is doing okay financially. The family history is violent (relatives killed by the Fascists among other awful things) and you can still see the impact on the family. (My MIL will not speak of that time; we know she saw people killed in front of her when she was young.)

My DD does not speak Catalan very well at all but is immersed in Catalan culture from the extended family and identifies as Catalan in addition to American (but not as Spanish although she has Spanish citizenship). DD is white (blonde hair, blue eyes).

Two years ago DD felt strongly about putting Hispanic down on the HS enrollment form because she feels her Catalan heritage is a strong part of her identity (which it is) and she qualifies as per the 1/4 definition. She plans on talking about her relationship with her grandmother in her college essays.

What do you think, DCUM? [/quote]

Catalan is not Hispanic.[/quote]

How is Catalan not Hispanic?  Hispanic means having origins in the Iberian peninsula.  That peninsula, referred to as "Hispania" by the Romans, includes Catalonia.[/quote]

Hispanic means Spanish speaking. Catalans are not Hispanic in the same way that Brazilians are not Hispanic.[/quote]

Hispanic does not mean Spanish speaking.  What is your cite for that assertion?

Hispania was the Roman word for the Iberian peninsula, which included and still includes Catalonia and Portugal.  So Catalans and Brazilians are indeed Hispanic.[/quote]

So lovely and yet so clueless.[/quote]

Now that is a weighty, thoughtful response.[/quote]

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