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Originally posted by fabbriche
Okay according to the good sis wiki:
So that means even Spain in Europe, Equatorial Guinea in Africa and even a group of Spanish-speaking people in southern Philippines are all Latinos as well.
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Latins were an Italian tribe inhabiting central and south-central Italy. Through conquest by their most populous city-state, Rome, the original Latins culturally "Romanized" or "Latinized" the rest of Italy. In this way the word "Latin" ceased to mean a particular people or ethnicity. Subsequently, other regions, particularly the European ones such as Spain, Portugal, Italy and France, became lastingly culturally "Latinized" by the Roman Empire. Thus, from an early stage in its history, when used as a label for various groups of people, the term "Latin" has had purely legal and cultural meanings, not ethnic.
It's not the ppl who speaks Spanish it's ppl which languages are derivate from the Latin language (Italy)
It includes most of the American countries, some europeans and I read some asians but that's almost non- existent.
