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On 8/8/2018 at 10:02 AM, Jabba Desilijic Tiure said:

For all intents and purposes, the tag(LatinA) indicates she's a non-Caucasian Hispanic.  And that's not how she describes herself:
 

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Based on her physical traits, face, etc. she's at least 80% European.

 

On 8/8/2018 at 9:47 AM, kururu said:

Not to be a pedant here, but if Italians aren't Latin, no one is.

The term "Latino" was coined purportedly by Emperor Napoleon III as a term of unity to help justify the French invasion of Mexico, and it just stuck. It's a purely cultural term.

Italians are certainly Latin as in "Roman" (although through the medieval period the Germanic barbarians like Lombards and the various Mediterraneans like Greeks left their genetic legacy across Italy, compare South Tyrol to Sicily!), but not Latin*o* in the colloquial sense.

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3 minutes ago, DailyDose said:

Based on her physical traits, face, etc. she's at least 80% European.

 

The term "Latino" was coined purportedly by Emperor Napoleon III as a term of unity to help justify the French invasion of Mexico, and it just stuck. It's a purely cultural term.

Italians are certainly Latin as in "Roman" (although through the medieval period the Germanic barbarians like Lombards and the various Mediterraneans like Greeks left their genetic legacy across Italy, compare South Tyrol to Sicily!), but not Latin*o* in the colloquial sense.

Hey, I heard there was a hot girl somewhere on this thread.

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2 hours ago, Jabba Desilijic Tiure said:

Hey, I heard there was a hot girl somewhere on this thread.

 

1 hour ago, lostonline040 said:

There is, with sexy belly-peek shots!

 

16 minutes ago, John Smith said:

There have white Latinas too, though. They aren't a "race" .


Help us, @BigBunny.  You're our only hope. 

The only race I'm interested in right now is the 100 meter dash away from one of us accidentally pissing off the political correctness police.

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2 hours ago, DailyDose said:

Based on her physical traits, face, etc. she's at least 80% European.

 

I have many mixed-race folks amid my own family (which have itself some unspokedly, very minor half-mixed heritage too) and trust me: one's appareance doesn't necessarily fit the narrative of its family background. I have relatives who may almost pass for what you Americans roughly qualify of "dark whites" , "Mediterraneans" ,  yet "Nordics" , while some of the ones who aren't considered like mixed may look like "Dark Mediterraneans" or the stereotypical "biracial" . We nonetheless are of mostly subtropical African ancestry.

Does you have already heard about the actress and comedian Aubrey Plaza? She recently discoevred while an interview with "Late Night with Seth Meyers" she was of 33% West African ancestry while the exposition of her DNA ancestry test. And though it wouldn't be really surprizing that a Boricua may have some fluent pedigreee dating back to the Atlantic coasts of the African continent considering her native homeland's historicity coupled by the statistical fact that over 90% of the Puerto-Ricans are of African descent, her racially ambiguous looks and multiethnic heritage may pass her for a stereotypical Latin without the "o" at the end (except perhaps in "Dirty Grandpa" . Regular bronzage may reveal a pretty lot of things) .
Then recently, I tried to confront @Jabba Desilijic Tiure  again about an old subtopic of ours upon Ashley Graham's somewhat exotic traits, and the point it made now thrice we fall on models or actresses looking like her who are either considered like "black" , "multiracial" or "morena" in regard to one's native cultural background.

And I didn't spoke yet about Sasha PIeterse's Khoisan grand-grand greatmother, neither about the fact that Americans like to classify her as a "Caucasian" of Dutch descent when she is still considered like a "Coloured" in her native South Africa. 


By the way, what does ever meant, being "80% European" ? There have so many various ethnolinguistic groups of so many different origins in this continent alone that no one ever truly constitutes a proper genetic monolith (aside have some remote common ancestries related to Late Paleolithic Eurasian hunter-gatherers, Mideastern farmers and/or the remaining hybrid descendants from some extinct offshoot of the Homo genus) . Who does, anyway? There have a point we should considering to shun away from any confusion between identity or nationalistic/pan-nationaslitic sentiments with the Neverland. Historiographically social-cultural entities weren't and still aren't some sort of impenetrable strongholds hovering through mid-air.

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