Why do Brazilians get mad when an outsider call them “Latinos” like do they know what’s a Latino mean? Because I was talking with a group of Brazilian people and somehow I said “Latinos” and they said “No! We aren’t Latinos but just Brazilians” I was confused for a moment..

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Ivair · Answer

This definition of Latinos was created by Americans to refer to Latin American immigrants in their country, since the vast majority of those immigrants are from Hispanic countries, all the Latino things are in fact Hispanic, even though Brazil is one third of Latin America, so it's normal for Brazilians to not feel indenfied by this definition.

newrules · Answer

@tamarindo I don't know why they get mad at it lol 
I always think about being Latino someone who speaks a language that came from Latin (even French ppl, even tho they probably won't  identify themselves as Latino bc "they are in Europe not Latin America")
also I haven't seen Brazilians getting mad at being called as Latinos (ofc when it's not in a racist/bad context), but I've seen ppl from other Latino countries besides Brazil saying we are not Latinos bc we don't speak Spanish and we weren't colonized by Spain 
Btw about the word gringo, in Brazil gringo it's not only for ppl from the U.S. we use this word for every foreing and I was so shocked when I called my Mexican friend by gringa and she was like omgg no I'm Mexican, not gringa hahahahah

esthermeirelis · Answer

In my opinion, the fact that we are the only country in the Latin American language to speak Portuguese as a native language, makes us feel a bit out of place with other Latinos.

Rodrigo__BR · Answer

@tamarindo Many of the Brazilians do not consider themselves Latin because they compare the culture, language and customs of the countries of the American continent that speak Spanish that is totally different from us. We prefer to be called South Americans, the Latin term is only to be based on the linguistic origins derived from Latin (Portuguese, French, Italian, Spanish)

Rodrigo__BR · Answer

@soumaisceara21 Vc é retardado?

Rodrigo__BR · Answer

@tamarindo Other countries, when they hear the term "Latin," believe that our country has cultural and ethnic similarities, such as Mexico, Colombia, etc. Which is not right. Many Americans (USA) make that mistake, saying that Brazil speaks Spanish because of Latin America. That is, the term that should be used as a linguistic relationship ends up becoming a stereotype.

Rodrigo__BR · Answer

@tamarindo That does not matter. I find it quite a waste of time to dwell on this. It's just something controversial for some Brazilians and nothing much ...

Rodrigo__BR · Answer

@tamarindo As you wish ... It's really an irrelevant detail, it does not even deserve to be discussed.

Rodrigo__BR · Answer

@pizzadebiscoito o garota ninguém aqui tá estressado!

robson_chan · Answer

Neither all Brazilians get mad with this, and WE ARE LATINOS, this is the fact.

Rachel_oli · Answer

For me, you being a Brazilian and don't considerate yourself Latino is denying your cultural identity! I am Brazilian and yes, I am Latina!
Although some people think it may be offensive (by how people from US usually talk about Latin America), I feel sometimes that some Brazilian don't want to be compared to the rest of America Latina, which is stupid, because we have more things in common than we know!

Briciorj · Answer

@tamarindo 🤣👏🏼

Chelsea_M · Answer

I don't get mad if you call me that I'm South American, Brazilian and Latina 🙃

Chelsea_M · Answer

LATINOS is NOT just who speak spanish *Why people don't get that yet?!!* Just like she said in Guyana, Suriname and Dominica they don't speak spanish neither JUST LIKE IN BRAZIL

Chelsea_M · Answer

There's any problem to a Brazilian be called Latino

Samuel_Jnior · Answer

Gostaria muito de falar o engles alguns de vocês tem Facebook ou WhatsApp pra mim ensinar se quiserem ?

soumaisceara21 · Answer

@tamarindo hi

soumaisceara21 · Answer

@tamarindo Hi👍

soumaisceara21 · Answer

@tamarindo how are you doing?

soumaisceara21 · Answer

@tamarindo what's your name?

soumaisceara21 · Answer

@tamarindo okay

soumaisceara21 · Answer

@tamarindo Where do you live?

soumaisceara21 · Answer

@tamarindo 👏👏👏

Bruna98 · Answer

Since we speak a different language  and we had really different influences in the construction of our culture and history, we don't identify ourselves as "latinos".

Bruna98 · Answer

I also study philology and literature. The point here is more cultural than linguistic. When someone talk about Brazilian culture, it involves more than native culture or European culture, we had so many different influences (from almost all above the globe) that it's difficult to tell what is the identity of Brazilian culture. So historically you can say Brazilians are latinos, but it will be hard to see a Brazilian calling himself this way because we see our cultural and historical identity quite unique in compare to others.

Bruna98 · Answer

Nice to meet you too

Ro8055 · Answer

Complementing the answers, Brazil is the only country in Latin America that does not have Spanish as a native language, and another fact that annoys Brazilians a lot is when some foreigner - usually an American - say that in Brazil speaks Spanish, they say that capital is Buenos Aires ... anyway, it is a shallow interjection of a country that despite being considered underdeveloped, but is very important for the world. We Brazilians and Brazil are much more than the label of samba, soccer, Rio de Janeiro and beautiful women. The other nations should know much more about Brazil. You build metal superalloy equipment made with the Brazilian Niobium (we have 97.5% of world reserves), you develop specific medicines and cosmetics with raw materials that only exist in the Brazilian Amazon, you fight the best jiu-jitsu in the world that was created in the Brazil, you can only exploit oil in deep waters because the world's leading technology is developed by Brazilians, you move in vehicles, generate energy and use powered machines, all powered by ethanol that was invented in Brazil, you fly in airplanes because they were invented by a Brazilian (Santos Dumont) who had the idea usurped by the Wright brothers and took the credit, the best armies in the world send their soldiers to Brazil to learn combat techniques in natural hostile environments with the best soldiers in the world: Brazilians, in the same way, the urban combat in areas of rugged relief and without organized infrastructure, whose s techniques are creations of elite police officers in Brazil. I could type all night long about the references that Brazil offers to the world, but I believe that these are enough, so i belive that we can receive a worthy recognition.

BRASILEIROitaliano · Answer

@Samuel_Jnior deveria aprender o português primeiro.

kessinha · Answer

@tamarindo Olá, você gostaria de me ajudar no inglês e ser ajudada no português? Gostaria de alguém para fazer essa troca de aprendizagem, se estiver disponível me mande uma mensagem ou me siga no instagram @kessssssia com 6 "s", ou me mande seu número do whatsapp, desde já agradeço, obrigada.

JMBrasil · Answer

We Brazilians have that confusion! Amongst ourselves! You are not wrong! We are part of Latin America! We are Latinos! Sadly just as we have difficulties identifying our skin color, lots of people still want to be closer to Europeans or Estadounidenses, then with our neighbors!

pizzadebiscoito · Answer

call us american tho, why not?

pizzadebiscoito · Answer

@Rodrigo17 yes, no stress

pizzadebiscoito · Answer

@Rodrigo17 o colega, eu tava concordando com seu comentario no qual vc disse ser "uma perda de tempo discutir sobre isso", complementando q n vale o estresse. eu ein

Lavinia_deSouza · Answer

We are not “Latinos”, because we dont speak spanish. But yes. We live in America Latina

Caiolindozo · Answer

for Brazilians "latinos" are people who talk spanish in America

Deleted user · Answer

Hi! I'm Brazilian and I feel pretty fine with being called as "Latin American" I'm proud of it actually. I present myself as Brazilian to be more specific but I'm really fine with it. In my opinion one of the reasons why Latin Americans (probably not just Brazilians) might not be so comfortable for being called like that is because people from many other countries have used this expression to express the exoticism they relate to Latin America. I think this way because "have you ever noticed how many movies which the villain characters are Latin Americans?" There are so many! When it happens in the movies it's related to crime, drugs, poverty and sex most of the times... I'm not sure but I guess people from Africa must feel more comfortable for being related to their nationality like Egyptian or Tunisian instead of African for instance... Also when it comes to Europeans, it's more common to hear they saying things like "I'm French, Italian, Spanish, Romanian..." instead of "I'm Latin or I'm European Latin..." Even though the definition "Latin American" were created by the own conquers who founded America, it was over 500 years ago and nowadays this definition has been increased with many other meanings we might not like. I mean... it doesn't mean "The new world" anymore. That's just my opinion, I can't represent over 200 million people's thoughts hahah. But as I said, I'm ok with being Latin American =]

josiannekatiuscia · Answer

I get really sad about it because most people in Brazil don't consider themselves as latinos. I think that happens because we speak portuguese, not spanish like others countries in Latin America. For me, I love being a latina, it's part of who I am.

rafaellsouza · Answer

Latino is commonly destinated for who borned/live in central
America. As the USA people is called american, the people of Central America is called Latinos. Brazil is in South America, as the Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay are also into.. for any people of these countries  is not commom to be classified as Latinos.

Why do Brazilians get mad when an outsider call them “Latinos” like do they know what’s a Latino mean? Because I was talking with a group of Brazilian people and somehow I said “Latinos” and they said “No! We aren’t Latinos but just Brazilians” I was confused for a moment..

Since we speak a different language and we had really different influences in the construction of our culture and history, we don't identify ourselves as "latinos".

Nice to meet you too

It’s a pleasure!

Neither all Brazilians get mad with this, and WE ARE LATINOS, this is the fact.

Indeed

@pizzadebiscoito o garota ninguém aqui tá estressado!

@Rodrigo17 o colega, eu tava concordando com seu comentario no qual vc disse ser "uma perda de tempo discutir sobre isso", complementando q n vale o estresse. eu ein

@Ivair it was created by the own conquers who founded America. Find: Américo Vespuccio but yes I feel that tho

@pizzadebiscoito certo

I get really sad about it because most people in Brazil don't consider themselves as latinos. I think that happens because we speak portuguese, not spanish like others countries in Latin America. For me, I love being a latina, it's part of who I am.

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