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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, João Simões Lopes Filho
<josimo70@...> wrote:
> Eh eh, this is a circular definition: Latino is everyone who
consider themselves as Latino. Would it include Brazilians? The
definition states that is aplicable to Spanish-language countries,
which would automatically exclude Brazilians, but if a Brazilian
consider himself as a Latino it will be a Latino. By this circular
definition , if Swedes identify themselves as Latinos, they will be
Latinos. Amazing.
>
> Joao SL
>
You will be happy to know that question has been resolved: I just
heard on TV a member of the Danish parliament declare (she was being
interviewed on the unfortunate state of affairs of the geographical
knowledge of Danish students) with much conviction that they speak
Spanish in Brazil.
What Swedes define themselves as these days is in a state of flux,
I'd say; eg. among the under-18 in Sweden's third largest city, Malmö
(250,000) the ethnic Swedes (the original inhabitants of Sweden) are
now in minority. Some of the programs on Swedish state-run TV
channels are subtitled in Arabic (a good deal of the inhabitants,
also of those born in Sweden, don't speak Swedish).
Torsten