From: Michael J Smith
Message: 26333
Date: 2003-10-11
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Jo�o Sim�es 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,
> Malm�
> (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
>
>
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