At her Lusitanic Majesty's Request
For as long as I can remember (if you'll believe, for the purposes of this entry, that I can only remember as far back as yesterday), I have wondered if Brazilians qualified as Latinos.It turns out they don't, strictly speaking, but do, in a close enough for government work kind of way.
They, and other Portuguese-speaking people like Cape Verdeans and the staff of Fajitas 'n' 'Ritas, are Lusitanic, from the Lusitani tribe of the western coast of Iberia, where now sits Portugal.
From Wikipedia:
Lusitanic is a term used to categorize persons who share the linguistic and cultural traditions of the Portuguese-speaking nations of Portugal, Brazil, Macau, East Timor, Angola, Mozambique, Cape Verde, São Tomé and Príncipe, Guinea Bissau and others. The term can be easily compared to Hispanic - as this term describes those who speak the Spanish language, have ancestry from a Spanish speaking nation or otherwise have cultural ties to Spanish speaking nations. Neither of the terms are based specifically on race or ethnicity, but rather on a shared cultural or linguistic heritage. The term Anglo, however, when used to describe English speaking nations is less comparable.
The Latino question crossed my mind when I bumped into a Latina, but that is a different story.
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by Marty Barrett at Friday, May 26, 2006
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