and not that you have any clue as to the topic that is being discussed.
Now thanks for that......it never occurd to me to look at the title of the thread.....nor read about Kaka and where he came from...nor what the term "latin american" means and what nationalities it refers too........other than that you are right again............I wonder where you got your internet psychoanalysis degree from.....again this is rhetorical as we all know, especially you, that you know everything.......and thanks you ever so much for that.....right Francis
No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.
~ Alice Walker
Except you not in this thread to 'grow'...as we both know. Fuh ah grown man (presumably with kids) yuh have a dismaying penchant for basket-throwing...I can really get psychoanalytical if that's what you want, seeing you already throwing it out there. Berris say "jackass" so you pick up de jackass talk too...and what's really funny is that you truly DON'T have a clue.
I actually was waiting for Midknight to come back in de thread so that he could tell us more about the good folks at the 'institut' and how offended they would be if we left out the Brazilians from de 'latino' label. He conveniently ran to Wikipedia and got the first definition that suited his purpose, posted it here and disappear. And you...ever the willing parrot, lap it up like the trained poodle you are...and run with it "thanks fuh de education"...and yuh gone. Now we know how yuh get to where yuh is. Well as I was just telling someone else, what Midknight failed to do was post the rest of that article...or at least this part:
There are several definitions of Latin America, none of them perfect or necessarily logically consistent:
In most common contemporary usage, Latin America refers only to those territories in the Americas where Spanish or Portuguese prevail: Mexico, most of Central and South America, plus Cuba, the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico in the Caribbean.
Strictly and technically speaking, Latin America designates all those countries and territories in the Americas where Romance languages (i.e. languages derived from Latin, and hence the name of Latin America) are spoken: Spanish, Portuguese, and their creoles. Indeed, this was the original intent when the term was coined by the French. This would then include former French colonies such as Quebec in Canada, Haiti, Martinique and Guadeloupe in the Caribbean, and French Guiana in South America.
The former Dutch colonies Suriname, the Netherlands Antilles, and Aruba are not usually considered part of Latin America, even though in the latter two, the predominantly Iberian-influenced language Papiamento is spoken by the majority of the population.
Look at that...ah bet yuh didn't know de Quebecois were also 'latin americans'... and the Netherland Antilles...people from Aruba, Bon Aire and Curacao would also be latinos...according to a definition derived by Napoleon.
I could listen to that...or I could heed the words of a former college roommate from Bahia, who vehemently rejected the "latino" label. So who do we believe...Wikipedia? De fellas dong at de 'Institut of Latin American sumting sumting'? or Actual Brazilians?
The evidence need not even be that subjective...today's Brazilians are in part descended from the Portuguese and it's from this that the reasoning to label them 'latin Americans' is derived. Except that the 'latin' part has to do not only with the linguistics of the 'romantic' languages...but it's cultural...and there is no one Iberian culture. Doh worry about it...Iberian is one ah dem 'know it all' words...yuh could go look it up later...then come tell we how Cristobal Colon and Amerigo Vespucci were really from de same culture.
I have no idea what Kaka identifies with...but it's accurate to describe all Brazilians as 'Latin American'...just as it's accurate to call all Trinidadians 'Africans'. then again, from the same source Midknight conveniently forgot to quote:
Sometimes, particularly in the United States, the term Latin America is used to refer to all of the Americas south of the U.S., including countries such as Belize, Jamaica, Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana, and Suriname where non-Romance languages prevail.
Indeed, in historical terms, Latin America could be defined as all those parts of the Americas that were once part of the Spanish or Portuguese (and arguably also French) Empires. Hence much of the US Southwest plus Florida (and also French Louisiana) would be covered by this definition.
Look thing...congrats, you too are 'Latin American'...ah bet folks on dey way back from Miami fuh carnival dis weekend di'n realize they left de country and went Latin America.
Maybe now Bare Ass can appreciate why "infinitissimal" was used.