Why do most Hispanic people consider Brazilian people Hispanic in America?

Question

I know for a fact that they are not.Most Brazilians come from a Portuguese background,some are German,Italian,French,Spanish,Polish,est.The other big half are a bunch of Mulattos,(including Mestizos)and the rest are
Asians,Amerindian,and Arab.Usually a Hispanic person is a person who speaks Spanish,and has a cultural/racial background related to Spain.Brazilians don't even speak Spanish,they speak Portuguese.How did this come about?
I have a girlfriend who is Brazilian,and she hates it when Hispanic people call her by that name.I'm Hispanic and she calls me a spicc all the time.I tend to ignore it because I love her.Anyways getting back to what a was saying,if there is anyone out there willing to answer the question,feel free.

Answer 1

America is not a country, it's a continent.

Yes, you're right, Brazilians are not Hispanic, because we speak Portuguese, and Hispanic is a term for people that speak Spanish. But it has NOTHING to do with ethnic background. There are people in Hispanic America that do not descent of Spanish (the indigenous people, blacks, descendants of Italians and Germans (specially in southern South America), etc) and there are even some people in Brazil that are descendants of Spanish, but they should not be called Hispanic, because it's about language, not the racial background.

Answer 2

Wow, eight solutions announcing eight unique matters. Here's my imaginative and prescient> a million. You're Hispanic when you talk Spanish, no longer our case, we aren't Spanish. two. I hate the phrase "latino" utilized by English-speaker, it is LATIN AMERICAN, YOU DON'T SPEAK SPANISH OR PORTUGUESE... besides, sure, we are Latin Americans. Latin Americans are everyone born within the international locations within the Americas that talk latin language, that is the case of Portuguese. Nothing to do with race. three. I have no idea if Brazil is probably the most numerous nation of Latin America... it is the one with the largest exposure, that is for certain. People without difficulty do not pay attention as so much approximately from Countries like Colombia and Peru which might be additionally very racially numerous. four. Yes there are Amerindian and Asian Brazilians however their percent on whole populace could be very small. Asian are zero,five% of Brazilian populace and Amerindian zero,four%. Brazil is nearly BLACK and WHITE and MIXED. five. As I stated in a earlier reply, I consider Argentina and Uruguay have extra persons with non-Iberian (Portugal and Spain) final names than Brazil. It's the exposure once more... Now, allow's proper a few reply above a million. Brazil isn't eighty% black. FACT. It does not subject when you exhibit me records introduced via the AFRO-wikipedia announcing that eighty three% of Brazilians have 10% of black blood. Even if they have got... I refuse to be given that a character with 10% of black blood will have to be regarded black. That's without difficulty... NONSENSE. I can inform you that approximately 60% of the Brazilian populace has no obvious black facets and 30% of Brazilians populace haven't any change in phrases of bodily look from an European. two. Brazilians don't seem to be "Portugueses". Portuguese is a language or persons born in Portugal. The phrase for everyone that speaks Portuguese is: "lusophone". Hispanic and latin isn't the equal factor

Answer 3

Go get a Latin American history text and a map of Europe and stop asking dumb questions. The cultural/racial mixture that you described for Brazilians (you conveniently forgot the plain old black people (no mules at all)) is the same fo people in Spanish speaking countries. Hi-SPAN-ic means "of Spain" because all you native American people were enslaved, invaded and raped by people from ESPANA (pretend there is an ~ over that "n") who brought Africans to work after they were done raping and slaughtering the native population. However, Portuguese sailors reached the same body of land first and populated the west coast (all the while killing, plundering etc.). The treaty of Tordesillas was an agreement between Spain and Portugal that Portugal would receive all of the land outside of Europe from the Cape Verde islands (off the coast of West Africa) to the 370th latitude (the islands that Columbus had "discovered" for Spain). THAT is how your woman became a Portuguese (Brasileiro) speaking LusoAmerican. You, having roots somewhere east of that 370th latitude became HI-SPANIC. Agora, da um beixo a sua namorada e lhe diga "disculpa". She is NOT HISPANIC.

Answer 4

like the guy above said, they probably meant to say Latino.
more education about the differences of Hispanic, Latino, and Portuguese should do the job of correcting people. more education on geography and history would also help. anyone who knows about Brazil will know they do not speak Spanish therefore are not Hispanic.

your girlfriend should just correct them when they call her Hispanic

Answer 5

You forgot Black. We know Brazilians speak portuguese.

Answer 6

What they probably mean to say is that brazilians are latinos, but they're so used to using hispanic. I dunno. My brazilian wife calls me "pretinho" (like blackie), so I feel ya. She doesn't mean any harm, your gf either most likely.