E Pluribus Unum, Semper Fi, etc are written in Latin. Aztlan is pretty much Latino/Hispanic,so, is USA Latino?

Question

As an American: What do you think about your Latino side or national heritage?

Latin = Latino, Latin-America or Latino-America. . . Europa Latina... Raices Greco-Latinas. Italiano, Español, Frances, Rumano y Portugues.
Roma y Constantinopla.
Las Vegas y Los Angeles,
desde Tejas a California
y la Florida...
Alta y Baja California,
Latinos,
Mexicanos,
Hispanos,
La Raza Cosmica

Latin-America = Latino-America
Hispanic= Person whose mother tongue is Spanish, or person whose cultural heritage is Latino ( Roman Catholic , Hispanic, Ibero, Mestizo, etc )
nostros nos identificamos por el idioma y por nuestra identidad cultural.
aunque hablemos Portugues, Italiano o Rumano, de todos los colores y sabores: Latinos!

Answer 1

Anglo = Only English monolingual.
Gringo = Anglo
USA is 1/2 Latino
and
1/2 Anglo.
I am Latino though

Answer 2

WOW! What an argument! Obviously, logic and reasoning are not your forte!
The English language is more than 60% of Latin derivation. Latinos is an epithet, a name calling, such as the N word refering to blacks.
If you would care to study some history, you will find that Spanish, French, Netherlanders, and the Brits intermingled for thousands of years...it is only during modern times that persons such as yourself try to put things into a completely rediculous perspective.
If you continue with that, the Scopes trial will be back!

Answer 3

Nice try....

But, "Latin", with regard to language, refers to the ancient Indo-European language.It is correctly known as Classic Latin and derives it's name from the area in which it was spoken.

It's origins go back to the city/state of Latium near current day Rome. Many of the world's languages are based on Classic Latin.

The term "Latin America" is a post-independence term brought into use somewhere between 1800-1825 and 1980 and commonly refers to the Spanish and Portugese colonial invasions of South and Central America and Mexico.

It's use today is sort of a misnomer. Designating everyone from Mexico and South America as "Latinos" is sort of like designating the citizens of North America as "White".

All of these areas have many diverse ethnicities and cultures and lumping everyone into one identity is incorrect.

Answer 4

Your question has also ended up in the UK answers.. However, most languages are an amalgam, so you should not be too surprised to find latin, greek egyptian and so forth in our modern language.
It is a known fact that trying to preserv a language will actually kill it quicker. Just watch the french language over the next few years, they have tried to kill breton, but there is a resurgence. They are trying to stop English being spoken, however, more and more french are using it for the internet. Many words will continue in use however, as they "seem somehow appropiate" ie RSVP, respondez s'il vous plait, par example. Et voila!
Hope that helps.

Answer 5

The Latin that is used in mottoes is derived from the old use of Latin as the language of learning. (That's why all the spells in Harry Potter are in Latin!) The other names that you list are from Spanish because of the Spanish colonial influence in the south-western parts of the USA. There are French names where the French were (Louisiana etc.) and Dutch names (Brooklyn etc.) where the Dutch were. Lots of other names are derived from Native American names (eg Omaha). And lots of names are English based (eg New York).

But the general language used in the USA as a whole is English which is Germanic, but as someone has pointed out has been heavily influenced by French and Latin particularly from the point of view of vocabulary. (In this sentence, for instance 'general', 'language', 'view' are French loan-words.)

Answer 6

Latin is an ancient Indo-European language originally spoken in Latium, the region immediately surrounding Rome. It gained wide currency, especially in Europe, as the formal language of the Roman Republic and Roman Empire, and, after Rome's conversion to Christianity, of the Roman Catholic Church. Principally through the influence of the Church, it became the language of later medieval European scholars and philosophers. As an inflectional and synthetic language, Latin word order is variable, compared with mostly analytic languages such as English, revealing syntax through a systemic structure of affixes attached to word stems. The Latin alphabet, derived from the Etruscan and Greek alphabets (each of which is derived from the earlier Phoenician alphabet), remains the most widely used in the world.

La campana ya sono; la lección se terminó. Tu asignación para mañana sera leer la definición del Latin como idioma de una enciclopedia y escribirme una tesis con un minimo de 10 paginas sobre el Latin y su influencia en la lengua moderna.

Answer 7

Latin is not the same as Latino.

Latin is a language that's just over 2050 years old.

Latino refers to anything that eventually descended from the Roman Empire that isn't otherwise part of some other culture -- including Spain and through it many South American countries.

But the US derives its primary heritage through England, which was also controlled by Rome at one point. Very little of the US was founded by Spain or its colonies.

Answer 8

English is a Germanic language.

Study some history and linguistics.

Answer 9

Very good answers already.

Perhaps someone of latino background could settle an earlier dispute.

What is, in your opinion, the definition of an "Americano?" Please limit this to those that weren't born in the USA.

Answer 10

We need to drop Spanish and start requiring the teaching Latin in our schools again! Go bi-lingual education!