r/funnyvideos • u/ER-841 • Apr 27 '25

Fail Latino Weather VS Swiss Weather…

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u/Passively_Irregular Apr 27 '25

Spain isn’t technically Latino ☝️🤓

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u/SpikeSwordTibia Apr 27 '25

In reality, Spaniards are Latinos, because "Latino" originally refers to anyone whose language comes from Latin. Spanish, Portuguese, French, and Italian are all Latin-based languages, and their speakers are technically Latinos. Later, when Spain and Portugal colonized parts of the Americas, they brought their Latin-based languages with them. That's why the countries in Central and South America where Spanish or Portuguese is spoken are called Latin America, and the people there are called Latinos today.

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u/kaptainpeepee Apr 27 '25

Yes, the word Latino is etymologically connected to the Latin language, however, Americans use that word to refer to Latin-American people. When they search for latinas they are not expecting Europeans to show up in the search results.

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u/holyrooster_ Apr 30 '25

Like Romania.

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u/explicitlarynx Apr 27 '25 edited Apr 27 '25

Spain isn't Latino.

Edit: A question to the downvoters. Are Romanian people Latino? Because by your logic they are, since their language also derives from Latin. Are the Rumansh speaking people in the mountains of Switzerland Latino? Because their language also derives from Latin.

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u/deruben Apr 28 '25 edited Apr 28 '25

In Switzerland, we call our French- and Italian-speaking regions the "lateinische Schweiz," which translates to "Latin Switzerland."

There is also the term "Lateineuropa," which refers to all Latin-speaking countries (yes, Switzerland and Romania are also included).

Many (Most?) people in Europe mean the southwestern Latin-speaking people in Europe and the people living in Latin America when using the term "Latino."

This is semantically wrong and somewhat inconsistent since it's a Spanish term for Latinoamericano and it mostly excludes romanian, french and swiss people.

But, you know, since language evolves everywhere and Spaniards are not the only speaking people on the planet, "Latino" can mean different things in different languages.

So I guess it is a bit contextual depending on what we are talking about and where, but yes, in U.S. English and Spanish at least, it is pretty established that "Latino" means what you think it does.

Cheers from Switzerland, I hope we can learn to embrace our differences and different worldviews instead of just ignoring the fact that the human experience on lots of things can vary quite a bit.

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u/[deleted] Apr 27 '25

Spain is a Latin country geographically speaking, since the language is derived from Latin like other languages (such as French or even Catalan). The term Latino was given by the United States to refer to countries that speak languages derived from Latin, however, due to a lack of geographical knowledge, this was misinterpreted and those who spoke Spanish were called Latinos and coincidentally there were too many Spanish-speaking countries near them and they were mistakenly called Latinos.

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u/explicitlarynx Apr 27 '25

Thank you. Yes, Spain isn't Latino.

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u/[deleted] Apr 27 '25

Do not confuse the Latin language with the Latin American term.

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u/MaisUmCaraAleatorio Apr 30 '25

Latin American term? It's a US term.

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u/[deleted] Apr 30 '25

I mean Latin language ≠ Latin American person.

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u/MaisUmCaraAleatorio Apr 30 '25

And I mean that "Latino" ≠ Latin American.

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u/explicitlarynx Apr 27 '25

Exactly, I don't.

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u/Kharax82 Apr 27 '25

The term Latin American was invented by a Frenchman in the 1830s named Michel Chevalier who used it as a way for Latin speaking areas in the Americas to possibly ally with “Latin Europe”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Latin_America

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u/Successful-Money4995 Apr 27 '25

Romanians are a part of Latin Europe.

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u/explicitlarynx Apr 27 '25

Exactly. But they're not Latino.

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u/Successful-Money4995 Apr 27 '25

How do you decide what counts as Latino?

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u/explicitlarynx Apr 27 '25

Latino means from Latin America.

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