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>>On 7 Jan 96 at 16:05, in Re: New Marketing pages for
>>hispani, Luis Esteban wrote:
> I'm really sorry if Mr. Abbot has some problems with the
> hispanic people.
As I specifically stated, the question is only about word
use (your English) and not about people, noe was it a
criticism. In the US "Hispanic" refers only to US imigrants
from Spanish speaking cultures and not to spanish speakers
in other parts of the world. I asked if it had different
meaning elsewhere.
Abby
Dear Luis and Abby
You both are right.
Luis Esteban is translating his words literally from Spanish to
English. The world Hispanic is more or less similar to
Anglo ( related to English language and people ) or Arabic
( related to Arabic language and its speakers in different countries).
Hispanic is a common word used worldwide by academics for the studies
on Spain, Its culture, Language and of course encompassing the Americas
where the principal language or lingua franca is Spanish language.
The US demographers have used Hispanic mainly for Immigrants whose
primary language is Spanish irrespective of their nationality in origin.
The word Hispano or Hispanic or Spanish is many times used with negative
connotations
just like the words Indian or Negro. This is simply because of ignorance.
The definition of Latin America
In Spain the term commonly used for Spanish speaking Americas
is Hispano-America and lately America Latina.
Since Brazil, West Indies and Haiti don't have Spanish as lingua franca
the term Latin America was invented - because Portuguese and French
like Spanish are derived from Latin.
Coming back to the term Hispano - or Hispanic Americans
Hispanic heritage is the only thing common among all Hispano Americans
and Spaniards of today - otherwise their local cultures predominate their
lives. "Hispanos" of a given area in Latin America have different
sub-cultures and different patterns of behavior.
The Spanish Colonialism gave the common language of Spain
to the natives of most part of Americas.
Although Spanish is not official language of the US but
it is 2nd most wide spread language in the US.
As per latest studies Spanish is the most dominant language
learnt by English speakers in the USA today.
Hope the above is clear.
Prav Kaps
Center for Global Trade Development
http://www.cgtd.com/global/index.html
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