my apologies. "Case" does not sound anywhere near as latin flavored as "Guevara" does.
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Guevara is a Spanish name but Lynch is an Irish one.
You said "ethnic heritage", not "ethnicity". Che and I share an ethnic
heritage, even though we
are of different ethnicity.
But what makes someone a "latino" or "latina"? You want a purely cultural construct, that designation fits the bill entirely. From what I can tell it simply means a person who comes from a country that has a primary language that is a Romance Language (aka Latin language).
But I ask: Is someone from Spain a Latino? Someone from Italy? France? Romania? Portugal?
Often times, no (even though each of these people are Latin peoples). It means something more than speaking romance language. It means doing so while being from the
Americas.
But if being from a country in the Americas that has a primary language that is a romance language is the only thing that can qualify someone as Latino, then that means someone from Guyana or Suriname or Belize
isn't a Latino.
But
wait, Canada has two primary languages... one of them is a
romance language!
French Canadians
are Latinos because if Haiti or French Guiana qualify as Latin America and as such the people are Latinos, it would be an arbitrary exclusion to classify French Canadians as anything
other than Latino.
It has nothing to do with "racial" characteristics. It's all just a discussion of languages and continent of origin.
Even though someone from Belize might be inaccurately considered Latino, that would of course only indicate that the person doing the considering is ignorant of what Latino means.
Even though a French Canadian might be considered a non-Latino, again that only reflects the ignorance of the person doing the considering.
Che
was a Latino. But as you can see that only refers to his primary language and continent of origin. Nothing else. If people feel they can "pick out" a Latino on sight, they are simply ignorant.
And if you haven't seen the Bush/chimp thing, I don't know where you've been:
Are those "racist"?