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To: hecht

You have to make a pretty big stretch for the modern meaning of “Hispanic” to mean someone born in New York of Portuguese descent.


3 posted on 05/26/2009 8:17:21 PM PDT by Kleon
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To: Kleon

How is that the case?

Sotomayer was born in the Bronx and is of Puerto Rican descent. If Puerto Ricans are Hispanics, how are Portugese not?

Are Brazilians not Hispanics because they have Portugese blood in them as opposed to Spanish?


4 posted on 05/26/2009 8:25:10 PM PDT by CaspersGh0sts
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To: Kleon

...and also Jewish.

I don’t care if one is Hispanic or not but clearly Justice Cardozo does not fit the label of “Hispanic” as currently defined.

Heck, then again, what do you call Japanese Peruvians, who are pure 100% by blood but are classified “Hispanics”..

Boy! I just confused myself.... See!!! That is why labels dont work!


5 posted on 05/26/2009 8:26:58 PM PDT by SoftwareEngineer
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To: Kleon; hecht; SkyDancer
Hispania was the name given by the Romans to the whole of the Iberian Peninsula (modern Portugal, Spain, Andorra, Gibraltar and a very small southern part of France).
11 posted on 05/26/2009 10:02:27 PM PDT by caveat emptor
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