Why are Mexicans or Latinos now turning back on their real heritage and claiming to be Latin when they don't even speak Latin?

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Another fine example of the ignorant attempting to appear intelligent.

For the author of the question and others who are too ignorant to understand, Spanish is one of the "latin languages". But feel free to ridicule what you don't understand. It certainly demonstrates who you are.

Responsein case you didnt know 45% of English comes from latin so that makes them latin too. i guess. the name Britain is latin,the Romans occupied England over 2000 years ago for several hundred yrs the name London is latin;which comes from "londinium". the name Mexico comes from nahuatl. it's neither spanish nor latin. so for that matter the british are more latin than even the Mexicans or colombians.then the gringos from the usa or Canada who mainly speak English or french were Latino's all along then. so why do we even have a Latino label in America. Puerto Rico (spanish/English speaking) which belongs to the u.s has many who are at least partially or mostly of blackafrican heritage are too African American btw. Anglo?Germans, Austrians, Russians, French... it doesn't really matter what your ancestry, once a white person comes to the U.S. they're categorized as "Anglo". Does it matter? AnswerIf I remember correctly from my high school world history class English is a Germanic language, while it does draw from Latin, English also draws from the early Germanic languages. AnswerThe second poster, who is the one that asked the question in the first place, seems to be rather confused as to what a Latino is. A Latino is someone who is from a Spanish speaking country. Mexicans and Latinos in general are not now turning back to their heritage. We have always been proud of who we are and where we came from. We don't have to speak Latin to be Latinos. As a matter of fact about the only Latin used now is by doctors and the Catholic church.