Michael Paz wrote: > > Typical "gringo" logic. ;-) Gabriel Garcia Marquez has plenty to say on this > topic. He got bent out of shape with this topic claiming that the North > Americans were arrogant to call themselves Americans as IF they were the > only ones. We were taught in Latin America that America' was the whole > bleeding thing from North To South.
"Latin America" is what confuses me. When I was a kid there was an article in a National Geographic about Latin America and I couldn't find it on any map. And there was mention in the article about Spanish being the language spoken (although isn't Brazil part of "Latin America"), and no mention of Latin being spoken, so I was thoroughly confused about it. Still am. And yet it's a designation that Garcia Marquez uses so there's nothing derogatory about it from what I can tell. Me, some of my peeps are from Central > America which makes us Central Americans or Latinos which my son wants to > know why that is cause we don't speak Latin we speak spanish, which fuels > the fire under my wifes ass who sez that we are Hispanic because we all > originated from Spain, but that leaves out the connection with all the > tribes in Central America yes my Mayan ancestors, but then maybe we are all > Africans cause that's where it all started isn't it??? The mother land. Isn't that fantastic? That new thinking that "Eve" came from the middle of Africa. That's wonderfully ironic considering it's a continent most people (myself included) know so little about they couldn't even name the countries. > I tried > to find the article about it on the internet for you, but I couldn't find > it. I love his writing and I will keep looking for it for you, it's a good > read. I love his writing, too, and years ago went through a period of reading Latin American writers (and wishing I could read their words in Spanish). If you find the article, I'd like to read it also. Debra Shea
