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Originally Posted by Kevin
I dunno.. IMHO, it's a sort of convoluted, invented racial classification which has little to do with culture and ancestry and more to do with the fact that the white people see you as being from the "here be dragons" part of the map.
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According to the wikipedia entry I was reading, it's not even firmly established that you can trace Cardoza's family history to Portugal although it was the family tradition.
I had been told at one point that if you were Spanish you weren't Hispanic, so I wouldn't think that being descended from folks from Portugal would make you Hispanic either, not only because of the language issue, but because it's an issue of the colonial relationship.
ETA: upon more reflection, I can't remember who told me that or why I regarded him or her an an authority, so it's pretty much without value, I guess.