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Originally Posted by Kevin
Wasn't Cardozo the Court's first hispanic?
Some folks count Portuguese as "hispanic." I have no earthly idea why, but they do.
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Originally Posted by UGAalum94
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.
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Per that same Wiki article, it appears that all that is known for sure is that his grandparents were Sephardim -- which would suggest that the families came from either Iberia (Spain or Portugal) or northern Africa -- and that the name Cardozo is a common Portugese surname.
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Originally Posted by SWTXBelle
Eh, these same people think they speak Spanish in Brazil!
eta - wait, aren't Brazilians considered hispanic? Now I've confused myself . .. so, slightly off-topic - what is required to be labeled "hispanic"?
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Per the dictionary:
Hispanic = Of or relating to Spain or Spanish-speaking Latin America; of or relating to a Spanish-speaking people or culture.
Brazil would be Latin American but not Hispanic.
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