What's wrong with California?

[wetibbe]

I don't know the exact lineage of my Puerto Rican network partner but judging from her language she surely was born in the USA , By clarification she has a man. I'm not in any way involved other than a friend and partner.

FYI my spouse of over 50 years was Spanish by birth, She became a French National. My son was born, providentially, in Las Palmas, Gran Canary, Spain and my daughter in Pau France. My wife was a Catalan whose ancestors dated back 26,000, years to Iberian culture. Catalan was 90%b Latin.

Just for clarification I want to amplify again my exact distinction between the good and decent people of so called Latin America and the dregs of society that are flooding in here presently. The good and decent people do not jump the border.

[Jeanfromfillmore]

I find it amusing that most of my closest (in linage) relatives were born and still live in Brazil. I don't consider them Latino, they are from my grandmother's side who was originally from Poland. She remarried when my grandfather, who was Irish, died while they lived in New York. She was quite a bit younger than my grandfather and later married and had two more children with her new Brazilian husband. They don't have any Spanish or Indian in them, just the same as many other who live in all of the countries south of the USA. They're just Brazilians.

[wetibbe]

I lived in South America back in the 1960's. Then in the 1980's I was a special representative for a major manufacturer of mining and drilling equipment. I was down there 2 weeks of every month for 3 years and visited 32 countries.

Every country is different. Brazil has a history similar to the USA except that it was populated by Portuguese and the language is Portuguese. Portugal BTW is also Iberico same as Spain. From my observations Brazilians would speak to Spanish speakers and the Spanish speakers spoke back in Spanish and everyone understood just fine. Argentina was populated by English and Italians and parts of Buenos Aires looks like Paris, France. Virtually all of the original native Americans were exterminated as were they in Chile. Paraguay has a very large German population. Bolivia is predominately native Indian. The Guyana's were British and French. Colombia speaks a good Spanish similar to Spain, populated by a mixture of various cultures. During my time in Venezuela the white Venezuelans were more racist than we were here. After WW2 Italians came flooding into Venezuela in droves. They were everywhere taking jobs. The Government started sweeps, banging on doors and trucking them down to LaGuaira, the port, sending them back on ships.