If you live in a European country with romance language please come here

portuguese is my mother language. Would never consider myself latin in anyway.I identify myself as macaronesian.

does anyone identify themselves as latin? i doubt it. they identify as their nationality. would they even identify themselves as european? Perhaps if you want to say which continent are you from

i don't fit to your criteria but i had to comment lol

alexS  Alex_Murphy

Tbh I never really thought about it, but I'm leaning towards no.

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Italians consider themselves Latin... but that's understandable since that is where it originated.

the question is if they identify themselves as latin or latin european and they don't

Do Italians consider themselves Latin and European or only European?

Answer (1 of 12): In Italy "Latin" is generally understood to refer to a dead language. In the very rare cases where it refers to a population it is understood…

www.quora.com

i know it's quora but i was lazy to search for for other sources

alex is romanian, alex is french, they'll tell you the same. sadly i don't remember who is portugese, italian and spanish, otherwise i would have tagged them.

"Italians are strongly Italian and strongly European…it is one entity, one concept while at the same time being different. The exact opposite would be in the US where there are a plethora of Identity labels; ethic, gender, orientation. Not the case in Italy or in Europe for that matter."

"This question doesn’t make sense. We are Europeans, period. Latin is a dead language we used to speak whilst our ancestors, the Romans, were conquering and ruling all over Europe. Our language has its roots in the latin languages, but it has many other peculiarities related with other languages and influences."

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Latin as in historical ethnicity yes, but of course they are Italians first. Europeans as a whole are way more nationalistic - which I attribute to their societies NOT being melting pots like over in the "new world".

exactly. my country has minorities and they are all white: hungarians, slovaks, croatians, vlachs... even if they are 3rd, 4th or whatever generation they will always be those nationalities. they identify as such and we identify them as such, even tho they have citizenship. there's no hungaro-serbian, which would be american version, they are just hungarian

we derailed the thread lol

to get back at the topic: nobody here identifies as latin anything. when you say latin you mean the language

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They are all Romance languages. As in derivatives from Latin.

Do I identify as latin?

Yes? Maybe? I think so?

you'd identify yourself as latin and or latin european i talked to didi about this and she said she doesn't, she's just romanian

I think this might be one of those American concepts that hardly anybody in Europe really "gets".

Here in Europe Latin is a language not an ethnicity or identity. And the language Latin was spoken in the Roman Empire, not the Latin Empire. I don't know. I've never even heard the term Latin Europe before. I feel very confused right now.

I'm Romanian and no, I don't identify myself as "Latin", at least not in the way US people think about it.

I identify as Romanian and maybe, just maybe, with Roman ancestry, as it's in our history.

However, no, just having a Latin-based language doesn't make me identify as anything else than Romanian.

I don't think Latin or Latin European is a thing here, to be honest.

I'm portuguese.

No, it's not very common to see someone refers to themselves as latin.

I'm italian, I don't consider myself latin and no one here does. Latin is seen as a language family, not an ethnicity