Latinhood

My Mexican friend Lizbeth seems to like Esperanto, a language which makes her happy whenever I use it. She thinks that being an Esperantist is still like "Latinhood" for me, who was born in the Philippines, which was a "lost colony" for Hispanics.

Being very light-complexioned and speaking English very well, I determined that I was going to assert my 'Latinhood' and grew a moustache and long sideburns at a time when everyone was neatly trimmed."

The newly discovered Latin connection strengthened the national consciousness of the Rumanians, who successfully employed their Latinhood in their struggles.

The United States is discursively positioned as an extension of America, the Spanish-Americas, so that its "Latinhood" becomes foregrounded (i.e. why not to think of the United States in terms of its Hispanic heritage?) .

I have all these people these guiros all these aguacates this prescribed latinhood this Hispaniard name that doesn't agree with English only 5.

[...] from the meditating warriors who held still at the foot of the dunes; in short, from these interior Arabs who constituted us, who relieved and surpassed us, and to whom we owe the Greek baptism of our vulgar Latinhood.