Talk:Luso-American

message: Can someone help me understand where Cape Verdean fit into the discussion?
This article is about LUSO-American (what includes Brazilians) and not only PORTUGUESE-American.--Leonardo Alves 19:32, 5 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: actually, i've heard that there are people of portuguese descent in brazil. it seems to me that kind of complicated things a bit. Gringo300 04:40, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

message: I removed the following line from the list of people:
* John Wilkes Booth, Actor and Abraham Lincoln's murder. Sephardi of Portuguese roots
I quickly checked his page, as well as his father's. Nowhere is there any occurrence of the strings "luso", "jew", "sephard" or "portug". All of his ancestors and relatives mentioned in these pages seem to be from Great Britain. Maybe there's something on his mother's side, and she doesn't have a page, but the little information we have (her name, for example) doesn't seem to hint at anything luso. It seems like if it is true he has Portuguese roots, those are distant and not enough to classify him as a "Luso-American". 
Of course I only did a quick scan of those articles, and did not do any research outside of that. Feel free to reinsert the line if you know otherwise. Oh, I almost forgot; if you do that, please fix "murderER". --Cotoco 19:04, 5 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: John Wilkes Booth

message: Merged from Portuguese in the United States... Please review. - Ekevu (talk) 01:13, 27 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: It's to be consistent with other articles, such as German American or Irish American or Chinese American. Those aren't hyphenated.  See : Category:Ethnic groups in the United States, where many (perhaps most, although not all) are not hyphenated.  --Mark Adler (Markles) 05:40, 27 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Merge

message: besides his last name, is there any evidence that he's of Portuguese descent?  Streamless 19:29, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: i don't think that qualifies as verifying your assertion. Streamless 19:21, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Mark Teixeira

message: *Tom Hanks - not sure why people think his mother is of Portuguese descent. I've read a book bio that had a long family tree, and there was nothing remotely Portuguese sounding about any of his ancestors. Does anyone have a good source?
*Sam Mendes - as far as I know, not an American
*Also - is there any way to get "Portuguese" in the title of this page? Most people browing these pages would recognize "Portuguese" over "Luzo". JackO'Lantern 07:54, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Names I removed

message: Would anyone mind if I changed the title of the list (but not the article) to "List of Americans of Portuguese and Luslo descent"? It's just there's been a big discussion lately on these ethnicity lists, and listing people with more distant ancestry - even less then both parents - who may not consider themselves "xxx-Americans". "Americans of xxx descent" would allow for no particular standards of inclusion to be needed. Mad Jack O'Lantern 07:48, 17 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm also going to source the list. Mad Jack O'Lantern 07:48, 17 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Also, could be a good idea to create a few separate lists (i.e. all on this page) - one for people of direct Portuguese descent, another for Brazilian, etc. Mad Jack O'Lantern 07:53, 17 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Title of list

message: Sean Paul is listed as "Caribbean." While he is in fact from Jamaica, he is of Sephardic descent and should probably be in that category instead. Misterdoe (talk) 16:26, 8 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Sean Paul

message: And unless it's been removed, there's no record of this having ever been discussed here. SamEV (talk) 03:31, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Why are the Sephardi listed separately?

message: A user has removed large sections of this article that refer to Brazilians and Jews because referring to such persons as "Luso" was "very offensive to [his] ethnicity" (see here: ). As far as I'm concerned, both groups qualify as "luso" because they have Portuguese ancestry and also speak Portuguese. Does anyone object to reverting these changes and adding back in references to Brazilians and Jews?Goodsdrew (talk) 00:13, 26 November 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Seeing as how no objection has been expressed, I'm reverting back to the version including Brazilians and Jews.Goodsdrew (talk) 15:35, 4 December 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Removal of references to Brazilians and Jews

message: I'm not sure I follow the recent edit war, but both versons seem to have a similar problem in the lead; how can people who aren't American be Luso-Americans? Pinkbeast (talk) 17:03, 11 December 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: I think you're right. I've edited the lead to clarify whom "Luso-American" refers and cut down and clarify the explanation of the origin of the term "Luso."Goodsdrew (talk) 16:44, 12 December 2013 (UTC)

text: Virtualtyper, you don't need to refer to me in the third person. I am a part of this conversation. And on the substance, I'm sorry, but you're just wrong. An American of English ancestry is certainly an Anglo-American. A Brazilian of Portuguese ancestry is certainly a Luso-Brazilian. Do you disagree? If that Brazilian person of PORTUGUESE ancestry moves to the United States, that person could certainly be called a Luso-American, couldn't they? Please explain to me why a Brazilian of Portuguese ancestry would not qualify as a Luso-American. Same for Jews. You have also removed reference to Jews in America of Portuguese descent. Are you seriously trying to say that Jews from Portugal are not "really" Portuguese and this don't qualify to be called "Luso"? That is pure anti-semitism. Unless you can justify an answer to these questions, then Brazilians and Jews certainly should be included in the article.Goodsdrew (talk) 15:48, 13 December 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  -American? 

message: "Luso" restrictively identifies a Portuguese person.
Just like "Anglo" restrictively identifies an English person.
WRONG....Lusophone
 
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Related to Lusophone: Hispanophone 
Lu·so·phone
 or lu·so·phone   (lo͞o′sə-fōn′)
n.
 A Portuguese-speaking person, especially in a region where two or more languages are spoken.
adj.
 Portuguese-speaking.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.6.42.213 (talk) 03:10, 14 March 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Luso is synonymous to Portuguese 

message: The arguments limiting "Luso" to Portugal don't really seem to hold water. See, for example this literary anthology:
Luso-American literature : writings by Portuguese-speaking authors in North America / edited and with an Introduction by Robert Henry Moser and Antonio Luciano de Andrade Tosta ; foreword by George Monteiro. New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2011.  ISBN 9780813550572.  The contents of this anthology are: Portuguese voices -- Brazilian voices -- Cape Verdean voices.  Clearly the editors interpret "Luso-American" to be any Portuguese-speaking Americans. AdamSeattle (talk) 00:09, 18 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Luso is not synonymous to Portugal