♥ I'm so glad you're enjoying these! I love them a lot! I have started going through the series from the beginning; this time in audiobook form. I'm mostly listening during my commute, so I'm still in The Lightning Thief.
I'm one of the nonnies who commented on the WIP thread; before I saw this post, I wondered whether you might be the writer!
I join you in having ALL THE FEELINGS about Luke; this is actually the first time I've reread the whole series, and revisiting the early days, knowing how things will end, I keep getting stabbed in the heart.
Jason grows on you - or at least he did on me! - though I always want more of Talia!
Bearing in mind that I do not identify as Hispanic, and therefore might be missing some subtleties: in the US Hispanic most broadly means someone has cultural/heritage ties to countries/regions that were more subject to/influenced by Spanish colonial rule than any of the other European powers of the time. Things like speaking Spanish as a primary language, identifying as Latino/a, and/or with Caribbean or Central or South American cultures can be part of being Hispanic.
The way it's defined for purposes of the census and government statistics considers being Hispanic or non-Hispanic as a separate question from race, but for a lot of Americans in their day-to-day, it's also sometimes treated as a racial/ethnic category that includes people with some mixture of European, Indigenous American, and African ancestry.
Basically, it makes sense that you're not sure what US writers mean when they say "Hispanic", because they probably all mean different things. Like, I think different people would give different answers about whether a white family with roots in Spain would be considered Hispanic. I think Leo would be considered Hispanic by someone working from either definition.
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Date: 2014-07-03 04:05 am (UTC)I'm one of the nonnies who commented on the WIP thread; before I saw this post, I wondered whether you might be the writer!
I join you in having ALL THE FEELINGS about Luke; this is actually the first time I've reread the whole series, and revisiting the early days, knowing how things will end, I keep getting stabbed in the heart.
Jason grows on you - or at least he did on me! - though I always want more of Talia!
Bearing in mind that I do not identify as Hispanic, and therefore might be missing some subtleties: in the US Hispanic most broadly means someone has cultural/heritage ties to countries/regions that were more subject to/influenced by Spanish colonial rule than any of the other European powers of the time. Things like speaking Spanish as a primary language, identifying as Latino/a, and/or with Caribbean or Central or South American cultures can be part of being Hispanic.
The way it's defined for purposes of the census and government statistics considers being Hispanic or non-Hispanic as a separate question from race, but for a lot of Americans in their day-to-day, it's also sometimes treated as a racial/ethnic category that includes people with some mixture of European, Indigenous American, and African ancestry.
Basically, it makes sense that you're not sure what US writers mean when they say "Hispanic", because they probably all mean different things. Like, I think different people would give different answers about whether a white family with roots in Spain would be considered Hispanic. I think Leo would be considered Hispanic by someone working from either definition.
/tl;dr answer to question you didn't ask