Dear Log,
«"We don't want to be Latin in that pejorative way," the head of a fashionable thinktank told me.»
Amazing how words for ethnic groups (or groups-of-groups) get tossed around with little or no sense. The Americas south of the US are called "Latin America" even tho most of it is about as Latin as New Guinea is. France flirts with this idea of "etre latin". I never cease to be amazed at how many "Arab" countries there are, as if the Arabian penninsula suddenly swelled astonishingly. And I always grind my teeth when I hear French people refer to "Anglo-Saxons" when they mean "English-speakers".
Not that it doesn't grind my teeth too (and I possibly hear it much more often than you do
