Camilla is miscast as latin...

well she's half Brazilian, so she's part Latino

since most of America is turning Latino now, it can only benefit her

Brazilians are not Latinos.

Latino is synonymous with being Hispanic and speaking Spanish. Brazilians never spoke Spanish and never had hispanic/latin culture.

gilosampaio is right: she really went the wrong way. She, an American from Brazilian ancestry will become a caricature of Latin.

Pathetic.

When I see her, I think beautiful French girl, nothing else, really.

Brazil is considered Latino/hispanic.

Americans and Latins know nothing about Brazil. And when they "know", know mistakenly, confusing us with what we never were: Latins (or Hispanics).

Only now, in the 21st century, the press in English, for example, "discovered" that Brazil has never in its history spoke Spanish.

Ethnically, Belle is American-Brazilian (American father / Brazilian mother). She is not Latina. She has influenced by American culture and Brazilian culture.

The culture of Brazil is so different from the culture of Latin countries, like India's culture is different from the culture of China.

Visually, the Brazilians are very different from Mexicans, Argentines, Chileans, Bolivians, etc.. It is another people, ethnically, culturally and of course, linguistically. Neither the food of the day-to-day of the Brazilians is similar to the Latin's food.

It's not because Portuguese is a language derived from Latin that Brazil is "atin" - this is simpleton. Nobody calls Portugueses, Angolans, Frenchs as "latins" although they speak a Latin language...

Latin is associated to be Hispanic, speaking Spanih and have a hispanic culture.

Brazil never was or had that thing. We are Lusophones, not Latins. Brazilian have its own culture and people. It's a region itself: the Portuguese America.

gilosampaio is right: Belle really went the wrong way. She, an American from Brazilian ancestry will become a caricature of Latin. Regrettable. Waste of talent.

You're absolutely wrong. In academic circles, Brazil is considered geographically part of Latin America. Just because you were colonized by the Portuguese doesn't make it any different. Surinam and Belize are also considered part of Latin America... even though they were colonized by the Dutch and British.

You're logic is that of a simpleton.

And all romance languages are derived from latin. Hence showing why your logic is even more silly and ridiculous. Stop trying to set yourself apart from other countries in Latin America. It just shows how xenophobic and ignorant you really are.

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She is not "ethnically" Iberian because this term is related to Iberian Peninsula (Portugal + Spain) and the Brazilians have not Spanish ancestry, only Portuguese one. Over 90% of Brazilians are of Portuguese descent, without any link with Spain. Here in Brazil there was never a Spanish colonization, only Portuguese. There was a small French and Dutch invasions in Brazil's Northeast, which left some descendants and, of course, a huge "importation" of slaves from Africa.

Spain colonized the Hispanic America (the actual Latin America). The Spaniards left descendants there, not in Brazil.

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What a bunch of hypocrites and camouflaged racists we see here! If Camilla was an American actress of Brazilian origin, black or mulata!, no one of these Latins - I assume they are largely Latins - would not come here "to fight over her." They try to steal her cultural identity because she is white, with light eyes.

Unfortunately what characterizes many of Latins is a extreme complex and jealousy.

Well, you must know that Brazil is the most racially mixed country in the world. Almost all of us Brazilians have indian and black DNA (besides the Portuguese one). And on the contrary of Mexicans, Argentines, Chileans, and other Hispanics, who are "proud" of not having blacks (which is true), we Brazilians are proud of being half black, half bndian and half Portuguese. This is what made us and this is what we are. And we always were Brazilians, we never were Latins, which is a term related to being Hispanic.

My god, the ignorance.