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Yeah and my dad (Brazilian) is fond of saying that Brazil is not a Latin American country because of language and cultural divide between Spanish vs Portuguese colonies.

Fine, both of those are valid beliefs. But you shouldn't feel the need to inject them as a tangent in random conversations to educate people. You will never ever win this battle.



But Pakistan is not a Middle Eastern country. It's not a belief, it's a fact. I think he was right to point that out.


Names are human constructs not facts.




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