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To: The UK Government and Parliament, local and national authorities and institutions.
UK to recognise its 1 million + Spanish & Portuguese speakers.
We are requesting the official recognition nationwide in all ethnic monitoring forms of the UK's community, rooted in the Spanish and Portuguese speaking countries together with an official History Month (Amigo Month), similar as approved by the current Prime Minister when Mayor of London and is still valid in London..
Why is this important?
Latin; Iberian; Hispanic; Lusophone; South/Central or Native American; Spanish; Portuguese; Brazilian; Luso-African and Hispanic or Luso Asian peoples together are the UK's largest ethnolinguistic minority. They do not want to be considered as “others”, but as one block as happens now within the Greater London Authority, and also in the USA where 60 million of them have an official heritage month to celebrate their rich culture and contributions, and can tick a special census category as well as their own national identity.
According to official data from the ONS, HO and FO there are more than 1 million UK residents born in Ibero America and the Spanish and Portuguese speaking nations without counting their descendents. They constitute a very significant community who has been contributing to Britain from many centuries and they deserved to be recognized in all monitoring forms and having a History Month.
