What is Latino/Hispanic?

What does "Latino" or "Hispanic" "look" like? You might be surprised.

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• Latino
• Hispanic
• Spanish
• culture
• spaans
• espanol
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• language
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• race
• heritage

[IslenoGutierrez]

@lookagain77 True. The French named the Caribbean, Central America and South America "Latin America" (Amerique Latine). The reason for it was political like you said. It was named "Latin America", because the French wanted in the colonization game in the Americas, and because the Spanish and Portuguese were already there and were part of the Latin European ethnicity just like the French, the French named it Latin America to make it seem that it was ok for them being fellow Latins to enter in.

[IslenoGutierrez]

Here is my prediction for the United States: The large white population will begin to mix with the Latino (mostly mestizo) population to create a majority mixed race castizo population of 3/4 white/1/4 Native American. There will be minority populations of whites, blacks, Asians, Arabs and mulattoes. There will be a minority of multiracial people also. Some whites will white flight out of the U.S., but some will remain. Some blacks will remain, some will be mixed into the castizos.

[bajanboy883]

We come in all colors, to be honest most of us are all in one

[JSornon]

there are

[JSornon]

there 4 four races, white(europeean),black(african­), red(american indians), and yellow(asian). hispanic is not a race!

[BrooklynRalph]

Hiyperthetically speaking, if the U.S. Census Bureau decided that they were to start refering to "Spanish speakers" as "Idiots," but insteard, decided to use the Spanish language word, "idiotas," would Hispanic people just go along with the suggested category? Do people really think that by referring to Hispanics by the Spanish language word, "Latino" somehow changes the meaning of the word, "Latin?"

[BrooklynRalph]

For many years, the U.S. Census Bureau encouraged the use of a non-existent racial category that applies only to Hispanics: The "Latino" Race.

[HughJass370]

STUPID-ASS SHITHEADS FROM THE NEWS...THEY DON'T KNOW SHIT!!! , MEXICAN ISN'T A RACE ITS A NATIONALITY!!! YOU CAN BE WHITE AND BE MEXICAN OR EVEN BLACK!!!