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Originally Posted by bELyVIS
Hispanic means that the roots came from Spain. If you look at history all of these countries they were started by Spanish settlers coming from Spain. Of course they mixed with the local natives, but all Spanish speaking countries natives outside of Spain ( in Spain they are Spanish) are refereed to as Hispanic. Even the U.S. government classifys them as Hispanic.(Technically White of Hispanic origin)
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We were also once referred to as Negros by the US government. That was wrong, so we fought for a change. With Sotomayor, hopefully it'll be easier to fight for basic Latino rights as well.
Hispanic refers to people who are Spanish - as in, from Spain. Latino refers to people who are from Latin America.
Latino: (Capital “L,” with “a” or “o” at the end used to connote gender.) Politically correct term for those from Spanish or Portuguese speaking cultures. “We use it instead of Hispanic when we want to refer to many different national groups where there has been an indigenous-European mix,” says Sen.