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The 1970 United States census controversially broadened the definition to "a person of Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, Dominican, South or Central American, or other Spanish culture or origin, regardless of race". This is now the common formal and colloquial definition of the term within the United States, outside of New Mexico.
The construction of race in Latin America is different from, for example, the model found in the United States, possibly because race mixing has been a common practice since the early colonial period, whereas in the United States it has generally been avoided or severely sanctioned. [4]
The Monumento a La Raza at Avenida de los Insurgentes, Mexico City (inaugurated 12 October 1940) Flag of the Hispanic People. In Mexico, the Spanish expression la Raza [1] ('the people' [2] or 'the community'; [3] literal translation: 'the race' [2]) has historically been used to refer to the mixed-race populations (primarily though not always exclusively in the Western Hemisphere), [4 ...
Gente de razón (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈxente ðe raˈθon], "people of reason" or "rational people") is a Spanish term used in colonial Spanish America and modern Hispanic America to refer to people who were culturally Hispanicized. It was a social distinction that existed alongside the racial categories of the sistema de castas.
In 1980, the full population was asked about "Spanish/Hispanic origin or descent" identifying three nationalities ("Mexican, Mexican-American, Chicano"). [15] Thereafter "Latino" was classified solely as an ethnicity separate from race. [16] In 2000, the US Census Bureau allowed persons to check multiple race identifiers. [17]
Mestizo (/ m ɛ ˈ s t iː z oʊ, m ɪ ˈ-/ mest-EE-zoh, mist-, [1] [2] Spanish: or; fem. mestiza, literally 'mixed person') is a person of mixed heritage, In certain regions such as Latin America, it may also refer to people who are culturally European even though their ancestors were Indigenous American, or African. [3]
A 2021 study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) journal found that Spanish ancestry is present in only 2% of the entire Filipino population. Ultimately, the ...
Latin Americans are a pan-ethnicity consisting of people of different ethnic and national backgrounds. As a result, some Latin Americans do not take their nationality as an ethnicity , but identify themselves with a combination of their nationality , ethnicity and their ancestral origins. [ 19 ]